While I never did the dumbfire skimmer missions, it sounds like they are now rather hard. Not something you would do as a routine means of making money. An occasional challenge perhaps but as a money making mission, nah. Another mission type scratched out for me I think.
Just tried my first 3.03 skimmer mission
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While I never did the dumbfire skimmer missions, it sounds like they are now rather hard. Not something you would do as a routine means of making money. An occasional challenge perhaps but as a money making mission, nah. Another mission type scratched out for me I think.
Yeah they were fun, i will miss them, I regret that i never got the chance to try shock mines.
Out of curiosity, has anyone tried approaching a base in an SRV to draw out the skimmers, then returning to the ship to blow them up? Either that, or having a wingmate approach the base in the SRV to draw out the skimmers, while you provide air support from your ship?
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Bombarding surface stuff with big missiles was Too Much Fun sorry it had to go to keep the vision pure.
When it was skimmers4cash I used to drop a mine and watch it slowly fall to the surface and then blow them all up it was kickin rad.
Sad that this fun emergent content has gotten senselessly nerfed away but hey if you listen to the wrong people u make the wrong decisions.
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So guys, I just drove up to a base in my SRV to lure the skimmer out. Once they launched, I returned to my ship. Took my ship to the base, shot the skimmers, and the mission was marked as complete. If you really want to kill skimmers with mines and missile you still can- just have to draw them out using an SRV first.
FDev: you haven't necessarily fixed the issue here, just added another step. If your goal is to make players have to fight skimmers using the SRV, then having the skimmers retreat to safety when a) a ship is present, and b) there are no nearby SRVs might be a good approach.
FDev: you haven't necessarily fixed the issue here, just added another step. If your goal is to make players have to fight skimmers using the SRV, then having the skimmers retreat to safety when a) a ship is present, and b) there are no nearby SRVs might be a good approach.
People: you have always had the option to complete the skimmer missions with the SRV, and it is far more exciting and engaging than just firing missiles at the ground.
It can get hairy at times, but it isn't anything approaching the difficulty of PvP combat or anything.
It can get hairy at times, but it isn't anything approaching the difficulty of PvP combat or anything.
Srv combat is so much fun u are a go-kart with a machine gun and you shoot the skimmers a few times and they die then shoot the next one and so on forever maybe 1000 skimmers.
My favorite part about SRV combat is all the customization options for the SRV
If they can't be done from the air, I won't be touching these again. The base defenses weren't ever trivial at med sec and higher. You had a patrolling ship to deal with, then you had a couple of turrets and power plant, then you could go to town on the skimmers. With new CnP you had to be careful how many of these you did and to where. It was perfect. The problem was just undefended bases were too easy. Durely the better solution would have been not to generate mission to zero sec bases? I'm very disappointed.
This patxh has been such a rollercoaster (no reference intended to the other side of FDs business), I'm like Yay! Good job! Then I'm like, wait, whut? then I'm like Yay! Then I'm like omg, what have they done now? Then I'm like YAy1!!1!
Mercy.
This patxh has been such a rollercoaster (no reference intended to the other side of FDs business), I'm like Yay! Good job! Then I'm like, wait, whut? then I'm like Yay! Then I'm like omg, what have they done now? Then I'm like YAy1!!1!
Mercy.
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It is quite clear FD didn't want to go 'only SRV hurt them' route. Idea is that you have to use SRV at least to lure them out - thus fulfilling FD idea of players trying out SRV combat at least for few minutes completely 
That's another success for 3.0.
That's another success for 3.0.
But the SRV combat is SO FUN
For 4.8 million (iirc) credits.
Skimmers didnt show till i went in with an srv (despite practically landing my ship in the middle of the compound) then i was surrounded by them. Took out 2, got stuck in a piece of scenery and picked to death by the remaining skimmers.
So congrats FD, you have managed to make the ever shrinking list of fun things to do in elite dangerous one item shorter.
No more store dollars for you
Apparently, all you need to do is go to the base in your SRV first and then get back into your ship...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/416535-You-Can-Still-Kill-Skimmers-from-Your-Ship
I've never done these either, might be worth a play before this gets further nerfed, which it will no doubt.
For 4.8 million (iirc) credits.
Skimmers didnt show till i went in with an srv (despite practically landing my ship in the middle of the compound) then i was surrounded by them. Took out 2, got stuck in a piece of scenery and picked to death by the remaining skimmers.
So congrats FD, you have managed to make the ever shrinking list of fun things to do in elite dangerous one item shorter.
No more store dollars for you
Apparently, all you need to do is go to the base in your SRV first and then get back into your ship...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/416535-You-Can-Still-Kill-Skimmers-from-Your-Ship
I've never done these either, might be worth a play before this gets further nerfed, which it will no doubt.
Just finished one, and yea, the other skimmers start firing at you when you fire, and sometimes drop down and hide (maybe a bug).
Is it a bug? I thought Fdev just wanted to surprise their players with an intractable fine that you then have to deal with under the new Punishment regime.
I got hit by that (unexpectedly), are there supposed to be NPCs in those things? bloody annoying!
I love tortured logic - or are you being sarcastic, I can't tell anymore.It is quite clear FD didn't want to go 'only SRV hurt them' route. Idea is that you have to use SRV at least to lure them out - thus fulfilling FD idea of players trying out SRV combat at least for few minutes completely
That's another success for 3.0.
Frankly, this makes it even worse. They do the wrong fix and it is worked-around within hours.
And I for one am not driving for 1.4km in order to work around something that should not have been done in the first place. These missions are still off the board as far as I'm concerned.
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I don't think you necessarily have to drive far at all. I wanted to scan the data terminals, so I was avoiding the trespass zone with my ship. If you want to just complete the mission (which you'll get a bounty for anyway), just land in the middle of the base, deploy your SRV, then put it back in the ship. You might not have to even touch the throttle.
Ive not done many tbh, but the times I did it was kind of fun to dive bomb., just find the SRV to be a bit like driving a paper bag on wheels.
I'll definitely give it a try, just to see how disgusted I am. lol. The trespass zone seemed a lot larger than usual though. I'm used to skimmer mission trespass zones to be in the region of 800m. Or was that a feature of this base type?
Since I've got you on the line, how come the patrolling ships weren't attacking you in the video?
The size of the trespass zone depends on the base type. The trespass bounty isn't really relevant though, since you're already going to get a bounty when you attack the skimmers. Might as well just ignore it and do what you want. Not sure why the cobra there didn't take off. Guess he was taking a me day. Not all bases have patrol ships anyway though, and with dumbfires you should be able to kill the skimmers quickly enough for them to not really matter. If I'm not mistaken, the gold rush top strategy had you use a cheap ship and suicide after you completed the mission anyway, so it extra doesn't matter. I'll find another skimmer mission, and try this "SRV touch and go" method.
As intended in FD's latest update and listed in the patch notes.
Hahaha that is 100% on you, CMDR.
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