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The Cap escalation in C5 sites do not seem to work properly.

At warpin there are 3 Upgraded Avenger Battleships in addition to the first wave. While they are a bit tougher than the normal sleeper battleships, they are no real danger to any capital. Their DPS and energy neutralizing power is quite low, compared to the capital escalations on TQ. The only nasty thing about them is the fact that they seem to have unlimited tracking or something similar, because they eat fighters in seconds.

At the end a "Transmission Relay" decloaks and if you attack that, a Drifter Battleship spawns, sometimes an Apollo Tyrannos, sometimes an Artemis Tyrannos, seems to be random. But that Battleship just stands there with 0m/s and does nothing while you fire at the Transmission Relay. The relay has quite some hitpoints, so it takes a while to bring it down. Anyway, the Drifter just sits there and waits, it doesn't even attack the fighters.

Once the relay dies, there is a container with some Antikythera Elements and some Sleeper Loot parts (worth ~5 million ISK), but it takes around 15 minutes to kill it with a single carrier, probably not worth the kill, even if you have a capital group on field (sharing nothing is even less -_-)

When you begin to shoot the Drifter, it will orbit (1000m/s) and attack you, but the damage output is perfectly tankable for a solo carrier. It also has quite some hitpoints, but it warps off after a few minutes. My carrier never comes close to kill it but also is never in any danger while fighting him solo.

To be honest, the current capital escalation on TQ is by far more challenging and rewarding at the same time. The additional spawns damage output and neut pressure should be quite a bit higher. Rewards probably too, else there is little reason to bring capitals at all. For a group of capitals, the current ecalation feels quite weak.

Yeah, probably.

Did you check how much loot the Drifter BS has when you kill it?

Yeah I tested it again, 272M for a Core Stronghold + 300M for the Drifter.

The anomaly took 25min to finish, the Drifter took 35min to kill -_-

Didn't salvage.

Uhh, was out of touch with new eden for a while. What's the new movement interface binding for fighters again?
It was M or something. Is it Q now?
Because I have module activation binded to the WASD corner, so Q is my F1, and I can't seem to find the fighter navigation in bindings.

Ah, so the new movement interface replaces the old approach command and is unified for both ships and fighters?
Neat.

Or maybe not. Approach-Keeep At Range combo is quite useful for kiting ships with tracking issues (esp frigates because less time for mouseclicking stuff), so losing a quick approach (old-style) shortcut is kinda sad.

It's easier to single click the approach button than doubleclick a moving frigate in this case.

Still absolutely nada about FAXes. So I guess we'll get them "as is" and then we can hope they will be ballanced 2 years down the line? ;)

I'm not sure that is right topic for this question but...

In what pos structure we can make new t1 and t2 fighters? Cause dron assebly array on SiSi hasn't any information about fighters and Small Ship Assembly Array has standart info from TQ ("A mobile assembly facility where smaller ships such as Fighter and Fighter Bomber Drones...")

The new Doomsday weapons are terrible hard to aim with.

Its kinda confusing UI and the fact that you cant rotate the Camera while aiming, to check your target angle (espeacially the Reaper DDs) make it pure luck to hit or miss.

My first couple tries yesterday resulted in much laughter with my Corpies, when the Reaper DD fired off in the complete opposite direction or miss by 90°.

Maybe have something like keeping the clicking the module button to draw the line, while beeing able to rotate and move the camera without loosing the red preview line and clicking the module againt to confirm firing in the currently displayed vector.