EBN News: Operation Scarecrow 20 Apr 2005

[Aziphirael]

Randolph Vemlick responsible for public information at RDI (Research & Development Institute) announces Operation Scarecrow.

To all liable and competent citizens of Calypso! There is a need for brave robot hunters. Search and retrieve robot material for research purpose.

Since a couple of months robot activity on Calypso has changed pattern. Calypso authorities states that large scale attacks on cities have stopped. Only scattered robot activities with a few strange big gatherings has been reported for the last months.
A colonial investigation team has been sent out to wellknown robot sites to look for more clues about why the activity has decreased. Clues the team brought back from the expedition was of great concern. According to Randolph Vemlick at RDI the research department reported strange modifications to old wellknown robot techniques indicating large development steps in the robot evolution rather than stagnation.
This information led to intense activity at RDI. Unfortunately the few robot parts brought back from the expeditions rendered more questions than answers. Calypso authorities are speculating what this means, can it be the silence before the storm or is it just one of the ordinary development steps robots tend to take continuously?
To solve this mystery and get more conclusive information RDI are organizing a grand scale search called Operation Scarecrow. Scientists at RDI are interested in a few special parts to advance their investigations. See the item list below for items of interest and a reward corresponding to the item.

RDI Clerk Trob Tedser can be found in Atlas Haven, close to the teleporter on a couple of prescheduled occasions, see the time schedule below. Just initiate a trade with Trob, give him the items and the reward will be delivered.

Item list
Item wanted Qty Reward
Robot Amplifier 5 450 Iron ingots
Robot Converter 1 24 gold ingots
Robot Second Entity head 1 10 Rugaritz ingots
Robot Comlink 1 Adjusted Omegaton ASG-3 Warthog

Time Schedule
Date MindArk Time
2005-04-25 06:00-06:30
2005-04-25 14:00-14:30
2005-04-25 22:00-22:30
2005-04-28 06:00-06:30
2005-04-28 14:00-14:30
2005-04-28 22:00-22:30

 

[Einstein]

WoooooooooW
Very interesting!!!
Too bad I don't own any of them
But it's nice to see this new "quest"
And the rewards are pretty decent!!

 

[Terra]

never ever seen a comlink, so the adj wart is gonna be tough to get haha

 

[Kalashi]

i know 1 person with a comm-link.

and i have a few of the other bits....

Im off to ravage some robos!

 

[Suicide]

Holy crap. That item better be cool as hell with those requirements... 10 rugaritz?? That alone is like 765 ped! Why dont they do some quests that an average level player can hope to complete.

I think that nuts. Anyone who completes it let us know what the item is you get! It should be pretty kick ass!

Suicide

 

[Hally]

Looks great very very cool with a storyline

Suicide mebby u should try and read it again

 

[Kalashi]

Holy crap. That item better be cool as hell with those requirements... 10 rugaritz?? That alone is like 765 ped! Why dont they do some quests that an average level player can hope to complete.

I think that nuts. Anyone who completes it let us know what the item is you get! It should be pretty kick ass!

Suicide

LMAO

Yeah as Hally said, re-read the article

you need to hunt robo's and loot -

Robot Amplifier 5
Robot Converter 1
Robot Second Entity head 1
Robot Comlink 1


then you can change those items in for the these -

450 Iron ingots
24 gold ingots
10 Rugaritz ingots
Adjusted Omegaton ASG-3 Warthog

 

[wanda]

i was quite happy hunting atrox around Ithaca until the last quest - then everyone and their mother turned up and started shooting anything that moved.

what did I do?
Bought salamander +6a's and starting having fun with robots and now this

MA - I might buy viking next and start going after freezing mobs, just so you know in advance

 

[Suicide]

D'Oh... just read the article on the loader. Makes a lot more sense now. I thought that was crazy to have to turn in all that stuff. Format here was just hard on my eyes!

Suicide

 

[Skam]

Great! I love events! Gives us something to fiddle with! Mostly Ill just WATCH people fiddle with it but still

 

[Etopia]

good that MA put som fun in game.
and i think this one is oki for lots player , becouse lots of that stuff can be found on all robo usual.

