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Variations to escalations?

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Caveman Krogg
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2015-03-28 05:41:51 UTC
Hey all, sorry if there's already a post about this, it wasn't showing up very easily so I went with ignorance. Alright, I need some help settling a bet so to speak. Every time that I've run an escalation of the same name, they have acted precisely the same down to the spawns and spawn timers. For the purpose of this discussion, let's use True Power HQ part 1.

Single room, no gate.

Spawn 1

Small group on warpin, with more spawning shortly after.

11 Frigates
12 Cruiser/BC mix
3 BS
3 Sansha Miner
1 True Sansha BS.
Spawn 2

Approaching the Ripped Superstructure spawned:

1 Named BS (Isiura Tuurento)
2 Cruise Missile Battery
The Named BS had no special loot. Killing the TS BS escalate next site.

Now I can confirm that the last several times I've run this one, it has always acted the same. Upon warp in, all the ships listed as initial spawn are on grid and the others warp in just as the timers say they will. Here's the issue, however. I had an escalation fail to give me a listed spawn last week and every other time I've run it, it has, like the True Power HQ, always behaved the same, with the exception of this last time. I'm under the impression that it was a bug (I ran that escalation a few hours after Scylla went live, empty wrecks anyone?) so I'm still pretty adamant that escalations will behave a set way and have no other variations possible. IE, if you pull an Escalation in Catch or Providence, it's going to be the same thing.

I need people's feedback on this, however. I need to know if I've just been insanely lucky and never had a variation or if it's possible. I've got money riding on this, maybe I split with pilots who help =p
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#2 - 2015-03-28 05:45:09 UTC
Named/Faction spawns are normally not 100%, can't answer that specific one. But you may just be lucky.
Some have two or three variations also.
Caveman Krogg
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2015-03-28 05:52:40 UTC
Huh, really? I was always told to do True Power part 1 because the TS bs always being there. I mean, I suppose it's possible that the faction ship doesn't have to show up, just never heard of that happening.
Eve Solecist
Shitt Outta Luck - GANKING4GOOD
#4 - 2015-03-28 07:42:27 UTC
Does ... by pure coincidence and random chance ... your neck hurt a bit? :/
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Caveman Krogg
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2015-03-28 11:17:49 UTC
Well now that you mention it, I did take a spill down some stairs last week but I figured I was fine. Why, are there bruises?
Tisiphone Dira
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2015-03-28 11:31:46 UTC
Looks fine to me

There once was a ganker named tisi

A stunningly beautiful missy

To gank a gross miner

There is nothing finer, cept when they get all pissy
Caveman Krogg
State War Academy
Caldari State
#7 - 2015-03-28 11:37:43 UTC
Can we be BFFs now?
HiltoftheDragons
Grievance3
#8 - 2015-03-28 12:24:57 UTC
Eve Solecist wrote:
Does ... by pure coincidence and random chance ... your neck hurt a bit? :/


Now that you mention it....that does look a bit painful.

Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.
Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#9 - 2015-03-28 12:41:29 UTC
Tisiphone Dira wrote:
Looks fine to me



Hm, I wonder why...

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Serene Repose
#10 - 2015-03-28 15:11:11 UTC
You got lucky, kid. Cool

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Hippinse
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2015-03-28 21:49:38 UTC
For purely onomatopoeic reasons, I want to shun this thread.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#12 - 2015-03-28 21:55:23 UTC
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Eve Solecist
Shitt Outta Luck - GANKING4GOOD
#13 - 2015-03-29 09:52:30 UTC
Tisiphone Dira wrote:
Looks fine to me

ROFL!

And I'm really sorry for apparently having killed this thread.

It was just too ... hell, way too tempting! :)
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