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'''CAN DIFFICULTY: 9/10 [RED HACK]'''<br /> | '''CAN DIFFICULTY: 9/10 [RED HACK]'''<br /> | ||
<span style="color:green">SUCCESS:</span> The closest Sentry Tower becomes friendly, and aggresses the other Sentry Towers to blow them up.<br /> | <span style="color:green">SUCCESS:</span> The closest Sentry Tower becomes friendly, and aggresses the other Sentry Towers to blow them up, and will in turn begin taking damage itself from the other Sentry Towers.<br /> | ||
<span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> A timer is generated which will activate the Alarm in 45 seconds. When the 45 second timer is up, the RDGU explodes and there is no other way to proceed without some fairly stiff tanking abilities. At the 45 second timer mark, the site spawns the 16 Perimeter Defense sentry towers, for a total of 22 Sentry Towers. Frigates won't last on field. | <span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> A timer is generated which will activate the Alarm in 45 seconds. When the 45 second timer is up, the RDGU explodes and there is no other way to proceed without some fairly stiff tanking abilities. At the 45 second timer mark, the site spawns the 16 Perimeter Defense sentry towers, for a total of 22 Sentry Towers. Frigates won't last on field. | ||
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<span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> No penalty, although if a successful hack is not completed before the hostile Sentry Towers destroy the friendly Tower, then some Towers will remain. | <span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> No penalty, although if a successful hack is not completed before the hostile Sentry Towers destroy the friendly Tower, then some Towers will remain. | ||
At the present time, I have not seen the hostile Towers aggress my vessel after failure to hack the Sentry Repair Station in time. Instead the hostile Towers seemed to keep incurring damage and eventually destruct, even with the Rewired Sentry Gun destroyed. This is another bug of the site itself. Should it be fixed in the future, simply revert to Plan B. | At the present time, I have not seen the hostile Towers aggress my vessel after failure to hack the Sentry Repair Station in time. Instead the hostile Towers seemed to keep incurring damage and eventually destruct, even with the Rewired Sentry Gun destroyed. This is another bug of the site itself. Should it be fixed in the future, simply revert to Plan B. '''Do not aggress the Sentry Towers with weaponry: it will instantly trigger the 16 Perimeter Defense Sentry Towers.''' | ||
Assuming a successful hack of the Sentry Repair Station, simply sit near the Repair Station and wait for the hostile Towers to be eradicated. There is a rather serious hazard to the north of the warp-in, namely 3 Unstable Plasma Chambers. Getting too close to these could be fatal, and will trip the alarm on top of that. (Hacking the Sentry Repair Station before the RDGU does nothing, although a message appears in Local: "Hacking the repair station has no discernible effects on anything in the vicinity. The station continues to provide repair services to to the nearby sentry guns.") | Assuming a successful hack of the Sentry Repair Station, simply sit near the Repair Station and wait for the hostile Towers to be eradicated. There is a rather serious hazard to the north of the warp-in, namely 3 Unstable Plasma Chambers. Getting too close to these could be fatal, and will trip the alarm on top of that. (Hacking the Sentry Repair Station before the RDGU does nothing, although a message appears in Local: "Hacking the repair station has no discernible effects on anything in the vicinity. The station continues to provide repair services to to the nearby sentry guns.") | ||
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Do NOT hack the Hyperfluct Generator container yet. | Do NOT hack the Hyperfluct Generator container yet. | ||
As you're working on the hacks, avoid using the Microwarpdrive, use Keep at Range (2250m) on the last can near the group of Plasma Chambers. | As you're working on the hacks, avoid using the Microwarpdrive, use Keep at Range (2250m) on the last can near the group of Plasma Chambers, and move slowly, around 100m/sec to avoid triggering the Plasma Chambers. After all worthy containers are hacked, the frigate pilots are done. Take the Spatial Rift to head back to the Solray Room, refit to a travel fit if needed, scoop up any contents inside the Mobile Depot (if it is scooped to the cargohold directly, a jetcan is left behind), pack up the Mobile Depot and depart. | ||
