Guide to the Star Ravager, plus get it to spawn

[Skarr]

after spending many fruitless hours sitting in kessel with nothing happening, gaaralow and I did some searching on the forums and found an approach that gets the Star Ravager Corvette to spawn. This method will work for the Rebel Pilot's Master mission as well since it's the same corvette...

the bug is that when people take out the vette, and ignore the gunboats that come with it, the gunboats go to the last point in the star ravagers route, and just hang there...the star ravager will not spawn until these are blown up....

so while we were pondering this, i found the actual route of the star ravager, broken down into 20 points...I took 4 of them to make the path

3651, 6786, 5939 start
2501, 3819, 738
-4079, 732, -1803
-5937, 150, -6035 end


I send these to gaaralow, and he says he's at the last point already and sees 2 imp gunboats spiraling there...so we go over there and if you sit at about 580-600m from the gunboats, you can shoot them and they won't shoot you....so we eventually take them out, getting the 33k xp for one of em...so then we wait

about 1.5 hours later the vette pops in right by that start wp...so now in a group of over a dozen we begin the process....

you only have 30 minutes to complete this before it jumps, so getting to the engines is a priority...no engines, no jump

so first target the primary shields (using the "[" key for those that don't know)...the primary (and secondary) shields are located on the side of the vette right behind the "head"....but to avoid the gunfire from the 7 weapons you have to stay right behind the engines...solution...MISSILES! 4 mark 3 protons will drop each shield...if you have no missiles, you have to get out from behind the engines and specifically aim for that spot.(use the green lead in target sprite) if there is any part of the ship in the way of that area, you won't damage anything

once both shields are down, then go for the engines...well, if you are in the "no shoot" zone behind the engines, your in the right place...blast away...now the ship is dead in the water and you can take your time...

now target the reactor and take it out...you also might want to take out the 7 guns during this time too, as many in your group will be hypering back to kessel since they got blown up (5 times for me) and they have to be in kessel when the vette blows to pass the mission....

all that's left is the bridge, in the "head" of the vette...wait until everyone is there, and blow it up...taa daaa, mission passed...go to admiral burke and get your master pilot rank and badge

[Lok'i Vidaar]

Can I get sticky icky?!!

That is super good info man.. Again Wish I could have been their but RL is crazy right now...

[Gaaralow]

And, if you are feeling especially nice and polite, destroy those gunboats after taking out the corvette, so others won't run into troubles after you. Most folks are too excited about getting master and won't clean up their mess. Give a hoot.

[Dossk]

Heh.

[TramelRaggs]

Yeah, it looks like I may have to do this with Privateer. It's much easier to Bomber Strike x4, Space Bombs x2, then shoot the reactor and bridge.

[Skarr]

could an admin sticky this?

thanks

[Hashum]

Very good, thanks for the info Skarr, now I just have to get there.