Missions & Complexes

I'll keep this brief -

For those who don't know me, I'm the founder of Spectre Fleet - Eve's largest NPSI PvP Community.

Long story short, we're looking to form a public group (akin to the current HS incursion communities) that is capable of running the lowsec versions of these sites. The goal of this group is to take advantage of the bonus payouts from lowsec incursions, and beat the average income of a highsec incursion group without using multi-billion ISK pirate faction battleships.

We're going to be attempting a few fleets as a "Proof of Concept" and are looking for people who would be interested in making this a reality. We know running these sites is possible with a public group - we've already done so multiple times, in both low and null. However, now that we know we it can be done, we want to know if it can be done better than in highsec.

If you're interested in helping out, or simply brainstorming ideas, either send me a mail in game of reply to this post here.

For once i remembered a community spotlight where i saw the NPSI explained, if not in fleet shoot it:).
Source: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/community-spotlight-spectre-fleets/

Not Quite.

NPSI is Not Purple Shoot it - which essentially means public fleets, or more specifically people working together using the fleet mechanics even if they don't share a common corporation and alliance.

Vanguard sites are likely the ones that we would attempt first, as they are unique in that you can have more people in fleet and still receive the same payout. The great part is there is no increase in difficulty from highsec sites and lowsec sites, but there is a 50% increase in profit in both ISK and LP. Journal entry: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/w/images/9/91/Vanguard_rpr.PNG

It's still very early on, and we haven't decided on which ship we would make as the primary ship to complete this it. It would likely be shield, and the nightmare is currently a top contender. The specifics on that are still to be worked out.

Yes, obviously if you can still trump hs isk/h using T1 battleships, that would be optimal since you wouldn't be risking anything and fewer people would go out of their way to try and kill you. Rokhs would be my first guess on which ship would be able to do it the best.

Ahhhh, seems I missed that Community Spotlight.

Thanks for the answer.


Thanks for explaining it. Seems that old saying still holds true :
Even after playing this game for years you can still learn something new every day.



DMC

Shield or armor

Also what is to be done with long webs? Considering in HS VGs true sansha webs with links are used, and it's critical for npcs orbiting at 20. So are you going to include lokis with T2/M4 webs or pad fleets with huggins?

There was a fleet that did this, shady fleet. don't know what happened to them as I haven't heard in a while. if the FCs aren't stuck up or feel that they are gods gift to incursions, I may have an interest

sounds like fun to me.

looks like the full payout goes up to 16 pilots? and around 20 or so for the same payout as in the 12man highsec fleets. so can drop a lot of the shiny as you aren't worried about contests, and add another logi.

I guess the other question is how will the group handle pvp? I feel like that would be at least half the fun of such a venture. going out in 15-20 man battleship fleets. Also with current pirate BS prices I wouldn't really mind risking a few. After a few hours the ship is paid for. and if I make it that long and then get in a brawl the fun easily makes the isk part not matter.

plus maybe a few skynet carriers assisting fighters in system. not sure how incursion rats deal with fighters?

Fighters/FBs can't take acceleration gates - else they'd be whined about in FW as well as the typical gate camps.

In FW we've ran a few of these from time to time out of boredom and to bait fights in more expensive boats. Short of the occasional larger pirate entity coming at us (which we had plenty of warning, nearly a whole site's worth, given how rare battleship/T2 cruiser large fleets are and how quickly channels light when a group is noticed) it was fairly easy to run as long as everyone was on top of things and warped as a single unit, took gates as a unit, etc etc. We did run Vindi heavy for that dank web bonus, and our "drone bunny" was a Loki instead of the usual Vindi and they would have a scram fitted (purely as an anti-MJD slot...since the point was to web/scare off threats, not kill).


If you get into this expect to be hunted. Also expect me to tag along for help. +1 Scimi/Basi pilot with Logi V for you sir.

Thats a really great Avatar picture. You looke like a General, and I want to instinctively salute you. o7