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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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Choices include any vessel with a bonus to repair amount, resistances, or both (i.e. T2 hulls with the T2 resistance profile). Mallers make a good choice for both low cost and ease of entry; for battlecruisers, Prophecy, Brutix and the Myrmidon are all respectable. Battleships usually have no problem fitting a tank along the suggested lines, so I won't say much there. | Choices include any vessel with a bonus to repair amount, resistances, or both (i.e. T2 hulls with the T2 resistance profile). Mallers make a good choice for both low cost and ease of entry; for battlecruisers, Prophecy, Brutix and the Myrmidon are all respectable. Battleships usually have no problem fitting a tank along the suggested lines, so I won't say much there. | ||
Here | Here are the fits: | ||
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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. | 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 first time I used a Maller to actively tank the Towers, a certain point came happen where my tank could not hold. (It was repping 829 EHP/sec) I warped out and came back into the site, with heavy heat damage to the modules and hardeners. Upon re-entering the room, I was surprised to see the hostile Sentry Towers shooting...the Storage Depots. A few Towers aggressed, but as the ship crept past the 120km engagement range, the DPS was reduced to the point where shields was regenerating. That may be a useful factoid. ([http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/File:3P38_Superior_83.png Link]) Since that time I have switched to using a Maller for running the entire site -- saves hassle in the Turret Room anyways. | |||
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. | 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. | ||
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<span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> No penalty. | <span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> No penalty. | ||
Just after you finish the hack, quickly shoot | Just after you finish the hack, watch Local to see when the message pops up informing of the activation, then quickly shoot a Plasma Chamber. The Vessel Rejuvenation Battery's mad reps will protect you. Quickly turn on the Microwarpdrive over to the now-revived Hyperfluct Generator. There are just 60 seconds to attempt a successful hack before the Perimeter Defense System comes online. When that happens, 16 new Sentry Towers appear. Frigates won't last. Ships that can run the Archive Room fine will be okay to repeat attempts until the Rift is generated. | ||
Assuming the hack goes through in time, take the rift into the Archive Room itself. | Assuming the hack goes through in time, take the rift into the Archive Room itself. | ||
Landing in the vaunted Archive Room, it's time to take in the scenery. There is plenty of local attractions which cause hurt: Sentry Towers, damage clouds, and then Shockwaves. There are a number of tasks to perform in this room. | Landing in the vaunted Archive Room, it's time to take in the scenery. There is plenty of local attractions which cause hurt: Sentry Towers, damage clouds near various objects (Smoldering Archive Ruins), and then Shockwaves. There are a number of tasks to perform in this room. | ||
Begin by approach the Defense Targeting Augmentation Unit. From the beacon, a straight line approach is fine. Go ahead and hack it. Before we go farther, any failed hacks in this room may spawn additional Sentry Towers. May: | Begin by approach the Defense Targeting Augmentation Unit. From the beacon, a straight line approach is fine. Go ahead and hack it. Before we go farther, any failed hacks in this room may spawn additional Sentry Towers. May: | ||