Missions & Complexes

your options are limited. The blockade is a notoriously absurd mission when it comes to NPC ewar. If you can kill the ewar in the first wave or two it gets better.

Tracking disruption is also particularly crippling.

And NPC ewar isn't properly stacking penalized the way that multiple webs, painters, damps, or disruptors would be. Meaning a handful of ships will cripple your regardless of if you fit a few mods to counter them.

Except that when you are close enough to be in range you no longer have enough tracking to actually hit anything.

The only real solutions are to use a different weapon system or bring along an alt so at least one of the toons can kill some of the NPC ships.

Why does a toon that is going to live in null need standings anyway?

Plan #7
Quit this mission. Get the next mission from the agent.

Try as much range as you can get. Sniping. If you go with the close all the way in idea, consider using keep at range and speed control to reduce your trans velocities.

I liked this cause it involves the tracking formula and like td Ewar as well so I did some EFTwarrioring on this snowy afternoon. Hope nobody minds.

You didn't say what your flying so without drones or missiles I ruled out Caldari and Gallente. Kind of ruled out rails. Level 3's, I looked at BC's and looked for range bonused Minnie or or Amarr. What I found was the Tornado and another interesting ship I haven't flown. The Harbinger Navy issue. One has range bonus, the other tracking speed. Though I was looking for range, I like the tracking speed. :) Since its level 3 I stuck with a medium gun and came up with a Navy Harbinger. Looking up the specs on the tracking disruptor frigate know we need over 50 km range. http://npc.elfarto.com/view.php?id=24052

Seems that Focused medium beams with faction radio reach out right about where we need. No idea what your gunnery or fitting support skills are like, mine are 5's so your mileage will vary. Even though these td's are only 30% chance, lets assume like you say that 5 hit you???? What to do? Only thing we can, keep at optimal with a pulsed mw and start tossing on tracking computers and enhancers. They are the counter to td, Its certainly not 1 to 1 but then I ran the tracking sim against a frigate of similar speed and its coming up with 50-75% chance to hit with 2 td's applied (5TDs * 30% = 1.5 TD's applied) with tracking scripts depending on range. With my skills It rapidly drops off beyond optimal and your optimal will vary with how many TDs your hit with.

Still needs track proven but I know sniping is nice and is a laid back way to pop frigates and run missions btw.

Or If I missed the mark on the Amarr, try a Tornado But then you got those big guns resolution and slower tracking speed.

All you have to do is get within optimal of a TDing ship and then move towards it at the same speed as it orbits you. It will force the NPC to fly directly away from you so you get good hits.

Used to do that with a Pally (before the change) in the lvl4 version. it was slow but it worked. I also tried to snipe the TDing frigs before they argoed.

PS, drones are super useful.

Unless you are using a ship with 2X Webs or a bonused web you will pretty much be excluded from doing lvl4 missions (or at the very least it will be very very slow).

Spider drones are almost impossible to kill without drones or small guns and elite frigs are almost as bad (they do shoot light drones so you have to watch them)

I smell a trainie dread pilot ?