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Basic info.

I'm currently flying a regular TIE (the Tier 1 ship), and am at 2222, in Black Epsilon squadron. I'm trying to do the first Tier 3 mission given to you on Yavin4, which is called "Space Patrol".

I've managed to hold my own solo up to this point thanks to a level 5 gun in an otherwise level 2/3 ship (shields, etc). I've come to this mission however and - I'll make no bones about it - I'm getting slaughtered over and over again.

I don't usually have any problems disabling and docking with the Tier 4 Rebel Spy, but its the next part of the mission that is causing me problems. En route to the dropoff point with the Lambda shuttle I am hitting wave after wave of Tier 3/4 X-wings and bombers. They normally spawn about 2k before I reach the target, and then just keep spawning after that constantly.

I've tried disabling them one by one instead of outright destroying them to save time, but even if I go straight to the waypoint first - I can't dock with the Lambda because while I'm trying to dock I'm just getting annihilated from all sides. If I stop and fight instead I just get into an never-ending situation where after (or sometimes during) disabling one wave of attackers, another pops up. Eventually I'm just completely overwhelmed.

I haven't got a droid in my ship, although I had a droid interface (do you need a droid on top of the interface itself??). I can't fit anything else in my ship at all at the moment, as it is I am about 50 points under the total mass of the ship. So, I haven't got any "Weapon Overload 2" or anything like that.

I know buying a TIE/In would give me twice as much mass, but I really wanted to hold off and complete this one mission, get the Technology Tier 3 box and buy an TIE Interceptor. I'm too poor to buy a ship just for one mission

So, what are my options? Where am I going wrong? Any Imp pilots on Intrepid fancy helping me through this one?

Message Edited by Durzel on 09-29-2005 12:19 PM

Go out, buy a v3 Flight Computer, and buy some Freelancer programs - WCO3 and CtSS3 should work well. Program EO2 and WO2 yourself, and with any luck (and about 4k of spare reactor gen) you won't need any of the RO commands. We could also say something about loadout if you posted it, but see if you can afford to drop anything for better shields.

Managed to do this with my lowly regular TIE with the help of a 2222 Imp buddy.

Thanks for your advice Kryxal.

Incidentally I bought my TIE Interceptor deed last night shortly before Intrepid burst into flames (or something), but I couldn't find any "Flight Computers" on starship components vendors anywhere - only Droid Interfaces and suchlike.

How/what do you "program" these commands into? Since I haven't got Tier 3 Astromech yet, I can't program WO3 etc myself anyway, can someone else do it and I'd still be able to use it?

(Tell me to RTFM if you want )

It makes more sense once you have the flight comp. It's not a ship component anyway, it's a deed.

Message Edited by Kryxal on 09-30-2005 08:06 AM

I'm stuck on this mission as well. If I don't fight I have docked with the shuttle, but get killed by close to 15 fighters by the time I get the waypoint to the next target. If I fight them solo, I get chewed to pieces eventually as they just overwhelm my shields and armor. Even grouped, it was impossible to kill them fast enough to escape. Will I need to get 6to 8 friendly fighters flying cover as I make my way to the shuttle and head off to the new waypoint?

Forgot to mention and can't edit. I'm 2222 with a Heavy Variant TIE.

Don't kill them, just cripple them to the point where they can barely fly. Don't disable them completely.

If you do this, no subsequent waves will spawn and you'll just have to deal with a few ships flying around at very slow speeds occasionally taking pot shots at you. The problem is that by hanging around the spawn point and killing/disabling each wave, they will just constantly spawn new waves over and over until you eventually get overwhelmed (as I was, several times).

I ended up doing this mission with 3 Master Pilots as wingmen, and they just cut the ships to shreds in seconds. It is a very, very hard mission to do solo.

Do the spawns stop if you hyperspace within the same zone? I use that technique to avoid these sorts of constant spawns in other squadrons.

lol i know the feeling. wait till you get to the next mission the darn emiseries ship make quick rubble of me every time.

Yeah, don't try that Karhrryk (sp?) Queen mission solo, it's mission impossible. Tier 4 uber gunboat with an escort.

That one mission makes the whole of Tier 4 seem like a cakewalk by comparison.

I hope you took x3xx first to get your hands on the 6/7-cert for equipment. The ability to mount L7 weapons and L6 armor on that Heavy will make a LOT of difference in the third and fourth T3 mission.

As soon as I complete this mission, the plan is to get Equipment 3. IWANT Level 7 components. They'll make surviving the rest of the tier 3 missions a bit easier.