Missions & Complexes

Did anyone notice anything differen't today? I was doing my usual blitzing through these burner missions when I came upon the Gurista (worm) burner mission. I use a daredevil for this particular mission and keep the target at a specific range (in this case my optimal is 1.5km so I keep at range 1.5km) after I have shut off its mwd. So I mwd in and scram its mwd and use my keep at range key to order my ship to keep at range 1.5km. Insta popped. Now typically that worm will insta pop my specific fit if you fail to get very close to it (1.5km usually does pretty well on the damage.) after two volleys. So I just assume maybe I messed up, didnt OH a hardener and just got unlucky with a crazy volley or something. I come back with another daredevil and this time double check my hardeners are both OH, my warp scram is OH. everything is good to go. Turn on all my modules and keep at range 1.5km this time I get it and im tanking it for a good amount of time, and i notice something is off. Im not doing my usual amount of damage and im taking MORE damage than usual. This is when I notice that my ship, despite being vastly faster than the worm, is staying at around 3km range. This is obviously very bad because the worm does massive damage at that range. so I go to look at my default keep at range setting, its 1.5km like I want it, I try 500m and still it keeps at 3km. I make sure my mwd is working (it is) and my speed bar is obviously huge because the mwd is on and it has PLENTY of room to increase its speed but it will not keep at anything other than 3km. So I pop again. Third times the charm right? This time i set to 500m, get everything right, and again it stays at 3km even when keep at range is 500m with plenty of speed for it to increase to close that distance. The enemy is only moving at around 360 m/s when im moving at 4k+ so I'm massively confused at this point and I manually click my speed on the speed bar down there to 500, and only then does it close the gap closer than 3km. I complete the mission after losing around 200 million isk for the two daredevils. Was there some mechanic change behind the "keep at range" command or something recently?

TL:DR: Was the "keep at range" command changed in any way recently?

Not really. If you turn off the mwd you are moving at around the same speed of the target, and youll be dead long before you can get to the range you want. I figured it out although ive never had to do this before. Basically I just pulse the mwd with the command active, this forces the ship to accelerate and close the distance because of the burst of speed. For some reason I can't get this keep at range command to work in this mission anymore. I don't know why this started happening, never had an issue with it before. Costed me quite a bit to learn this new lesson though.

The worm burner uses missiles. Missiles' damage applied depends on the target's sig radius. MWD blows your sig radius way up, especially so on unbonussed ships like T1 and pirate ships. However, speed reduces the damage dealt by missiles. This is why on the approach to the burner worm, so long as have the hardners on and OH and the rep going you'll be fine. The problem is as soon as you reach your target you need to turn off your MWD or you will take full damage from the missiles because you're no longer speed tanking them. Sometimes you'll have outpaced a volley or two and having a couple volleys hit you at once with your MWD on but your ship effectively standing still means you'll go insta pop.

Another side affect of trying to keep at range while running an MWD is that you tend to follow at a longer range than you actually set. This is because of your speed with the MWD. It's just how it is. Once you're within scram range of the worm you need to turn your MWD off or you will die and you will not be able to get in a stable following range.

Well I'm having no issues with it at all. Still working as it has done, so nothing apparent wrong with the keep at range.

You just need to burn at it, click keep at range, land scram kill mwd. Job done. You may be a little away from it but the gap is easily closed without the need to pulse the mwd.

I recently took a look at mission running. So far I ran ~50 missions on SISI, finalizing fits suited for my SP etc. I want to get some input on agent-standings:

So far I was able maintain my standing for SOE by running only burner missions and recon. Has this been plain luck or can people with more experience confirm this?

While running for empire factions, i got considerably more non-burner missions. For empire corps I was not able to keep my agent standing above -2 by running only burners. Has this been bad luck or can people with more experience confirm this?

Updated the guide to v1.2

Quite a few changes came with the recent update to Eve so I felt a bit bad about leaving the guide with as much bad info as it had. Also I got to use it as an excuse to go shoot goons on my alt. grrgons.

Thanks for everyone who sent mails on corrections and info. I really appreciate it

The only place where it *might* have any use at all would be The Assault on the Barghest and even then I think a normal web or even paint might be better.

Anize, just a suggestion for ammunition on the Garmur fit vs. the Team Jaguar. In my experience I've found that it's better to just orbit @25km and wait about 10 seconds for all targets to settle into their orbits - then you can just use standard Caldari Navy Mjolnir rockets instead of Mjolnir Javelin. The initial wait is easily offset by the decreased time to kill the Burner Bursts.

Perfect frigate and missile skills are a must for flying the Garmur. Light Missile Specialization V isn't necessarily required - but everything that relates to application and range definitely is. For those unwilling or unable to run missile implants, I offer the following modified fit. It requires a single Faction ballistic control system which allows you to run a T2 missile guidance enhancer. This bumps your range by 1-2km as well as adding 12% to your existing damage application.

Without any missile implants whatsoever I'm getting 229.5 DPS @31km (270 DPS @32km overheated). I've also tried this with a Faction target painter but I'm not sure there's a noticeable difference over the meta version. And you absolutely, positively need to fly it in red.

[Garmur, Red Baron]

Polarized Rocket Launcher, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket
Polarized Rocket Launcher, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket
Polarized Rocket Launcher, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket

Dread Guristas Ballistic Control System
Ballistic Control System II
Missile Guidance Enhancer II

5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive
Phased Scoped Target Painter
Missile Guidance Computer II, Missile Range Script
Missile Guidance Computer II, Missile Range Script

Small Hydraulic Bay Thrusters II
Small Rocket Fuel Cache Partition II
Small Warhead Flare Catalyst I

I've been debating that, actually. You may be on to something here - three MGCs could be the ticket.