Pilot Archive

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Sasee wrote:

So I bought JTL on release along with a friend of mine and we both decided we wanted to be Imperial Pilots. We very quickly got boxes 2222, upgraded ours ships, and were looking forward to making Master in a few weeks.

Frustration then set in as try as we might neither of us (and together) could complete the first tier 3 mission. The ships we had to fight were not difficult it is just that there were wave after wave and we could not kill them fast enough. We often ended up out of range of the transport.

JTL simply became a free travel pass between starports until yesterday when I decided to have another go...

So I ask my guild and I get a neutral Master Pilot to help me. I took the mission (an escort mission) and we grouped and went for it. The mission seemed to go on for ages - every time we 'completed' it and the escorted ship hit hyperspace I got a new set of co-ords and the mission more or less repeated itself. In the end this guy, who was very patient and helpful, suggested that it might not be the tier 3 mission at all but something simply designed to give me xp. I have the required 200000 combat xp for the box already.

I landed and went back to the NPC who told me I had failed the mission yet we had been up there for ages, killed all the opposition and several (I guess 4 or 5) escorted ships had escaped.

Please help!

I get the mission by talking to Captain Denner (Storm Squadron Pilot Trainer) on Yavin IV - is this right? I have forgotten the sequence of events that led me to him.

Thanks

Sasee

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Teir 3 is a brick wall to many new pilots, and imperial teir3's are notorious for being either long, and/or difficult. Storm squadron the most notorious.

In general, plan to set aside about 45 mins to an hour to complete each one. Completion of a teir 3 mission rewards you wtih a new skill box. They do not require exp.

As to which ones to take, to an experienced pilot with alot of equipment and droid commands stocked up somewhere i would say, Equipment first, droid commands second, bomberstrike 3rd, and Tie Interceptor as your 4th and final box to train in teir 3. To someone not as experienced i would probably say interceptor first, equipment 2nd, droidcommands 3rd, and bomberstrike 4th.

Offhand i think you need to do two things by what ive read here.
1.) look to upgrade your equipment
2.) start looking to run some droid commands, they help greatly.


General mission help.

- Disable your targets first. Killing takes twice as long. I tend to shoot at the reactor and let them drift. Disabled ships auto distruct in about 5 mins.

- Delivery missions. On delivery missions you'll typically get an endless spawning wave after wave of fighters. One trick i learned a long time ago in this scenario is to simply hyper to another quadrant in the SAME sector, and simply approach the delivery point from another direction. 90% of the time, this will lose the endless spawning waves and you can deliver and get out of dodge.

- Think. Its not always as simple as, "there they are, shoot them". Often who you shoot first, and how you go about doing it can make a diffrence. On a tactical level, think of each mission as a puzzle that needs to be solved

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Cylas-Wildace- wrote:

when disabling ships on escort missions disable them all but 1 from each wave, take the 1 thats left down to under 20% engine power and leave him alone. do the same to the second wave and then there should be only 2 enemy ships flying around both under 20% engine power and they shouldnt cause much problem. and then in leaving those 2 ships up No more waves will spawn until the escort leaves and a new mission objective.

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Intresting, never tried that. Learn something new every day

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alyris wrote:

Also, get used to having droid programs on your imperial craft, it will help you tons.

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> 1. Am I taking the correct mission from the correct NPC to fill a tier 3 box?

Yes, most likely. The entire tier 3, at least for the imps is do a series of missions, get a box for free. It is a pain at the begining because you hit the 200k mark fast and you sit there wanting to complain about not baeing able to train, but then you realize that you are getting free exp to spend on your first tier 4 skill, which requires a cool mil exp. They are long, tough, and bounce between total frustration and boredom. It has been mentioned to death so far, but to stress what all these wise people are saying: Disabling a ship is your friend. If you don't HAVE to kill them, disable and move on. If you do, disable and move on, then come back once noone is moving and kill them. Hyperspace is your friend. If you have to go from point A to point B and you keep getting jumped, hold out until the second wave comes and hyperspace to another sector in the same system, then fly around the mass of ships. This is handy more than a couple of times in the Inquisition missions.

> 2. How do I change this mission to one of the other tier 3 boxes if I don't have to do them in sequence? Who do I talk to, where do I go?

The guy you get your misisons from gives you your choice of skills when you complete the mission, so pick what you want. Personally, I went ships, equipment, commands, and am will get droids when I finish the fourth mission. Not sure about the other squadrons, but bstrike is insanly helpful in the third and fourth missions for the inqusition...probably any "take out this gunship and its escorts" mission as it keeps the gunship busy while you kill all his friends. If I had real skill, I might have taken droid commands earlier, but for some reason my mind only recognized the target last punk who shot me, fire, and clear target buttons. Everything else is just scenery to me.