Last night I tried my first agent 4 mission. Of course I get the extravagansa so cue one long night of experimenting and killing things. The result? Before I got too tired and went to bed I had 4/5 stages clear and was up around 20million in bounties alone. I'm betting that the server downtime today respawns those first 4 stages so I can't actually finish the mission before the time runs out. Not that it matters that much though as I'm certainly in profit from this mission so far.
So, what have I learnt so far? EM torpedoes hurt if you're a shield tank (cue returning to base to fit an EM hardener) and cruise missiles don't really hurt anything that's got a bounty of a million or more. The rest of it is simple enough: Warp in and kill the interceptors while tanking the rest. Warp out if needed (tank failing or need different launchers after the patch) and then come back to destroy whatever was the biggest problem from the rest. Rinse and repeat. My shield tanking isn't holding up as well as I would like, but so far I'm coping. As I got further through the mission I was getting faster and better and so now it doesn't seem to be that much of a problem. Top guy is a 2.25million rat which may be interesting. Don't know what he throws at you, but it's going to hurt.
posted @ Friday, June 17, 2005 10:02 AM