PINKY
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I recently took part in a Robot Beacon mission for the first time. As I was new to it, I looked up for a sticky guide, but could not seen one, only 3-4 threads of tips but no comprehensive instructions, so thought I would attempt some. Please feel free to add any comments and correct any errors and I will edit the posts accordingly. 
Instructions
Robot Beacons can be obtained from mining or in Auction. I wont go too much into detail here, as I assume you already have one if you are looking for instructions how to use it…
If you look at the details of your Beacon, it will give you co-ordinates to go to.
Get your party together – I would suggest at least 8 people, or you will never loot all the boxes at the end of the mission in time with fewer people.
Before you start, co-ordinate your team. Decide who will be doing what.
My tips are:
1. Assign your three most powerful people to lead the team. They will encounter the bots first and can look after themselves - It is vital that you do form a team, otherwise only the beacon holder will blast off with the ship and everyone else will be left behind.. It also makes it easier to comunicate when you are all on seperate levels in the looting stage
2. Everyone else can help and/or FAP the leaders. These three leaders will also be the ones that take out the boss at the end. (More on why later)
3. You also need to allocate everyone levels on the bot ship, so everyone upon destruction of the boss knows where they are looting. There are 6 levels on the ship. The first level you encounter is the easiest and has the fewest boxes, but you will need someone fast to reach it on the way back as you will be on the clock. I suggest you have one person looting the top level on the way back down, and split the rest of the team evenly amongst the level. Again, people with the highest agility should be assigned to the lower levels as they will be faster and time is everything!
4. On the way up to the boss level you have 60 minutes (any longer and the countdown starts). Use this time to your advantage - scout out the levels looking for the boxes - they generally wont "load up" so you can see then until you are virtually on top of them. As you find them, call them out e.g. "2 Boxes on east wall". Add them up so the person responsible for clearing that level knows how many they are looking for.
5. On the way back down speed is EVERYTHING. Before you go, put everything you dont need in storage to keep your wieght down. Also worth remembering, you cant run as fast as normal because the gravity in space is lower than that of the planet. Try running at CND or CP to experience the speed you will run at.
6. The lighting on the ship is very dark (all blues and greens) I highly recomend truning your gamma all the way up in optinos, or increasing the brightness. It will prove invaluable once you are up there! (most on my screenies had to be lightened in photoshop for them to show up!)
7. Recomend you take reasonable armor protection to... Shogun or Vigi for the lower level beacons, adding 6a Plates for the biggere ones would help too!
8. Your lower skilled players are just as valuable.. remember this is all about the loot and it is very hard to loot ALL boxes even with a full team. So the guy in Goblin with a FAP 5 must be protected!
9. You may have heard Bots can shoot through walls in other beacon mission threads - let me expand on this, they can actually stand inside thick walls and shoot you from inside them. We found the best way to deal with them is to aim roughly where the shots are coming from and shoot. However, a recent update means you only need to kill 75% of the bots on any level to progress, so you can leave them if you want, alternativly, Keep shooting and eventually you will hit it.
10. For a map (print it out!) click HERE and some info of potential loots and bot levels, click HERE
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Ok, so you got you beacon, you have organised you team and you are in the right co-ordinates…. What are you waiting for, activate the beacon!
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Once activated, the ship will come down like this
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A door will open and a “light bridge” will appear. Run up it!
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]
Ok, don’t panic yet, this is only a shuttle to the mothership, there are no bots here!
If you look at the details of your Beacon, it will give you co-ordinates to go to.
Get your party together – I would suggest at least 8 people, or you will never loot all the boxes at the end of the mission in time with fewer people.
Before you start, co-ordinate your team. Decide who will be doing what.
My tips are:
1. Assign your three most powerful people to lead the team. They will encounter the bots first and can look after themselves - It is vital that you do form a team, otherwise only the beacon holder will blast off with the ship and everyone else will be left behind.. It also makes it easier to comunicate when you are all on seperate levels in the looting stage
2. Everyone else can help and/or FAP the leaders. These three leaders will also be the ones that take out the boss at the end. (More on why later)
3. You also need to allocate everyone levels on the bot ship, so everyone upon destruction of the boss knows where they are looting. There are 6 levels on the ship. The first level you encounter is the easiest and has the fewest boxes, but you will need someone fast to reach it on the way back as you will be on the clock. I suggest you have one person looting the top level on the way back down, and split the rest of the team evenly amongst the level. Again, people with the highest agility should be assigned to the lower levels as they will be faster and time is everything!
4. On the way up to the boss level you have 60 minutes (any longer and the countdown starts). Use this time to your advantage - scout out the levels looking for the boxes - they generally wont "load up" so you can see then until you are virtually on top of them. As you find them, call them out e.g. "2 Boxes on east wall". Add them up so the person responsible for clearing that level knows how many they are looking for.
5. On the way back down speed is EVERYTHING. Before you go, put everything you dont need in storage to keep your wieght down. Also worth remembering, you cant run as fast as normal because the gravity in space is lower than that of the planet. Try running at CND or CP to experience the speed you will run at.
6. The lighting on the ship is very dark (all blues and greens) I highly recomend truning your gamma all the way up in optinos, or increasing the brightness. It will prove invaluable once you are up there! (most on my screenies had to be lightened in photoshop for them to show up!)
7. Recomend you take reasonable armor protection to... Shogun or Vigi for the lower level beacons, adding 6a Plates for the biggere ones would help too!
8. Your lower skilled players are just as valuable.. remember this is all about the loot and it is very hard to loot ALL boxes even with a full team. So the guy in Goblin with a FAP 5 must be protected!
9. You may have heard Bots can shoot through walls in other beacon mission threads - let me expand on this, they can actually stand inside thick walls and shoot you from inside them. We found the best way to deal with them is to aim roughly where the shots are coming from and shoot. However, a recent update means you only need to kill 75% of the bots on any level to progress, so you can leave them if you want, alternativly, Keep shooting and eventually you will hit it.
10. For a map (print it out!) click HERE and some info of potential loots and bot levels, click HERE
.............................................
Ok, so you got you beacon, you have organised you team and you are in the right co-ordinates…. What are you waiting for, activate the beacon!
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]Once activated, the ship will come down like this
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]A door will open and a “light bridge” will appear. Run up it!
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]Ok, don’t panic yet, this is only a shuttle to the mothership, there are no bots here!
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