 

[Pretender]

muahahah at the time i first saw this there wasnt even the time schedule lol

 

[ultimababe]

Ohhh interesting.. I like bots but I've never looted anything like that

mebbe it's cos I'm kak

 

[Shadow-Ale]

Oh, I love this, seems pretty cool. Who's joining me to the robotship west of troy?

 

[ultimababe]

Shadow-Ale.. maybe we could go on a soc hunt there and see what we can loot ourselves

 

[ultimababe]

Oh and Shadow-Ale... off-topic here....

Change yer damn Society in user CP!!!!!

 

[wanda]

Who's joining me to the robotship west of troy?

i think you will have plenty of company anyway - there aren't many bots left to shoot.

 

[Belfegor]

I just love missions.
To bad I lost to much on drone hunting today
Mabey I filled the lootpool for you Ultimababe

 

[kygon]

i think you will have plenty of company anyway - there aren't many bots left to shoot.

your spot on there.... more green dots then red dots at the moment :|

 

[Etopia]

your spot on there.... more green dots then red dots at the moment :|

robot spot are not rare , there robot evrywhere

no worrie i guess there enoug

 

[Svetlana]

Love this. thx for posting Azi

I think these events/missions are good for the community and MA personally. Will I be out tanking one bot after the next? Probably not Evenso, there are many ppl that hunt them and I like the idea that they can get some good payback. Also, these events we've been seeing lately lead me to believe there are more to come .... exciting indeed

 

[Suicide]

Love this. thx for posting Azi

I think these events/missions are good for the community and MA personally. Will I be out tanking one bot after the next? Probably not Evenso, there are many ppl that hunt them and I like the idea that they can get some good payback. Also, these events we've been seeing lately lead me to believe there are more to come .... exciting indeed

MA realized that not only is it fun for the people who are participating.. but they make a shit load of money on ammo and repairs. I would say they would be crazy not to hold these events every couple of weeks.

The more we all put in, the more we all take out!

Suicide

 

[Oije]

Nice to have more events, though the half community will hunt robots now ...

 

[Dash Smashing]

TY for the post. First I hear of it.

As for MA, what about a space ship depot.. where a trader buys hangar parts?

*Dash knowingly looks at all the hangar parts in his inventory*

I even have the Wrench/Handle .. =/

 

[RexDameon]

woot thats like wish granted number 6 for me now. I suggested months ago about quests where you get one item for another looted item.

This is a awesome inititive that MA has done. I see more and more of these quest's comming. This one is realy great because realy mid level and up can participate. Uber players can go solo and weeker ones can team up and even split the rewards if put there Robot Amp's together for the reward.

I was in T-Rex cast and think i saw some of those parts in there i wonder if he'll "cash them in".

 

[Terra]

make some more mid level quests, this is nto a nice quest for people with low armor

 

[wanda]

make some more mid level quests, this is nto a nice quest for people with low armor

this is true.

The other problem with quests is that once word is out everyone is on it. If I bump into SWAT and porn star SW of echidna once more saying "have u seen warlock" I'll scream.

Maybe MA should think about running several quests at the same time - to split up server load and to give different levels of players something to do at the same time.

 

[RexDameon]

make some more mid level quests, this is nto a nice quest for people with low armor

I wonder if a team of 6

one target to get shot at while fapping another faps him to help keep him alive. whlie other 4 shoot.

well it's an idea havn't tried it yet but worth a try at least on the smaller bots.

 

[ColJack]

operation scarecrow..

i have some questions regarding this operation scarecrow thing...

it says they want 5 amplifiers.. with a reward of 450 iron ingots... is that per amplifier, or only given if 5 are offered???

this affects the price that i would be willing to buy them at..
if it's each then that's 175.5 ped per amplifier.. but if it's for all 5, then it's only 35.1 per amplifier...

also, is this a first come first served thing, or will everyone with 5 amplifiers or a second entity head etc, get their reward..

 

[Michyblueyes]

obviously the answer to the question is unknown at this point, as the rep hasent appeared yet