EVE General Discussion

Sadly, it’s an event of owners of T2, T3 and Faction Cruisers with over 500 DPS!

The frigates are fast, but without enough DPS to clear sites fastly, while BC and BS are too slow for fast grind.

We know about “22.3% (2.3T) of the ISK was generated by 1.4% of characters earning bounties, using Supercarriers”, but this looks like “60% (XX B) of the ISK was generated by 5% of characters earning goodies, using T2, T3 and Faction Cruisers”.

I got some SKINS and, most importantly, a Rogue Swarm Accelerator, but other new bros are out of the game.

Considering my 250 DPS on my Vexor, I lost like 4 sites by being “outdpsed”. Just in case, after I cleared all drone waves someone jumps to the site and one shot the last boss just to drop the yellow can. I met players which passed the site which was already cleared also.

There should been three types of sites, based on their difficulty and rewards: Ligh, Medium and Heavy.

Just a word, if you’ll see a player on a bad ship clearing the site just leave him. Play in a greedy “White/Yellow” can if both of you cleared all the waves just for who’ll get the last “white” can, a 50/50% game.

O7

if this is anything like the Guardian's Gala (which it sounds like it is)... after a few days the competition will die down a lot. So will the profits as the market floods, but I was able to run through tons of the gala sites with very little interference after the first few days of the gala.

This will lock the new-bros out of the huge profits that people got in the first hours... but they actually have a shot at those if they're lucking and how else could they have made isk totaling in the billions for very small amounts of work. I think everyone will be able to get whatever skins they want by the time the 2 weeks is up... the think they miss out on is the super huge profits from selling skins to outstanding buy orders for stuff that's not rare anymore due to this event.

I don't think that's a problem. New-bros aren't supposed to rake in a couple of billion isk for a few hours of work. The fact that they could get lucky and still get that is a big plus for them.

Sadly... by the time I'm done with work that's gone for me too... and I'm not a newbro.

Its not really random, the better damage dealer will get the final can, and you don't need 500 DPS, i'm sitting in a confessor with half that DPS and still managing to clear the site with stupid ease and i can even contest the locals :P

The only things worth anything from this event are the accelerators, and those only have a shelf life of 16 days as they all expire on the 30th

You must have nice Alpha Strike on your Confessor.

Rogue Swarm is just something CCP has given us to do.

For the last event like this we had, Guardians ?, I tried a few different ships, and kept failing when there were other competing ships. I fitted a Golem to target very fast and apply damage. I only lost 2 out of 33 efforts.

With the Golem targeting fast and one shooting all the ships, all I had to do was get a tractor beam on the last ship, and no one could take it away. I ended up with about 30 skins that I really couldn't sell. So that was a waste of time and effort. It was fun, beating everyone else to the prize, but after a few days was just boring.

Now, the Rogue Swarm. Same thing. Except that after a couple of hours, it's already boring.

I read where someone said these were easier than the previous one. So, I took out a very large dps heavy missile Tengu.
It didn't do so well. I lost three skins to the group that I was competing against. So enough of that, I don't go for luck or chance of winning something.

Refitted the Golem, like I did for the Guardians, and in a group of challengers, I've already won 5/5, and it's already boring. Now I've got 5 skins, that I won't be able to sell, let alone give away because of a flooded market. I don't see the point now.

This is not something for destroyers, or cruisers. A Gila did pretty good. Tengu failed. Alphas will fail. If you're all by yourself, maybe any ship will be able to get thru it. Other than that it will give some, something new to do for a while.

-Kirst

if they didn't change anything last hit give you ownership of wreck so you don't have to have million dps just a bit of luck loot is not all that hot so day or so you will run em without ppl swarming sites.

The drops are not really worth it. But opening a yellow can lead to some interesting outcome. I suggest you try and see the reaction... That is the point of this event. Fit a PvP ship and kick ass by opening the intruder yellow container, I Garantee lots of fun.

I'm doing it in a harbinger with 700 dps and hyperspatia rigs.
I've lost a few sites to undergunned ships stealing my wreck after I sniped their spawn.
And lost to a few gnosis's on the alpha shot. It's really a 50/50 toss up when two bcs shoot a cruiser at the same time. If one of us doesn't one hit it, we will do enough damage to guarantee the other guy gets the last hit. Kind of a quickdraw thing.

If you can't get them, position yourself right on the wreck and loot it and gtfo, or go to some quieter areas. Theyre doable though. Much easier for new players than the gala sites.

My main grievance is the Plex drop is a joke.
1 Plex? Just give me a random skin. 1 Plex is useless.
If they were gonna bother to add Plex make it 50-100-150-200 and increasing rarity by volume.
But don't waste my time on 1 Plex. I've gotten 2 Plex out of 40 sites. How am I supposed to get 500 by the end of the event. Smh.

to do well int hese sites DO NOT BRING DRONE BOATS OR MISSILE BOATS they do really poorly against high ROF setups on cruisers frigates and dessies and im talking about the T1 kind.

1 PLEX

Few months ago everyone here would jump on his seat when he would see it in a wreck.

Now its more like a joke.