This page is intended to provide links to information about the Hive as well as anti-Hive tactics.
* Under Construction =Hive Skirmish Missions=Almost every faction has its own hive skirmishes. What changes is the size of the skirmish, and the location. It is beyond the scope of this article to detail the locations of the skirmishes and factions. It should be noted that Hive Skirmish missions pay a base of 1,500 cr per hive bot killed. Combat experience is also awarded for each bot killed and for successful completion of the mission. the weapon last used by you that damages a hive bot will gain experience according to the individual bot when it is destroyed. (For example if you fire a damaging shot with a light weapon at an Artemis Collector and another entity kills the Artemis Collector you get +5 to your light weapon license). ==Ion Storms - Help 400% XP Bonus==All hive skirmish missions where ion storms are present will give a 400% bonus to all weapons/combat XP gained throughout the mission. Also, ion storms only last for an hour. ==Small/Common/Large==These are pretty simple. You will have two numbers on your screen, indicating how many people must be killed from either faction before the mission ends. Obviously, you want to bring the Hive to 0, before your faction reaches 0. ==Critical==These missions will have a [[Hive Queen]]. To complete the mission, you must destroy the Hive Queen before your Faction loses too many people. If there are still small, common and large skirmishes in the area the Queen's shields will be much stronger and almost impossible to beat. Defeating the supporting hive skirmishes before engaging the Queen is recommended. ==Central==These missions with have a Leviathan that must be destroyed to complete the mission. Completion of this will destroy all of the hive's presence in that area for a period of time. The Leviathan will be much stronger if you can! have not destroyed the supporting Queens in the Critical skirmish. You should only attack the Leviathan after defeating its supporting hive skirmishes. =Hive Queens= ==Tracking down a Hive Queen, without a Hive Skirmish Mission==Find some collector bots in any sector, and stalk them closely. They will lead you to a hive queen. Their typical pattern is:they warp into the zone, go to an asteroid and mine for about 5 to 10 minutes, then warp back out. You want to be within ~500m of them when they warp, so that you will be able to see what sector they warped to in your chat bar. The sector that they warp to will contain a hive queen. ==Preparing to attack a hive queen==Now when you enter the sector with the hive queen, you will first want to take out all of the extra bots guarding it. These usually contain a few [[Assault drones]], [[Transport drones]], [[Guardian drones]], and [[Overseers]]. ==Taking out the Hive Queen==First you will need to take down the queen's shield. The key is to inflict as much damage as possible in the shortest amount of time. This is easier in a group, but there are techniques for doing it solo. Once the shield is down, the rest is straightforward. The queen doesn't fire back, so attack with whatever weapon you want until it's dead. Be careful not to be too close (~500m)when it explodes. ==Basic Group Technique==Load everyone up on rockets, and preferred energy weapons. Make sure everyone is in position, and have everyone spam the queen with rockets/energy at the same time until the shield drops. ==Basic Solo Technique==Load out a Rag with 3 Gemini tubes, and 2 Chaos Swarm Launchers. Aproach the queen (we are assuming all of the queens retinue is destroyed by this point), at 2000m, being turbo tapping around 80-81 m/s. At 1600m, begin firing all weapons, while not stopping your turbo tap. When your ammo is depleted, get out of there before the queens shields go down. Reload and Repeat.
= Links To Information About The Hive =
[[:Bots#Hive_Bots | Hive Bots]]
= Anti-Hive Tactics =
#Hit-And-Run
Unless aiming for specific types of bots, it is best to try and position yourself so that you can jump easily. Either stay 3000 m away from large objects or get near the storm exit point in ion storms. If necessary, jump away as soon as you have sustained too much damage. Disable your "flight assist" and always strafe and move fowards/backwards.
Pirren's hunting tip.
Keyboard/Mouse offending tactics. Enable your flight assist mode, pick up light fighter (Marauder, vult, valk, raptor, Rev C), and make them burst in your attackroll (press roll key and two or one strafe keys). Nowadays mobs do backrolling often in HS, so attackroll will anyways get all of them.
P.S. You can still strafe successfull with F/A mode on.
== Hunting A Queen ==
2 Chaos Swarm Missile Launchers<BR>
Fire the missiles away from the queen first, slowly (~80 m/s) getting closer with your volleys, so that they all make impact at approximately the same time. Works with Locust Swarm Missile Launchers as well.
''All energy''
== Hive Skirmish ==
Hive Skirmish missions are good for developing all three combat-related skills quickly. Currently avaliable at Xang Xi stations in Latos, Sedina, and some stations in Odiaacross the universe, they offer enough monetary reward to keep your ship flying while you are doing the missions, and are short enough to allow you to go away to do something else should you need to take a break from botting.
Before taking a mission, scout out the asteroid sectors for storms. That way you can avoid taking a mission in a storm. When taking a mission, take one that has 4-8 bots in it. Such sectors are wiped out with relative ease in one go. Sectors with many bots in them are likely to have a Queen or a Leviathan, so avoid them unless you want to kill one of those.
== Attacking A Queen's Bastion ==
The same tactics as for a solo queen apply, but for one important fact. For a Hive Skirmish queen, all the Hive Skirmish sectors around it (excepting the Levi sector) contribute to its shields. To properly drop a Skirmish queen's shields, you must take out its supporting sectors (the nearby sectors). Then you will be able to drop the shields as described above.
== Assaulting A Leviathan Stronghold ==
[[Leviathan#How_to_Kill | How to kill the Leviathan]]
= Links To Information About The Hive =
[[:Bots#Hive_Bots | Hive Bots]]
[[Leviathan]]
[[Category:Aggressive Activities]]
