I really tried with Stratios, but upon discovering drifer cruiser cant be scrammed, I just picked up a gila. 
Its really sad, as scram with web that i tried to use would work wonders if not for these NPC mechanics.
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Out of curiosity are 90% of you guys drone users?
Yeah, that was a surprise, too, I expected to lose at least one when the small stuff really started to swarm…
Don’t worry thou you will loose ton’s of drones in the new sites that are only on sisi atm when they finally come to tQ 
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When I think about it, maybe 3 webs would work really nice on stratios. Really bringing the speed of drifter down so heavy drones could hit it. 
why not use sentries? they can project 500dps to his range easy. Heavy drones is a bad choice vs 1700m/s ship. Hence why the gila does so well with its 1k dps at 60km’s and huge tank.
I assume tracking would be a issue for sentries.
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The npc keep’s a constant orbit from your ship so if you fly well you can position it to stay in low transversal in relation to the sentries, if you hit orbit obviously its not going to track xD
Sentries cant hit it at all, it orbits so fast. I think if i could make drifter fly in straight line very slowly wit webs applied, it would be hit with sentries, but i would leave them behind. Heavies are better in dps and they come after ship.
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Manual pilot then, unless ofc your fitting 100mn to your ship then your not going to have any control over the npc xD
It flies straigh when chased, but its really fast anyway and scrams you, looks like stratios just dont have enough moduls to fit thing to be good at it. Not as much as gila.
Not really. Yesterday one guy actually killed my MTU (right after me wrote in local that i’m going to drop all loot into blue container) 
(high-sec pvp…)
tracking. Tried it with a high tracking (Sentient everything) Dominix, was only hitting less than 10% of the time with Gardes. That and the little stuff likes to come in close.
Well if you click on an enemy in pvp and press the orbit button your ship will orbit if the guy stands still it will keep orbiting if he approaches you then your ship will fly directly away 
maybe you can abuse this with large drones.
Put the large drones on him then fly towards him as soon as your drones get there fly directly away, then towards again then away he will keep doing the opposite and reduce speed which will give your drones plenty of chance to dps.
Control your enemies speed through your own flying, don’t need web’s.
@CCP_Sledgehammer and @CCP_Dragon I’ve set up a channel on tweetfleeet slack for event feedback to allow for more fluid feedback particuarly in the sisi/testing stage.
I’ve noticed that communication in that stage is a little flat and it might be useful for you if we have a channel. It’s a public channel and open to anyone on tweetfleet slack called #event_feedback Larrikin and some CSM members are there already.
tweetfleet slack invites:
Well, I quickly found that a polarized blaster MWD vigilante will just wrecks the drifter cruiser, but staying and looting all day long with a golem is more profitable ? seems weird
Note : I don’t mind all the endless waves, I would like this so much for PVE, with a growing difficulty though.
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Like a survival type of mode? Could be interesting.
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If you want people to fly them in groups, change the rewards to LP and offer a reward shop in Jita, where you can buy the event items via LP.
Then, give every single person LP per Ship destroyed / Site completed and tune it in a way that allows people to get X Boosters / Skins per site. If you add an ISK cost to the exchange on top, you now have a solid ISK sink too.
Yes, it is contrary to RNG but people could actually farm. Yes, they can multibox sites but it’s either that or soloContent only. It’s either “too little isk” for groups or “too much isk for Multiboxing”.
Make it “LP for each ship you’ve helped killing” and you won’t have an issue with AFK leeching.
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easily doable in a mach.
Approach the target, grapple it , when 15km use web, stop mwd, win. no tank required.
The BS on the other hand, needs a bit of a tank.could not break it on my mach before it broke me. maybe I should have lured him a bit more, but was afraid he would despawn (which he did)
Believe me, you would not want that. CCP gave the NPCs some more player-like behaviour, like the defensive scram, frigates staying out of smartbomb range and so on. They still have much lower DPS and Alpha than players usually would and they don’t really have an aggressive approach. If you solo warp into 8 Frigates and a Cruiser, they’ll Scram you, Web you down, possibly neut, weapon disrupt and jam you, while punching you much harder in the face than NPCs do.
The event sucks right now, because of the weird loot table and the endless frig spawn. You can farm hundreds of Agency Boosters, but its hard to find decent amounts of SP Boosters.
The NPC behaviour on the other hand, can teach players quite a bit about their ships and how to deal with kiters - and that’s not bad.
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