Years ago when these were introduced a drifter battleship would come to their aid and blow you up if you engaged them. Does that still happen? I am finding a lot in my area while running missions in a marauders, but don’t want to bastion while fighting them on a gate if that drifter guy is going to doomsday me.
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Autothysians don’t scram. They drop around 2 million each with a chance for about 4 million if antikytherian element drops
Drifters do scram and show up as revenge - sometimes
If you engage them on a gate, you can jump through to escape.
Drifter won’t doomsday unless you attack it and strip away the shields.
If you are not on a gate, you can end up pinned down and destroyed. Fighting back against the Drifter battleship will likely be fatal
I don’t enjoy giving out this information, because I would rather see people’s dank kill reports
But since you asked, you will kill the cruisers, but later on the scary stuff will spawn in the system and find you no matter where you are, they have a memory and they will remember you for quite some time
They don’t come instantly, but they come unpredictably.
They added jovian navigation thingies to jove observatories in event to discover gates to zarzach before fanfest. I’ve collected some 150 of the thingies without killing lancers. They warp around system alot an not always present at observatories. I would tank them until entosis cycled off, rewarp in 5 min. But eventually they came with drifter buddies.
They dont DD you right away though, you need to aggress them and strip the overshield. They come in pairs and they scram, so there’s that.
As a person who hunts Drifters, killing the lancers are rather easy. They do hit harder than a typical highsec rat so i typically hunt for the spawns in a T3C for the sake of faster travel. Spawn in groups of up to 5, no scram, nothing too nasty.
After they’re dealt with, ~15 minutes later, Drifters spawn and begin to roam. Typically its Cassandra(cruiser with DD) which in a well tanked Marauder shouldn’t pose much threat. Ive seen up to 4 in a group with 1 or 2 lancers in support.
Occasionally, Battleships show up. They do point, they do hurt, snd they do Doomsday. I dont think the highsec ones are as bad, as i theory craft based on Pochven Polemarkos Battleships. But needless to say, you will likely need a mobile depot with a refit to buffer to tank said doomsday, then back to active.
With that said, there are ways to avoid the death ray…but whats the fun in that?
