3 : Pirate Invasion (Guristas Pirates)

[Ico]

I just did this, except it was serpentis. I had the same mix of ships as Blinne.

There were 57 NPC ships, with a total bounty of 2,52,0197 ISK. Mission bonus brought that up to just over 3.8mil ISK. Loot wasn't great, about 250 cubic meters of tech 1 stuff, almost all of which got melted. Salvage was about average. I found the following after salvaging all the wrecks:

5 Broken Drone Transceiver
22 Burned Logic Circuit
15 Charred Micro Circuit
6 Conductive Polymer
16 Contaminated Lorentz Fluid
5 Fried Interface Circuit
5 Malfuntioning Shield Emitter
9 Tripped Power Circuit

That's a pretty good haul for what turns out to be like 45 minutes work.

On top of that, I'd have to say this is probably one of the easiest level 3 missions you can do, from a risk/reward perspective. I've done it a few times in my Drake, since Revelations came out. I find myself hovering at the beacon after warp-in, drawing the NPCs close in, tanking them and then killing them one by one. It makes the wrecks bunch up, which makes salvaging go faster. But at no time was I ever in any real danger, even in the third area when the two BC and cruiser spawns were on top of me at the same time.

There's no reason whatsoever not to do this mission. It's a milk run.

[XennDC]

Ok, got it again. Forgot to mention last time that it was from a lvl3 qual 19 so cash reward alone is 1.575 mill. incl that total for this mission was 13.5 Mill. That included XR-3200 heavy, Malkuth heavy and a Arby standard =)

I'd put the average mission payout (using qual 19) at over 5 mill..

oh yes, and didn't bother blowing up any structures..

[forester pete]

Just did my third level 3 mission and got this one for the second time. Never any real threat to the ship (Brutix) ang got a total income of just over 9m at best prices. Loot and salvage was 6.5 mil alone. I did destroy the starbase structures which had some salvage but did not bother with the war structure.

[epaistete]

you do get over 100 salvage items

[p0s0l]

Just made Pirate Invasion 3 lvl in Nourvukaiken:

Pocket 1
Single spawn:
4 Pithi Saboteur
1 Pithi Despoiler
1 Dire Pithi Imputor
1 Dire Pithi Arrogator

Pocket 2
Single spawn:
1 Pithatis Assaulter
2 Pithi Demolisher
1 Pithior Guerilla
2 Pithior Renegade
1 Pithum Abolisher
2 Pithum Annihilator
2 Pithum Eraser
2 Pithum Mortifier
1 Pithum Nullifier

Pocket 3
Single spawn:
1 Dire Pithi Destructor
2 Dire Pithi Imputor
2 Pithasis Enforcer
1 Pithasis Executor
2 Pithi Plunderer
1 Pithior Anarchist
1 Pithior Nihilist
1 Pithior Renegade
1 Pithum Annihilator
3 Pithum Inferno
3 Pithum Mortifier
2 Pithum Murderer
2 Pithum Nullifier