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AFK Drone missioning
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Ireland VonVicious
Vicious Trading Company
#21 - 2014-03-12 00:24:49 UTC
AFK missions are long over.

It use to be easy money and the dominix was the perfect ship for it.

You will find that all of this effort into trying to do it with the current AI is useless.

They also "nerfed" the drone omni's as far as afk aspects are concerned.
It's a "buff" as far as pvp goes. Almost equal in other aspects.

Those of us who use to do it have already tried everything and it won't work.

If you are the one person to find the magic beans then enjoy but I really don't see that happening.
Kyperion
#22 - 2014-03-12 04:32:39 UTC
Lutya Seer wrote:
[Ishtar, AFK L3 Missions]
Capacitor Power Relay II
Capacitor Power Relay II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Corpum A-Type Medium Armor Repairer
Damage Control II

Republic Fleet 10MN Afterburner
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link, Tracking Speed Script
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link, Tracking Speed Script

Medium Remote Armor Repairer II
Medium Remote Armor Repairer II
Medium Remote Armor Repairer II
Medium Remote Armor Repairer II

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II

Garde II x4


I wonder if the Gardes above could track all the L3 frigates? They are the highest tracking sentry, add the Ishtar bonus and the tracking scripts and I'd like to think they'd do OK.

Only problem is I have no way to test the aforementioned fitting before spending ~2 months training it.


Without a range script your Gardes will only hit to maybe 60 km every now and again.... even level 3 rats put out enough DPS at that range to toast your tank

With an ishtar, repping your drones is a waste. First off, you should be at a range where the NPC's cant hit you anyway. Secondly if your fighting the longer range NPCs and they agro the sentries just scoop em up and redeploy, plays havoc with the AI ... also, a small gatling laser will be enough to pull agro, especially if you scoop em up for a ten count, while missing horribly with your ray of harmless-AI-trolling.

Give up the idea of just being able to warp in press a few buttons and leave.

If you want to be able to walk away from the PC for a few, you have to be able to get 100+ km away, manually kill the small stuff, and then maybe fix a sandwich or some coffee or a restroom break as they switch to the battleships.

IF you want the true AFK gameplay experience, go train Mining and Planetary interaction... both are very conducive to press a few buttons and only return hours later.

Also realize that if you do anything And ESPECIALLY mission running with pimped fits... the gankers will find you, and most likely your profit margin will be destroyed.

Seriously, why AFK? Skill up and your typical level 4 will only take a half hour max if you don't pick up the goodies. And it will be much more entertaining.

Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2014-03-12 10:26:47 UTC
Mining isn't that afk if you want better yields. PI is mainly AFK but be prepared for the trips to haul your stuff out of losec/null. PI is relatively passive income but to get the real benefits from it you do need to put some work in.
Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#24 - 2014-03-12 19:37:28 UTC
If you want to AFK, start a corp with a 5% tax rate and recruit some clueless minions .
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#25 - 2014-03-12 23:04:46 UTC
Kaivar Lancer wrote:
If you want to AFK, start a corp with a 5% tax rate and recruit some clueless minions .


.. and get some POCOs and POS happening.
Lyris Nairn
Perkone
Caldari State
#26 - 2014-03-16 20:05:27 UTC
Or move to nullsec, where AFK ratting is still en vogue.

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IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#27 - 2014-03-16 21:31:45 UTC
Froggy Storm wrote:
I believe there is mention of another hit against afk drones (by way of rat ai buff) mentioned in the release notes for 1.3 today. So afk missioning will (likely) be one step closer to impossible come tomorrow.


That sucks. I wish they just remove the "Aggressive" option instead of making drones terrible. This would eliminate the possibility of AFK missions and also allow drones to be effective for non AFK use.
Robert Morningstar
Morningstar Excavations LTD
Business Alliance of Manufacturers and Miners
#28 - 2014-03-18 00:08:38 UTC
do not try to afk

that said

DOMI

high

3* dcu II
3*425 rail gun II (I use tungsten ammo)

mids

2 * Omni II
sebo II range script
2 cap recharger II

lows
dcu II
drone damage augmentor II
Large armor rep II
one of each active hardner II

rigs
1 for the low resist hole
1 for rep amount
1 for rep rate

5 * bounder II
5 * garde II or ogres II
5 * hobgoblin II or Warrior II
3 * small armor rep
Ireland VonVicious
Vicious Trading Company
#29 - 2014-03-18 01:14:09 UTC
IIshira wrote:
Froggy Storm wrote:
I believe there is mention of another hit against afk drones (by way of rat ai buff) mentioned in the release notes for 1.3 today. So afk missioning will (likely) be one step closer to impossible come tomorrow.


That sucks. I wish they just remove the "Aggressive" option instead of making drones terrible. This would eliminate the possibility of AFK missions and also allow drones to be effective for non AFK use.


Drones are still incredibly effective.

It's not your drones that are the issue.
IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#30 - 2014-03-18 01:58:27 UTC
Ireland VonVicious wrote:
IIshira wrote:
Froggy Storm wrote:
I believe there is mention of another hit against afk drones (by way of rat ai buff) mentioned in the release notes for 1.3 today. So afk missioning will (likely) be one step closer to impossible come tomorrow.


That sucks. I wish they just remove the "Aggressive" option instead of making drones terrible. This would eliminate the possibility of AFK missions and also allow drones to be effective for non AFK use.


Drones are still incredibly effective.

It's not your drones that are the issue.



Of course I was referring to PVE

Sentry drones are still effective but they are not as they were before. Constantly recalling and launching them lowers your DPS.

Heavy drones are completely useless now.

If you're trying to say my skills are an issue unless they now allow training to level 6 that's not an issue.
Ireland VonVicious
Vicious Trading Company
#31 - 2014-03-18 02:03:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Ireland VonVicious
I was also referring to PvE.

Beserkers are still effective v.s. angels.

Garde's and curators for sentries. Still working fine.

You don't have to recall the entire flight of drones.

Does your ship not have guns or missiles?

My RS has zero issue and my drones rarely get any aggro in L4's.
dexington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#32 - 2014-03-18 02:23:11 UTC
IIshira wrote:
Heavy drones are completely useless now.


yeah, that is a little annoying... 2 set sentry drones are almost always better then bringing a set of heavies.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#33 - 2014-03-18 03:34:48 UTC
Ireland VonVicious wrote:
I was also referring to PvE.

Beserkers are still effective v.s. angels.

Garde's and curators for sentries. Still working fine.

You don't have to recall the entire flight of drones.

Does your ship not have guns or missiles?

My RS has zero issue and my drones rarely get any aggro in L4's.


Recalling one drone = 20% drone DPS loss. That's quite a bit being your main DPS.

Yes the RS has missiles and the Dominix has guns but you know 4-5 unbonused weapons isn't going to do much.
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#34 - 2014-03-18 12:20:35 UTC
People are still recalling drones or trying to figure out how to mount enough remote reps to afk in a drone boat?

AFKing in a drone ship is easier now than before 1 small remote rep in the highs reppingn one drone, one ewar mod (I use a Damp) in the mids targeted on a structure (NOT large collidable object) belonging to the npc faction (like "guristas wall" or a npc gun sentry) and boom, no aggro on drones. I've lost exactly 2 berserkers in the last few months doing that.
Desivo Delta Visseroff
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2014-03-18 15:51:21 UTC
Why bother even playing this game if you're not going to play the game while playing it???????

If missioning is so boring that you need to afk through it, then stop missioning and do something else in this game. If everything is boring, then just go find another hobby.

What's the point?

I was hunting for sick loot, but all I could get my hands on were 50 corpses[:|]..............[:=d]
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