After keeping an eye on the hoboleak and the current status of invasion I highly doubt CCP actually made the next stage. lul
Excellent release CCP. Not only is the content really good interaction but the backdrop of Triglavian space sucking the life out of normal space and converting it into Abyssal space is awesome.
First there was the Sansha Incursions that we drooled over.
Then came the Sleeper Sites and we all went nuts.
Then came the Invasion and everyone asked…how easy are the Abyssal sites to run again?
As long as the content keeps going up, up and up with downtrends in between the blood of Eve Online will be renewed.
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I really can not find anything positive to say about this “expansion”.
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Eve is not for you.
Loads of people mine on their own.
I can’t actually recall you saying something positive about anything, so that’s no surprise…
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Trig Invasions:
I enjoyed having the addition of ‘hunting’ - using combat and dscan to find the Trig gangs, and the new larger waves that would warp in as you ground the enemy down. Eventually leading to fighting Zorya’s Leshak and the Limininal Leshak escorts along with a horde of enemies.
The problem comes when the rewards came into the equation. For two hours of effort yesterday, I was in a fleet of twenty other peeps in BS and Logi (which was utter overkill) = 30 mil isk in salvage, and a few of the new wildly volatile in value mutaplasmids which I suppose will go up in value now that the Scout Invasion is over.
So… the question now is, will we see the Tier 2 Invasion soon? Will it ramp up to a difficulty which will require more organized and larger fleets and as a result, better rewards? Will Tier 3 Invasion need high end fittings/ships/fleets? What of Invasions in sovnull/null/low? Can they be escalated and tiered/gated to work for capitals (but not supers)?
For this content to work, it will need to be at least the equivalent of HQ Incursions in isk/hr (ave 180mil per pilot per hour) reward ratio in Tier 3 and if its more dynamic and interesting then it has the potential to be better than Incursions.
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In fleets yesterday, i noticed that the trigs tend to shoot logi more than anything else. Intended?
Is the invasion down for some reason?
Got my first chance to hit an invasion system last night. The agency showed the only one left was in Gallente space. I guess we killed the other two?
Made so many jumps in a HAM Drake I thought I must have been living in null sec.
Either only an armor fleet was running or people are already getting snobby with fits. Never did get into a fleet. Spend about two hours fighting with random un-fleeted groups on gates or stations.
Ninja salvage is real. Aside from that, the randoms were pretty good about leaving your wrecks alone and no one seemed to want to mess with your cans at all.
I only ended up salvaging two of my wrecks and a handful of cans. Can stuff does not really seem to have a market yet. Salvage reported 10M in value (most from one wreck and little from the other)
Looks to me that them using Thermal / explosive is correct.
I was using Kinetic and it seemed the loggie ones had a bigger kinetic hole than the others.
Also, a T1 BC makes for Pucker Time when you get primary. was close thing twice and once I had to abandon my drones and nick through a gate before I popped.
Overall was a good time. In a fleet would have been better. Clearly not doing this for the ISK though. Do it for the Lols.
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I would imagine so. With intermediate and high-level PVE the AI is far superior and utilizes PVPesque tactics, including better target prioritization. Most people were first exposed to this with the introduction of NPC Mining Fleets, where many blingy ships have been lost due to being unprepared to deal with the EWAR and Logi employed by the enemy, along with them fielding many ships that were hard to track (ie. they were piloted far more intelligently than the relatively dumb rats you find in L1-L4 missions, for example).
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Reactivated my Account after hearing there’s some good content.
8 Hours without a single site. Great fun.
CCP even supported Streamers to play their content and then there’s no content. Just seed some Invasions manually ffs.
I regret having already subbed 2 accounts.
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So the ONLY reason you subbed was to try out content that you could have evaluated for free as an Alpha?
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You mainly use Faction Guns because of the Fitting Needs anyway, it was never because of the DPS Difference but the huge less amount of CPU/PG you need, which especially on some nasty Battleship and T3C Fits can make a huge difference.
Anyone know if the Trigs attacked any stations yet or if they are expected to attack any stations in the future?
They have not, yet.
I haven’t looked for a Trig invasion site yet, but I know the systems in which they are listed are prominently listed in the Agency. Just like with Incursions (which are also clearly listed), they are localized to a few regions of space, not global like combat anomalies.
I love the new Agency window, but as other have stated:
- Remove the 30 limit.
- Don’t kill exploration please.
- Bring back the old undock arrow. It was way cooler.
Also, right now fighting the invasion is pointless. Not enough loot to go around, people stealing everything in stabbed Asteros, ships fitted with max salvagers everywhere. Please just add bounties so that we can at least get something out of it?
Also while you are at it please add a checkbox in the audio options to disable d-scan gong. It will drive me insane.
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Um, is the invasion done already? I’m in Jita and the Agency shows:
Regards,
Cypr3ss.
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Rumor I heard was there were glitches with the release (or with the next phase of the release) and CCP has stopped the sites from spawning while they work on it.