Jin wrote:
Can't agree enough with this. In my admittedly limited experience the Assah route offers a far safer alternative to going through Doril. Of the two return journeys I've made through the Doril pipe, I've been podded twice; whereas I've made double the journeys through Assah and the most threat I've encountered was a wave from a UK guy I've never encountered before. I'm assuming the most dangerous part of this route is around the G-5 <->Assah area, which, on the occasions I've been through this way, has always been crawling with UK bods; the reason (again an assumption) it's so lacking in bad guys.
Should also point out that I am lost as to the subject of this thread and so if my comments are not valid then apologies.
Spot on. When 5punkorp made our first tentative forrays into Catch, the Doril pipe was claimed and camped 24/7 by Curse Coalition and Centre for Disease Creation who were both hostile to ISS, effectively denying any use of that route at all. We used Assah all the time then and only occasionally ran into Establishment camps in G-5EN2. Since CC/CDC collapsed and moved away, the Doril pipe has been largely friendly which is fortunate, but now Priory has taken up residence it's back to where we were a year ago. But the main difference is that Ushra'Khan are significantly bigger and more established in Providence than they were before (and Est have gone South for the winter).
So, although we won't go so far as to 'ban' 5punkers from using Doril, I
strongly encourage everyone to use the Assah route wherever possible - even so a scout, lots of WCS and
ISS Providence channel are a must. You should be wary around 9UY, although it's full of UNITY you do sometimes get hostiles around there. Also have a scan point in range of both gates in G-5 (the Assah gate is the one usually camped) and you'll need instas taking you well into empire through Assah itself - this is where pirates go for their tea breaks and can be hostile sometimes.
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Did it draw any fire/get damaged?