For the T3 Cruisers, Nestor and other similar battleship-level tanked ships, if there was no Mobile Depot left behind anywhere in any other room, you may now proceed to the vaunted Archive Room. | |||
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| style="font-size:90%; color:#FFFFFF" | {{{1|Let's talk about the Plasma Chambers. You can amuse yourself by searching zKillboard for kills by the [https://zkillboard.com/ship/2894/ Invisible Cloud] element. Check for ones with blue loot inside them. Yeap, some guy did something he thought was a good idea...or his tank broke in the Archive Room...Anyways. First I should mention the damage. It's a LOT. First I used an overtanked Maelstrom, fit like this: | | style="font-size:90%; color:#FFFFFF" | {{{1|Let's talk about the Plasma Chambers. You can amuse yourself by searching zKillboard for kills by the [https://zkillboard.com/ship/2894/ Invisible Cloud] element. Check for ones with blue loot inside them. Yeap, some guy did something he thought was a good idea...or his tank broke in the Archive Room...Anyways. First I should mention the damage. It's a LOT. First I used an overtanked Maelstrom, fit like this: | ||
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|[[File:3P38_Superior_19.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Even a frigate is safe if the cloud is active]]||[[File:3P38_Superior_38.png|thumb|none|alt=A|The explosion re-activates the Hyperfluct Generator]]||[[File:3P38_Superior_59.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Making a line of Atrons to 250km]]||[[File:3P38_Superior_60.png|thumb|none|alt=A|From 195km with a Vigil, all Atrons exploded out to 250km]]||[[File:3P38_Superior_71.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Took more Atrons from 250 to 350km]]|| | |[[File:3P38_Superior_19.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Even a frigate is safe if the cloud is active]]||[[File:3P38_Superior_38.png|thumb|none|alt=A|The explosion re-activates the Hyperfluct Generator]]||[[File:3P38_Superior_59.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Making a line of Atrons to 250km]]||[[File:3P38_Superior_60.png|thumb|none|alt=A|From 195km with a Vigil, all Atrons exploded out to 250km]]||[[File:3P38_Superior_71.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Took more Atrons from 250 to 350km]]|| | ||
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I didn't say it was untankable. Let's get right to that subject. There are a couple of ships and fits that are viable for the job. First let's talk about what happens. | I didn't say it was untankable. Let's get right to that subject. There are a couple of ships and fits that are viable for the job. First let's talk about what happens. | ||
When a player simply approaches the Storage Depots, measured from the warpin beacon towards the Hyperfluct Generator, the initial Sentry Towers will begin to aggress the player. Their activation range is about 10-12km or thereabouts at this stage. (This is assuming that the Alarm has not been activated. We will get to that stage in a minute.) As the ship continues, hidden Sentry Towers are activated in predefined spots as the ship moves around the area. They also seem to have a limited aggression range or something. In total, 10 Sentry Towers can be activated by proximity and 6 are from the initial spawn. | When a player simply approaches the Storage Depots, measured from the warpin beacon towards the Hyperfluct Generator, the initial Sentry Towers will begin to aggress the player around the 10km mark. Their activation range is about 10-12km or thereabouts at this stage. (This is assuming that the Alarm has not been activated. We will get to that stage in a minute.) As the ship continues, hidden Sentry Towers are activated in predefined spots as the ship moves around the area. They also seem to have a limited aggression range or something. In total, 10 Sentry Towers can be activated by proximity and 6 are from the initial spawn. | ||
So the Plan is to simply tank them. Any cruiser or above class vessel with around 900-1000 EHP/sec repairs against EM and Thermal damage can survive here as long as it is capacitor stable. Armor tanked vessels are the obvious choice because of the default resistance profile of armor, and because the Relic Analyzer II won't interfere with capacitor modules or tank modules in the mid slots, as with shield tanks. That's not to say a nice Tengu or Slepnir is bad, but just that armor is easier. | So the Plan is to simply tank them. Any cruiser or above class vessel with around 900-1000 EHP/sec repairs against EM and Thermal damage can survive here as long as it is capacitor stable. Armor tanked vessels are the obvious choice because of the default resistance profile of armor, and because the Relic Analyzer II won't interfere with capacitor modules or tank modules in the mid slots, as with shield tanks. That's not to say a nice Tengu or Slepnir is bad, but just that armor is easier. | ||
