Extraction sites

[Bottom Hat]

Megaship/Installation sites are definitely tons of fun. Some points to add to what Bottom Hat said:

• Jumping back and forth sometimes led to broken instance for me (same is partially true for CZs), so you can get message of the attack, but if you join, ship count will be stuck at 0. I found best way to reset the instance was to fly some distance from the object (~10km) and re-log.
• Yeah, you can wait somewhere up to 15 or even 30 minutes, which is hilarious. Although being too rowdy sometimes led to hostility towards me. Not a good thing, unless you're on pirate side.
• Also, as I pointed in another thread, enemy ships can actually spawn right inside those objects, so neither turrets/friendlies nor you can kill it, and if even a part of that ship sticks out of the wall, firing with pinpoint accuracy at it will be considered as a hostile action....
• Had few very funny bugs, like 3rd wave ended, and there's last ship to kill left. I flew for about 15 minutes all around, looking under every rock, but there was nobody else hostile. So, I decided to give up and ordered my SLF to dock. Once he docked - boom, mission complete - all hostiles are neutralized.

I don't know who made that spaghetti, but they definitely need to untangle it a little bit...

Very good points mate

They need a lot of work!

 

[metatheurgist]

It's just luck. I've been hunting at the same RES for the (last 2 ) CGs. The first CG I just kept getting smalls. I had to reset up to 10 times before I found something satisfactory one time. This CG it's almost always been medium+ ships as soon as I drop. Yesterday I had the best instance ever, nothing but big fat, easy to kill ships dropping larger than usual bounties.

 

[Maximillian Forrest]

They are fun. The easiest type to get used to are defend against pirates, so you side with the owner. (always the controlling faction for the system). They will last about ten minutes or so, and you get 3 waves of pirates come attack you and either try to rob the megaship or damage it. Choose a high security system first time as they can get a bit hairy even if you're experienced otherwise.

The main trick I've found to getting them to spawn is to have the controlling faction in boom, but there are various other states that work too. This rule is about 90%+, but jump out and back in if one doesn't spawn.

So you drop on one like any station. Fly around and crash into it a bit, or just behave like a teenager on a skateboard and the pirates will arrive - I say this because otherwise you can sit there playing with your winky for a few minutes otherwise. But right conditions, and those devils will come.

Once they arrive, you get to pick a side like with a CZ. So pick defend to begin with. Different types of megaships will spawn more pirates too - I get the best with haulers, but they are all good normally, prison ships aside.

Kill everything that shoots at you. Be careful of hitting the megaship, as it gets cranky, and often the cops go nuts for no reason too (don't hold me responsible for any hilarious accidents!).

After 3 waves it ends and you can go out and back in, again like a CZ. The big money ships are the deadly condas and pythons and they normally do the hatchbreaking, so can be like fish in a barrel. Bearing in mind you might get up to 20 ships taking a fancy to you!

On average, at a hauler in boom, I can probably get 7-10m just for the controlling faction in a ten minute scenario. Kws for an extra 30%. Sometimes a bit more, rarely less.

Let me know if I've missed anything out, or pm me sometime in the week to wing up. I hope you enjoy them though, I think they are excellent fun, especially in wing, and really are a totally different thing to res hunting.

Have fun mate!

Thanks for all the info. Surprised I’ve not seen much in the way of people discussing them as they sound like a lot of fun to do. Will give one a go this afternoon and see what happens.

 

[Bottom Hat]

Thanks for all the info. Surprised I’ve not seen much in the way of people discussing them as they sound like a lot of fun to do. Will give one a go this afternoon and see what happens.

I'm supposed more people don't do them too, but I think some aren't fond of the risk of getting a fine by hitting the megaship - but it's just trigger discipline tbh! Hope you have fun with them buddy

 

[goemon]

states and security level affect the likelyhood of megaship and installationscenarios to trigger in my experience. so for exampel: investment + low security: higher chance, than no-state and high security. and you might have to fly around it for a few minutes (scanning ships or objects of the megaship for exampel).