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Friday, April 23, 2010

Monthly Datacore Run

Once again it was time last night for the monthly Datacore run. One flaw in the "living deep in wormhole space" paradigm (not that I am atm) is that it makes it slightly harder to do the monthly Datacore run. Why monthly? Ideally you probably want to do a Datacore run once every two weeks due to the 1 month penalty on offered R&D missions, but I find once a month is enough disruption.

Incidentally, I am aware of the nice little kerfuffle in the forums with the "lack of local exploit". I love how the posters go from zero to internet rage in 10min under the assumption that any development house can respond that fast to the situation. Twits.

The only question I have is whether this also affects d-scan. If it affects both local and d-scan then it's even more worrisome. If not, it's effectively an exposed exploit that will get hammered in due course. Ah the fireworks.

Linky for those who are curious.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

What is the "local exploit" your talking about?

Also, I'm curious what ship/setup you use for datacore hauling? I'm going to have to get into that pretty soon myself.

Benoit CozmikR5 Gauthier said...

I hear Let uses a faction-fit Reaper :))

Letrange said...

@Sirius
Edited original post with link

Personally I use a Prowler. It would be safer to use a Mastodon but take much longer (since the main worry is suidide ganking smartbombers).

Star Defender said...

Agree completely - amazing to see that thread grow to massive proportions in a few short hours.

Will be interesting to see CCP weigh in over the course of the coming weeks.

Anonymous said...

Why would the Mastodon be safer? I would think cloaky would be safer then non-cloaky.

Letrange said...

@Sirius The danger is smartbombing suicide gank BS. I'm the Mastodon can have a fairly substantial tank slapped on it. EHP kicking around 24-30k - totally passive. In a mastodon you'll be able to shrug off quite a lot of things that would kill a less well tanked ship before concord takes care of the offending party.

Anonymous said...

One month penalty on offered R&D missions? What's that?

Letrange said...

the day after you leave an R&D agent they will offer you a mission, if you don't take it within a month you'll take a very slight standings hit.