NPC ♦ Joint Harvesting ships attacked my mining operation in Minmatar sov space

[darkestkhan_Eriker]

@Shipwreck_Jones

Thus, my suggestion is to run a few missions and/or train diplomacy so that you get your standings above -5 with Amarr (and probably all 4 of the major empires).

There is a way to quickly grind standings… run missions for caldari - derived standing increase will quickly recover amarr standing above -5.

[darkestkhan_Eriker]

@Shipwreck_Jones

Now, iirc, NPC mining fleets are more likely to appear near where they have stations, and there are actually Joint Harvesting stations in Minmatar Space (don’t know how that works out lore wise, but there they are). So, even in Minmatar space, you can still get attacked by Amarr NPC’s.

Lore is less important here, I have more issues with me being in minmil, having low stanings with amarr, and amarr npc corp sending response fleet to deal with me…

In what world does a state look the other way when enemy at war is shooting your soldiers at your own home system?

Which is why I have improved standings to above -5

[darkestkhan_Eriker]

@Solonius_Rex

I kill them all the time in Level 4 missions, alone. 2-3 people who know what they are doing and are in properly fit ships will be able to handle them with no problems.

Sorry to bring this to you, but your experience in level 4 missions is hella invalid. Those are not civilian gun fitted battleships - those are properly fitted battleships with nearly 1K dps. Diamond rats are far more powerful than what we get in l4 missions. Hell, if in l4 mission you replaced battleships with the cruisers from diamond rats then you would need proper fleet to deal with them… or some really cheesy fits.

[Bane_Askold]

IDK if it’s still available, but data center can help you with standing issue:
https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Data_centers

can anyone confirm if it’s still available ?

[Nevyn_Auscent]

@darkestkhan_Eriker

There is a way to quickly grind standings… run missions for caldari

This will trash your Gal standings and Min standings.
The better standing repair plan is to talk to friends about finishing the SOE Epic Arc in fleet with them for the Empire you need to repair. The faction standings boost from that doesn’t trash the other empires and shares in a fleet if the mission owner says so.

[darkestkhan_Eriker]

@Nevyn_Auscent

This will trash your Gal standings and Min standings

It won’t trash gal/min standings. If all you do is keep amarr above -5 then it is no problem. Different story if you try to keep caldari high as well… then yeah. Do remember that when your standings are very low you gain a lot from a single storyline.

Caldari only needs to be around -1.0, can grind corp standings just fine.

[Chan_aar]

@Bane_Askold

can anyone confirm if it’s still available ?

99% sure those are still around, CCP rarely removes old content, they just ignore it.

@DeMichael_Crimson will I am sure be able to give you a definitive yes/no answer.

[DeMichael_Crimson]

Yeah, Data Centers are still in-game and active.

In fact earlier @Archer_en_Tilavine linked the ‘Faction Standing Repair Plan’ here in this thread.

All the different Agents listed in ‘The Plan’ that give Faction Standing increase for completing their missions are still active.

[Solonius_Rex]

@darkestkhan_Eriker

Sorry to bring this to you, but your experience in level 4 missions is hella invalid. Those are not civilian gun fitted battleships - those are properly fitted battleships with nearly 1K dps. Diamond rats are far more powerful than what we get in l4 missions. Hell, if in l4 mission you replaced battleships with the cruisers from diamond rats then you would need proper fleet to deal with them… or some really cheesy fits.

I said,

@Solonius_Rex

I kill them all the time in Level 4 missions, alone.

ALONE.

Then, I said,

@Solonius_Rex

2-3 people who know what they are doing and are in properly fit ships will be able to handle them with no problems.

To which, many people agreed.

I in no way, said that Level 4 missions were the same as Diamond rats. Thats why I said I do Level 4 missions, ALONE, and then proceeded to explain that multiple people who know what they are doing can handle Diamond rats.

[Cypr3ss_Deteis]

Hmm, I dunno man, I mean, yes I see your point, but I also see where the confusion has crept in, your use of “them” for the opponent, in both cases (when talking about Lvl 4 mission rats and also meaning the Diamond rats that form the response fleet), when the thread is about being attacked by diamond rats… yeah I can see how that could cause confusion as to what you were referring to by ‘them’.

@Solonius_Rex

I never said they were. I can handle any level 4 mission solo. I said 2-3 people who know what they are doing and are in properly fit ships will be able to handle them.

But as I read the above again, now i’m thinking you were referring only to L4 mission rats? i.e. you are able to do any lvl 4 mission solo, and 2-3 people who know what they’re doing could also handle a level 4 mission?

Regards,
Cypr3ss.

[Kiyirari]

Ye i was forced to mine a regular belt the other day due to moon mining nerf & was attacked by diamond rats…

I was freaking out when it got my T2 warrior into armour, WTF

[Roughneck_Reject]

Only ticket CCP wants you to raise is the one where you say your PLEX isnt being delivered fast enough. 753 million lost, nothing $20 of PLEX won’t solve for you.

[Trololol_Sisjan]

sometimes i attack npc miners, just to create problems to other human miners

[Aramatheia]

so this looks kind of like its supposed to be a low/nullsec sort of experience where an industrial pilot could be happened upon by a random roaming pvp fleet. I get it, it makes the game scarier and more dangerous.

However the rewards of high sec mining possibly doesnt warrant heavy use of scrams on npc fits. perhaps the dps could scale up slightly and the scrams be removed. This gives a chance to leave (or to stay and fight) but the increased damage will destroy anyone who’s afk or botting or otherwise not paying attention. A pilot operating multiple ships (like I used to back in 2013-14) would have to be on the ball ready to go if the hostiles arrive. maybe to counter the removal of scrams have these roaming fleets engage any ship thats working with the target (reps or drones assisted or whatever). Surely when low/null roams find an enemy mining fleet they dont just pick the 1 guy with the lowest standing then fly off, they would surely wipe the field then move off.

Revome scram, increase dps, have dps applied to any other ships on grid actively supporting or being supported by the target. I reckon thats a fair compromise. Perhaps warp in more ships if theres a sizeable number of additional valid targets on grid - So if its like my old set up of an orca 3 miners and a cruiser playing logi/drone bunny the initial fleet arrives locks me up then say 10-20 seconds later additional ships arrive to counter the size of my interconnected group. I would have to recall drones and leave asap while tanking the initial wave - assuming I was that attached to my drones, perhaps just cutting and running is the best bet!

[Marhew]

I trided to hunt several haulers and I just discovered strange bug (I hope it’s not feature). When you attacking Joint harvesting Impel, probe their safe spot location and warp to them their Arbitrators are able to shoot you at 5000km. See attached picture as evidence.

[Nevyn_Auscent]

Yeah that’s a long running bug. Bug report it again to keep them aware of it.