The Hunt is now live!

[Katyusha_Lisa]

thanks for the reply thought that so found a couple of empty systems spent 30 minutes in a dead end system only one other person occasionally just seeing the same old green wreck show up on scan
looking since the beginning only one key.
only up side is took a break to explore no one is running data sites made 150mil in an hour

[Derjyn_Wyx]

Wow, this thread was something. For everyone complaining, this is what is stated in the announcement:

“…pilots with less experience and fewer skills trained can get involved.”

That does not say: brand new sissy babies who don’t know how to open their inventory or “win quests”.

An Alpha actually gave me the lowdown on how to find the capsules, and gave me tips on running the sites. They’ve netted almost a billion ISK in loot since yesterday.

Every. Time. Same tears, no matter what. It’s insane, though predictable. Don’t like the event, can’t do it? Then move along, go about your day. This is just an event. Some people are enjoying it, and doing quite well for themselves. It’s not broken or unfair (though the standing hit with Guristas sucks, I gather that will be corrected). It has a difficulty level to it, and mechanics you probably aren’t familiar with.

You just suck, and are mad about. That Alpha pilot? He said he found details on the event in 2 minutes between Reddit and a YouTube video. So that further means y’all suck, because you don’t even know how to use the Google Fu.

But I love ya, most of ya. Maybe just 2 of ya. ** hisses at the light and slinks away **

[Archer_Proudmoore]

I can only imagine the effort that went into the event. Thank you all for your hard work!

After reading up on the experiences amongst my fellow capsuleers, it doesn’t sound like the rewards for effort ratio is balanced enough that I doubt I will try my luck. as usual.

I’ve got empty rocks to mine.

[Talden_Aideron]

1. Usually yes, destroying a pod kills the clone inside. This event has special NPC pods, they are not players.
2. Yes, NPCs in some particularly high-level sites can destroy player pods. The vast majority do not.
3. Moral ambiguity is part of EVE, defining good and evil are above my pay grade.

[DeMichael_Crimson]

@Nika_Mandic

Is ist hard to “repair” the standing in th future if I need to?
Thanks

You can run the level 3 Guristas Pirate Epic Arc to repair standings with them. It’s set in Null Sec space and is designed for small hull class ships like Interceptors.

[Nika_Mandic]

Cool! Thanks!

[DeMichael_Crimson]

https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Smash_and_Grab

[Nika_Mandic]

I guess, I’ll need a lot of those. Standing is at -5,87 now
Maybe I should stop the egg hunt.

[Scoots_Choco]

@darkislife_zhang

Guys after much testing, it seems like most if not all the ships in both sites have explosive resist holes

Just FYI, for anyone coming into this thread late, he is wrong.

These are the actual resistances. If you follow this guy’s advice, you’ll be wasting a lot more time trying to chew through 2/3rd of the NPC’s health with the weakest damage type.

Imo, the best bet would be to use Thermal.

The Bosses all have uniform resistances:
Shield - 50%
Armor - 50%
Hull - 33%

Source is Hoboleaks for the current TQ build: Hoboleaks: Tranquility_Previous (Build: 1700750) to Tranquility_Next (Build: 1701385)

[darkislife_zhang]

Sorry my bad I was using the resists in the hoboleaks: https://www.hoboleaks.space/Singularity_1689009-1691977.

Where did you find the actual resists?

[Scoots_Choco]

https://www.hoboleaks.space/about

What’s up with resistances on Hoboleaks? They don’t look the same as they do in-game!

The tl;dr is that resistances are actually resonances, or damage multipliers. If something has a 0.6 resistance on hoboleaks, it will have a 1-0.6 = 0.4 = 40% resistance in-game.

Use Current TQ’s data, not SISI’s.

[Scoots_Choco]

A bunch of stuff from just 3 Huntsmaster sites!

Wonder how much those BPCs are actually worth since it’s so soon.

[Catie_Vyvorant]

Loot from 8 high sec sites. I ran those in around an hour.

Keys are a pain in the ass to farm, but I found a lot of them in null sec while doing relic sites. So if you want a lot of keys you definitely want to go in null sec !

However, there seems to be a bug when you activate a gate, it might consumes multiple keys. I feel that it happened when I tried to “steal” a site from someone else. Lost around 15 keys because of this bug (or maybe it’s intended? If it’s intended then it’s dumb)

All in all, very boring event but high sec sites pay well at least

If anyone is interested, this is the fit I’m using. Just orbit the guristas bunker and attack, you don’t even have to pay attention to what’s happening.

[The Hunt Event, Hawk]
Ballistic Control System II
Missile Guidance Enhancer II

1MN Afterburner II
Small Shield Booster II
Republic Fleet Small Cap Battery
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
EM Ward Amplifier II

Rocket Launcher II
Rocket Launcher II
Rocket Launcher II
Rocket Launcher II

Small Capacitor Control Circuit II
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer II

Nanite Repair Paste x21
Scourge Rage Rocket x16802

[Wadiest_Yong]

Apparently I was not so lucky on the drops. Just 1 skin, a pair of boots and a beret (for my hairless alt, lol), two boosters, one C3-A. No faction stuff, nothing higher than 11th Tier (had 1x 15th yesterday), no blueprints, no implants. And more than a few guys trying to steal the site, but I guess they lost their keys, wahahaha.

[Phanty_Antollare]

There are 3 things that made me laugh cause of this event:

1. The capsules are very easy to find, 3-4 keys per hour. But to find a combat site? That is a challenge. Sometimes you need to fly through 10 systems, to find one.

2. When you finally found one, you think you’re lucky? Wrong. Russians strikes again. They leave the site online for purpose just to bait players. If you dont check first if its save to warp to 0, you’re dead.
   Check “Liekuri” on zkillboards.

3. Propably because of fit that was posted above, someone bought THE ENTIRE STOCK of Scourge Rage rockets in Jita and is selling those for 4x the original price. Not Nova, or any other type - just Scourge

I love this event.

[Bane_Askold]

@Phanty_Antollare

• The capsules are very easy to find, 3-4 keys per hour. But to find a combat site? That is a challenge. Sometimes you need to fly through 10 systems, to find one.

Totally agree on this one

@Phanty_Antollare

When you finally found one, you think you’re lucky? Wrong. Russians strikes again. They leave the site online for purpose just to bait players. If you dont check first if its save to warp to 0, you’re dead.
Check “Liekuri” on zkillboards.

The only suspect kill i see is a kikimora killed by vexors because suspect status i think. Do not loot yellow wrecks. That’s it.

@Phanty_Antollare

Propably because of fit that was posted above, someone bought THE ENTIRE STOCK of Scourge Rage rockets in Jita and is selling those for 4x the original price. Not Nova, or any other type - just Scourge

Offer and demand. nothing else, go somewhere else to buy some and when travelling check for pods and sites… juts an idea…

[Nika_Mandic]

Are those Hunt Sites in Low/Nullsec much harder than those in Hisec?
Thinking if I should try one low/null with my T1 Destroyer.
If its not doable, I would avoid loosing my Algos.
Thanks

[Lion_Drome]

I am really enjoying the capsule implants dropping thanks to this event.

It encourages podding in lowsec and makes hunting them a lot more enjoyable as well. And rewards the hunter as well.

I hope implants dropping from pods will be kept as a permanent feature after the event is over.

[Nika_Mandic]

@Nika_Mandic

Are those Hunt Sites in Low/Nullsec much harder than those in Hisec?
Thinking if I should try one low/null with my T1 Destroyer.
If its not doable, I would avoid loosing my Algos.
Thanks

Got killed by two russians with T2 ships in the first pocket…
Guess I’ll skip those nullsec sites…

Edit: correction, three russians…

[Markus_Garret]

this algos for VIP site or normal one?