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By the way, after completing the Serpentis Burner mission for the agent in Frarn, any further attempt to ask for a mission results in the agent text "I'm sorry, but what I've got is promised to another pilot already. Could you come back later?" Is this expected for Singularity?


Why? Warping in on a target at zero to ambush it is a time-honored PvP tradition, I thought? :P

Just a silly question here, if they have 180 turrets on grid, spread far enough away to warp in between, but only 1 turret can shoot you at once...

Why the increased load on systems with that many turrets if only 1 of them are ever going to be utilized at the same time? Or is that a bug and they really want all 180 turrets to agro you at once?

I think the turrets are there so that you can warp to them.

Come to think of it, Large Collidable Objects would also have worked just as well for this purpose; skip the turrets entirely.

we've already discussed long time age why naga doesn't use cruises. also if you want to, you can fit naga with 250k optimal

I'm not sure if it was mentioned, but I'm assuming Strategic Cruisers are locked out despite being 'cruisers'? Edit: Followed one of the links and read that T3 Strategic Cruisers and T2 Command Ships are no-go.

From the write-ups thus far, these really don't seem like they should be called 'cruiser' burner missions - more like battlecruiser. Will we eventually see 'cruiser' missions (T3 destroyers, no T2 cruisers) and 'battleship' burner missions? (T3 cruisers, T2 Marauders)

Thanks for all the reports and feedback so far! I've updated the known issues in the op and I'm enabling the blood raiders mission now. Enjoy!

The new and improved prophecy has left me in despair.
The only difference is it's now doing 2K. Which is 1,7k faster than the ewar frigs. So it can now outrun them and helpfully rid you of tracking disruption. So you can run in your 1400mm nado to the end of the grid, get the burner stuck 250 off the beacon and sleep through the 1,5 DU RF clips required to grind through it's stupid buffer. All the while ewar frigs are slowly crawling to you 200km behind.

I pulled the proph tonight and his speed was more like 1200m/s in bursts and he orbited me at ~780m/s or so. Could be they nerfed the speed before I got online?

The dmg in the pocket seemed light, and his orbit range is outside his nos range, so he mostly just webbed me and my tank giggled with delight. I hate to ask CCP to up the damage, but in a t2 fit hull and no links/fleet running I can't say I was ever in great peril.

I threw several ships at him, trying to see how bad the disruptor really affected turreted ships. I ended up in a crappy fit Gila and brought him down.

I did run him off grid during the fight. That was kind of annoying when he suddenly insta-warped back to center and I had to re-engage.

The rats will attack medium drones but seemed to ignore lights.

Will be interesting to see where this fight goes as they iterate a bit. The first pass took some thought and contrasts nicely with the Talos - much less tank required, but much more dps necessary.

My full write-up (with a few pictures) is here: http://evedogsbreath.blogspot.com/2015/04/blood-raider-bc-burner-is-bested.html

Would it be possible to let Battleships in the Cruiser burner missions and Cruisers in the Frig burner missions with Zbikokis hacker cards. Being low skilled the burner missions are to difficult for me.

Hmm. I was talking about the Prophecy there. Will need to try again and give him more opportunity to hate on my light drones, but I didn't see him switch targets last night. He definitely loved to aggro my medium drones and webbed the snot out of them repeatedly.

Now that you mention it, though, I'm trying to remember if the Talos went after my Hobs the last time I ran them. I think they did, but will have to run it again to see if I see the same thing as you.

The early version of the Talos really hated drones, enough that you could launch drones and use them as bait to "tank" as you approached. The later version with triple Talos went after Hobs much less severely, making bait-tanking not nearly as viable. Probably a good thing, all in all.

(I'm posting this on 4-15, but haven't tried anything since yesterday; who knows what got patched in today...).


CCP: One thing I thought of after my last post was the disparity in bounty payout. Triple Talos is 5.5M x 3. Single Proph for 5.5M x 1. Oldskool Vanilla level 4's vary in payout by mission, sure, but that hadn't been our experience with burners so far. How set in stone are the bounties?