Researching the Rogues

[Kaivarian_Coste]

This event was alot of fun. I witnessed alot of ganking and shenanigans in low sec. I probably ganked 5b+ worth of ships.

[grimaxemorpher]

It is ascii you have to covert to letter form than then run it through google translate

[Garth_Takeshi]

A good event. I personally like the theory crafting aspect of these events (the BC event last year was another good one for that).

I started with a Worm, then tried a Kiki (like everyone else, it seems), then a Sunesis then finally settled on a Succubus. Enjoyed trying all the fits very much.

Garth

[Jin_Endares]

Best hacking loot in a long time.

Well spread out between hi and low sec too.

[Kimberly_Brooke]

Although my reply is long after the event, I have to agree. I hit a few of the warp gates to those Rogue Drone Outgrowth Colonies to find myself in the center of so many drones of all strengths that my overview was nothing but red targets (my overview is set to around 24-ish items).
My usual method of entering an anomaly 20km away and approaching while launching missiles and letting my drones loose to soften the field was immediately ended as I was in the center of drones hitting me before I had a chance to lock up one target.
The warp gate gave no indication of the distance from the center of NPC enemy, giving no time to prepare a plan of attack - luckily, I always keep an emergency warp location ready to click and run, for as I entered the first level of drones, by the time I locked one NPC, my shields were gone, alarms going off, armor at half… warp drive spooling up to TGHO. Fortunately I did not have time to deploy my drones or I would have had to make the choice to leave them or risk a destroyed ship while they returned. By the time my warp initiated, I was taking damage to the structure - no shields remaining, no armor either.
Granted, I was in a destroyer with around 1000hp for shields, armor and structure, but taking 2500 damage in the blink of an eye was reminiscent of falling into a fleet of jump gate campers in low-sec.
Maybe I got used to pop-up windows stating I was entering a cruiser-level or higher combat site, but there was no information near the jump gate as to what to expect. One could say “well, that’s EVE”… another could say “If you have this new feature/event, let the players have SOME information as to what is on the other side of the warp gate accelerator”… no wonder I had a week of seeing a lot of capsules docking at the station.
After three tries (thinking some might be easier or set up differently), I just stopped participating in the event - I’m not going to lose a ship or five to find out that nothing valuable is waiting for me on the other end.

[Dior_Ambraelle]

@Kimberly_Brooke

Maybe I got used to pop-up windows stating I was entering a cruiser-level or higher combat site, but there was no information near the jump gate as to what to expect.

Technically, there is a popup: if you try to use the gate with a ship that isn’t allowed, it will give you the information that only corvettes, T1/faction frigates and T1/faction destroyers may enter the site (basically only small ships that even alpha clones can use), which in theory should indicate the relatively low difficulty level.
Except for two of the latest and arguably most overpowered ships in this category: the Kikimora, which can nuke any single target in seconds - including the boss - and the Skybreaker, which loves dealing with swarms of enemies. Coincidentally both of these are omega only ships. And someone mentioned here before that the sites were probably balanced around these two ships.

[Sylvia_Kildare]

@Aesir_Valtari

Secondly - I just wonder, why events like this ALWAYS trigger the absolute worst and most primitive behavior in other players. I know, stealing sites and rewards is part of this game. But what is going on at combat sites is just disgusting and maximum discouraging to take part in the event. Dozens of players are frustrated by the fact that either someone is picking up their overseer or they have to pick up someone else’s overseer. Otherwise it is impossible to complete the second part of the event combat mission.

And it would be enough if the game granted credit to an overseer if you dealt a minimum of 30% damage to his HP. So more people could progress in event mission chain. If someone thinks that, in addition, the loot from the wreck is due to him - go ahead, let him try to steal it and face the consequences of getting suspect status.

But, it seems to suit the game developers to promote toxic parasitism as a form of player interaction during an event.

Believe it or not, but CCP once put on an event where every single person on grid got points for the site being completed (Shadow of the Serpents, summer of… 2016, IIRC). the event also went for 40 straight days. Man, what a time that was. Sure, people could still fight over the loot can, but the site itself, just being there and shooting crap… got you points. Was a great event, easy to get to the max points needed for all rewards.

[Sylvia_Kildare]

@Dior_Ambraelle

But here is an idea: if the loot is garbage in HS anyway, why not increase the site spawn rate? This way people who want to progress in the event (to get items they can’t even trade because all of them auto-applies when you redeem them) can do that, while people who are interested in precious loot and PvP can go to LS and farm as much as they feel like. Everyone wins, regardless of how they want to play the game.

That’d be nice. There were events once upon a time where 8, 10, 12 sites would stack up in dead-end HS systems due to lack of people running 'em. 5 to 6 years ago or so. CCP sometimes tunes the spawn rate to limit events to 1 or 2 sites per system artificially or else those days could still be here.

@Dior_Ambraelle

Combat site route: again, 5 point for entering, 5 for killing some drones and 15 for killing the boss, for a total of 25 points for the initial chain. Then the repeating parts gives you 5 points for killing drones and 10 for killing the boss, for a total of 15. This basically means I can unlock a new reward for every 2 combat sites.
So I need to complete 31 sites, and kill some drones in the 32nd site, for the Nestor skin.

I tend to run an event (if I run one, I didn’t bother with this one, too busy with other things) with all 3 of my mains or all 3 of my alts, and due to the killing rats and killing bosses tasks being per 1 ship at a time, that means I’d have had to do 94-96 sites to get the nestor skin on all 3 of my toons. nothxplz.

@Dior_Ambraelle

My issue with this competition specifically is that we’re talking about different rewards. I’m not really interested in the loot that the bosses or the data sites drop, because I’m usually not lucky when it comes to RNG. I’m only interested in the rewards that I can’t even trade because they auto-apply when I redeem them. The items I and others who are working to get the points specifically want from this event literally don’t have any value to other people. From their perspective my rewards for completing the event don’t even exist. Yet we are still in the way of each other, even though we want to achieve different things.

Yep, see my above post about how events used to be.

[Chan_aar]

@Aesir_Valtari

Dozens of players are frustrated by the fact that either someone is picking up their overseer or they have to pick up someone else’s overseer.

Spread the hell out, there are hundreds of backwater systems where these sites piled up. Move yourself 20 jumps from a hub.

[Bexey_Songweaver]

Nope. I spent 10 hours in wormhole space and found one event data site. Yet another cruddy CCP “event”

[Kaizen_Trader_Oramara]

I see! It’s Czech, and my computer doesn’t have the right character set to display it.

[Kev_Taredi]

what about the new drones, when do they come into play? heavy modified rogue drone for example?