So a while back FOB mechanics changed, and the agency doesn’t have them anymore. Sure. I rather enjoyed killing them in highsec but thats ok.
Now however I see a lot of insta-kill murder rats in lowsec belts with zero fob in the constellation. Some seem pretty comfortable in space they shouldn’t be in. They don’t leave on their own even after a week.
Honestly they weren’t a problem in highsec. Now the rats are a problem in lowsec but there is no counter-play. Can’t find the fob. Can’t kill it. They just make sections of lowsec unusable.
Anybody got a method to find fob and kill them? Combat scanned half the region and couldn’t find anything to shoot.
I think the FOB mechanic changed like 9 months ago but I could be wrong. Puts a little bit of a damper on the solo or small gang lowsec mining op or rare lowsec belt ratter farming officers or tags.
Used to be a simple scan - oh hey there is a fob, bring the fob crew out and kill it; everybody happy. Now one cannot get rid of them. Most of the time you land on the group and can warp out, but not every time.
The murder rats were significantly weakened in faction warfare space as they were being very annoying for small gangs on gates. Seems to be no change or perhaps worse in the rest of lowsec.
Ok after many days of combat scanning, FINALLY caught a small group of NPC diamond blood raider bhaalgorns sitting on the Sotiyo.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve harassed the hauler or other ships and they clearly haven’t gone to the Sotiyo.
Sotiyo is now identified. Apparently it isn’t a bug.
I still find it somewhat offensive that one can scan the diamond SHIPS but not the diamond STATION. … just boggle…