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The Brutix I left out -- it's easy to transfer the basic concept over from the other ships. | The Brutix I left out -- it's easy to transfer the basic concept over from the other ships. It's simple enough: 90% EM resistance, 90% Thermal resistance, dual reppers, some capacitor mods, and rigs as needed to bring to the minimum of about 900-950 EHP/sec. Pyfa's damage profile editor allows for close examination of other ships and fits for the said purpose. | ||
The basic strategy then is to simply ignore the Remote Defense Grid Unit hack entirely, and hack the Storage Depots out. If the 16 Perimeter Defense Towers are online, then things are quite a bit dicier, and I'm not sure these fits shown can handle that kind of DPS. In that case, there is nothing wrong with using a buffer tank, and bringing in logistics cruisers to solve that problem. However, any fit that can survive the Archive Room indefinitely (excess of 2000 EHP/sec) won't have a problem in that case, and may simply continue on hacking. | The basic strategy then is to simply ignore the Remote Defense Grid Unit hack entirely, and hack the Storage Depots out. If the 16 Perimeter Defense Towers are online, then things are quite a bit dicier, and I'm not sure these fits shown can handle that kind of DPS. In that case, there is nothing wrong with using a buffer tank, and bringing in logistics cruisers to solve that problem. However, any fit that can survive the Archive Room indefinitely (excess of 2000 EHP/sec) won't have a problem in that case, and may simply continue on hacking. | ||
For those in doubt as to whether the Alarm is active or not (i.e. if someone else may have tripped it), just swap out the two armor repairers for 1600mm plates and have a look. There is enough buffer to survive without reps for about five minutes. If the Perimeter towers are not active, but all 10 proximity towers and the initial 6 towers, then the tank should last for about 6.5 minutes. From Pyfa's numbers, it seems one lone Exequror can repair about 2000 EHP/sec onto a plated fit -- consider that. As long as the logistics vessel does not get aggro (just sit near the beacon), it should work out nicely. That does have a benefit in that the standard bait fit overtanked Maller you might have just has to swap out for all EM and Thermal hardeners, as 90% resists are pretty effective at reducing the incoming DPS. | For those in doubt as to whether the Alarm is active or not (i.e. if someone else may have tripped it), just swap out the two armor repairers for a pair of 1600mm plates and have a look. There is enough buffer to survive without reps for about five minutes. If the Perimeter towers are not active, but all 10 proximity towers and the initial 6 towers, then the tank should last for about 6.5 minutes. From Pyfa's numbers, it seems one lone Exequror can repair about 2000 EHP/sec onto a plated fit -- consider that. As long as the logistics vessel does not get aggro (just sit near the beacon), it should work out nicely. That does have a benefit in that the standard bait fit overtanked Maller you might have just has to swap out for all EM and Thermal hardeners, as 90% resists are pretty effective at reducing the incoming DPS. | ||
The Perimeter Towers (and the initial Towers if the alarm is tripped) themselves have an activation range of 120km. Beyond this point, they will switch from a red box to a yellow box, but will re-engage if a player approaches within that 120km limit. Because of this, a sniping battleship can be used to clear out the Sentry Towers if desired, however this does take some time. To do this, when landing on the beacon, immediately turn the ship around 180 degrees from the area near the Storage Depots and then hit the Micro Jump Drive. (This allows for the maximum distance jumped from the rest of the Towers: hopefully only three or four Towers will still have active aggression.) Use 1400mm Artillery, Sentry Drones or probably large beam lasers. Then it's a matter of carefully positioning around to make sure the Towers in aggression range are limited so it doesn't break the tank, yet still engaging them within optimal of the battleship. Attack Battlecruisers like Oracles won't work because those cannot fit MJDs. | |||
Lastly: A damage log of ... a lot of Sentry Towers spawned. Should give you a basic idea of what kind of damage we're talking about here. | Lastly: A damage log of ... a lot of Sentry Towers spawned. Should give you a basic idea of what kind of damage we're talking about here. | ||