Pilot Archive

Yeah, I cleaned up Tempests last night, tried it with my Freelance 4444 and almost got my Ryck cut to pieces. Logged in my Storm Ace with JSF and got them, I just hope the same thing hasn't happened tonight when i go to log on with my freelance to get the Ace.

Message Edited by JaekeW on 06-20-2005 11:32 AM

Makes sense that the escort should be a part of the mission. Even if the escort reaches the exit WP and still does the Exit Mambo.

I kinda like it actually that people leave the gunboats behind. I use it as some kind of timer when the vette will respawn. I kill the gunboats at the exit, log off, do something else for 1.5 hours, log back in, go to Kessel, and wait for about half-hour for the vette. I hate it when I don't know when the vette will spawn. It could spawn in the next 15 min. or the next 90 min. It's that uncertainty that I don't like.

I have made it a point to now kill the gunships as I do the mission for others, it takes a little over 60 seconds to kill them when they are with the vette, just come in from the underside once you take down turret 5 and they are easy pickings, nice loot sometimes and a good size credit chip. For 60 seconds of EASY work, you can save some poor folks a 2 hour wait time.

I like the idea of including the gunboats for mission credit.

Seriously, if someone can't kill a couple gunboats that fly in a set flight path, they suck, and are certainly no "ace" or "master" by any stretch of the imagination and do not deserve said title.

The waypoints are in the pilot FAQ, there's a guide on vaping the vette.

The gunboats being left behind are partially simptomatic of the new breed of lazy pilots who are only flying because of RotW. They can barely fly, need hands held through missions, including the vette, and don't care of the gunboats are still up. Anyone who can realistically take out the vette should be able to handle two simple gunboats flying in a straight path.

Besides, if you enjoy flying they're a minor challenge with good loot.

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Daeges wrote:

just a little incentive:

these gunboats are:

worth 260 faction points each

A lot of people don't go overt

easy to kill

True, if you know what you're doing

drop level 9 or 10 loot probably 90% of the time

Which doesn't fit on most ships worth flying

worth 30k XP a piece

Which is needed for? Not for mastering, and any masters present usually have a surplus of prestige anyway.

count towards your "kill 30 enemy ships" quest

True, but not many people are on that quest on a corvette run.

Where's the downside?

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the gunnies really arent that hard to kill? they dont spin like they used to, at least not on my server.....they just kinda sit there and are an easy kill. The only annoying part is having to go to the observation point and camp till the vette spawns again. Id rather have to clear out the gunnies (5 mins work) and wait for a spawn, though, than catch the vette 4km away from the exit and have it hyper out just before i get its engines disabled.

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JaekeW wrote:

It's a lot easier for you to take care of the gunboats after the 'vette is dead and before they get to the endpoint and someone else has to kill them after they start spinning. The next 'Vette will not spawn unless these are taken care of.

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OK... Maybe I have a problem here. I have done the corvette mission 20 times or so now, and everytime I disable the corvette, the gunboats hyper out. Kill the Corvette, and there are no gunboats. What the bleep are you people talking about. I have killed the corvette gone home, got more noobs, and come back, and killed the vette again.. The Vette is on a timed spawn 2 hours... what are you people talking about. And if you can kill the corvette without first getting rid of the fighter escort... I bow to you extreme master.... but if you disable the vette right.. the gunboats will enter hyperspace and be gone.

Message Edited by Scobey on 06-20-2005 03:50 PM

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Scobey wrote:

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JaekeW wrote:

It's a lot easier for you to take care of the gunboats after the 'vette is dead and before they get to the endpoint and someone else has to kill them after they start spinning. The next 'Vette will not spawn unless these are taken care of.

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OK... Maybe I have a problem here. I have done the corvette mission 20 times or so now, and everytime I disable the corvette, the gunboats hyper out. Kill the Corvette, and there are no gunboats. What the bleep are you people talking about. I have killed the corvette gone home, got more noobs, and come back, and killed the vette again.. The Vette is on a timed spawn 2 hours... what are you people talking about. And if you can kill the corvette without first getting rid of the fighter escort... I bow to you extreme master.... but if you disable the vette right.. the gunboats will enter hyperspace and be gone.

Message Edited by Scobey on 06-20-2005 03:50 PM

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Funkybeermonster wrote:

Or alternatively, why not modify the code so that the GBs 'bug out' at the waypoint as well?! If they really were escorts, surely they should be reporting back, or something, not just sitting there like lemons... ?!

I've notyet done the master mission but I can't help but think "what if you simply can't take out the GBs?".

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