User:K950/3P38 Sleeper Nexus: Difference between revisions

# Solray Infrared Alignment Unit: Approach the Solray Infrared Unit.  

Near the Solray Gamma Alignment Unit container, there is a structure named the Solray Observational Unit. This structure, when hacked, allows the hacker to collect a trinket which, when placed in the proper container, reduces the strength of the damage cloud nearby, created by the Solray Power Terminal. When warping through the Power Terminal's damage radius, vessels may sustain [http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/File:3P38_Superior_5.png some damage] but it's not too serious to warrant much concern.

560 is a nice number. If 11760 is divided by 560, the answer is 21. 21 mines? Possibly. The damage put the vessel into 62% shields, which was a brick tanked Maelstrom with 79K EHP of shields. Now you know why your Astero got blown up.}}}  

''1. If the Alarm has been tripped in this room, there can be in excess of 16 Sentry Towers active, and frigates will not stand a chance. Overtanked Mallers and other hardened ships can survive the initial damage and subsequent DPS.<br />''

Straying too close to the loot containers in a frigate, or even perhaps a Stratios cruiser, could be fatal. In a frigate, you'll most likely get alpha'd off the field. The Sentry Towers, like the ones in Standard Sleeper Caches, do heavy EM and Thermal damage. In a shiny T3 Cruiser, it's perfectly possible to just ignore them (and perhaps attack them with medium drones whilst hacking the containers) and continue on your way, however ten additional Sentry Towers will spawn, according to your precise location (more spawn the deeper you go).

Initially, there are 6 Sentry Towers. By hacking the Remote Defense Grid Unit, one of the nearby ones gets switched over to a friendly tower. Take your time on this hack, and try to do it right the first time: there is no rush. It will then aggress the other 5 Sentry Towers, and in turn take damage itself. But it can't sustain the incoming damage for long, so by hacking the Sentry Repair Station, it will provide armor and shield reps to our friendly Tower.  

| style="padding:8px;" | '''WARNING:'' '''A present bug in the site seems to indicate that failure of this next hack will spawn the Sentry Towers regardless of whether a successful rehack has been completed. So the countdown to the perimeter Sentries will not be actually canceled, no warning in Local that they are about to spawn, instead you will find 16 Sentry Towers will spawn anyways. In a frigate, warp off the site immediately if you fail the hack. Do not attempt a retry unless you are in an overtanked EM/Th cruiser with excess of 900 EHP/sec active reps against EM/Th damage. I have already lost two Herons because of this fact.

<span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> You have 45 seconds to attempt a successful hack. Failure to do so spawns additional Sentry Towers, for a total of 22 Sentry Towers. And they hurt like a truck: a test on Singularity in an overtanked active Astero ate just one volley, and was gone the next. (Don't bother another attempt. I've already lost a Heron when I was able to successfully hack the RDGU before the Alarm counted down. There is a message in Local with red text that says "10 seconds..." before the perimeter defense Towers spawn. That never happened. Just warp off.)

[[File:3P38_Superior_44.png|200px|thumb|right|Approximate DPS of all 16 Perimeter Towers (varies)]]If you fail this hack, you should call the site completed unless you have the capability to sustain some serious damage with heavy active repair modules. Or, Guardian/Basilisk logistics. If that is the case, you could as easily ignore this container and hack whilst local repair modules fix all the damage. Based on analysis with good EM/Thermal resistances, expect around 2500-2700 damage per firing cycle, which does seem to stagger out after time. As the Towers fire once every 15 seconds, and damage can be mitigating by moving, it should be tolerable with capable reps, but not on any frigate level hull.

IMMEDIATELY after hacking this container, active the Microwarpdrive and burn towards the Sentry Repair Station located near the right of your present position. There is enough time for 2 hacks, maybe 3 fast hacks: