Yeah… this round of events isn’t for me 'n my destroyer. I’m cool with it though, really got my heart beating when the rats did completely unexpected things. I feel lucky that I was able to warp out in haste. Good for the Ceeps for throwing something terrifying into Hi.
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Overall I’d have to agree. This is great progress in terms of complex and engaging PvE content. Very fun to fight / fly against these. Way better than the “warp in and shoot spawns” style game play. These things warp around, and disengage. It’s all very fun.
Kudos to CCP!
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Can someone explain how to find theses things? I haven’t found one yet.
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They show up in your overview, but you may need to add “Event Beacons” to one of your tabs.
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Well how common are they? I’ve traveled all over the place but haven’t seen one. Are they just rare random spawns that could occur anywhere?
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They are common as dirt, and respawn fast. Try just sitting in one system and watching.
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Haven’t seen a single one. Do they show up on The Agency?
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When in the same system they do, same as anoms, but not in other systems. If you aren’t seeing them you are running around and other people are clearing them before you get them.
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Just did one as I read this thread. Rewarps are cool but far to frequent. Reinforcements are odd, but I suspect that was planned along with the rewarping to keep the triggers rather hidden in the spawns.
Still relatively undecided on hit or miss. Initial pass is good though. Id almost say that the rats should just pull range rather than rewarp, but might have more to say more sites in.
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Some spawns are time based, some are based on kills.
Observable by the difference in spawns when solo or clearing with a friend.
This provides some incentive to work with someone else as it keeps the rats down better.
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Oh I wasnt worried about that tbh. It was a lot of movement with spawns and though I realize that it was planned and totally in the right direction it is still something my brain is thinking about. To clear the site was rather easy imo so it wasnt too “hard” in the traditional sense, yet Im more curious about the new AI implementation directions which is what my brain is mulling over atm.
The movement of various ships in and out regardless of spawn rate or time breaks up the idea of set spawns which is fair. Though the movement did seem excessive at first as did the reinforcement spawns which added to the visual movement noise. Good for distraction and breaking up monotony of Eves usual spawn mechanics though Im trying to think if the individual rewarps, which we dont see much of in PvP, versus squad or unit warps or simply the fact that this really breaks up the pattern recognition quite well is more of a factor in the future development.
Both are rather good on their own imo and Im not sure which path is a better one atm. More like pvp scenarios or breaking up the cognitive patterns. As both are worth something in the final end.
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Site rats warp off 500ish km away and sit there…sometimes they warp in and I try to lock only to have them warp off without the ability to lock…this event is…frustrating and perhaps a bit buggy. I warp away then back and there are some rats there…yay…so I launch drones and they all warp back to 500km away…this event is borked.
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This event is absolutely horrible… me and a corpmate tried to do a site in a Drake and a Loki… His light drones got shredded in 5 minutes and my heavy missiles were barely scratching the frigates, cruisers and battlecruiser. And of course, once you get them to half shield they warp off.
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depends on the system… they are very common in highsec and lowsec… but nullsec they spawn about once every few hours.
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If you kill them fast enough they don’t warp off.
I’ve been soloing in a Gila.
A corp mate has been soloing in a legion.
Considering the loki is the current top T3 I’m guessing either poor fits or poor character skills.
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my atron died 
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If your drones are getting blapped, try to use faction or ‘augmented’ drones. They have more tank.
you missed the part to where she does help.
im doing the event in a nighthawk and autotarget missiles, I have no issues other than everything warping as bad as the ai been target switching since 2012
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Love how the new rat’s pounce, much more difficult and engaging to fight, wish this type of stuff was transfered to normal sites to make them harder 