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causticBeet posted:Like 4 jumps including jump bridges to FW lowsec from dek How long does that jump fatigue last? Can you jump out to hostile space and back again in one raid? Am hour after I post about not reading TM.com, it posts something of interest - CCP is no longer releasing financial information. Have they been bought out (by Sony?). I find it hard to believe they payed back the debt with falling subscription numbers, though maybe the Russian Mafia guy got jailed or bought our the debt.
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Edit: ^ Fatigue can max out at 30 days I think I remember hearing. I don't know if anyone's actually gone out and maxed it though. Comstar posted:
No, no. There are no gaping holes, or video links, or flat uninteresting colors. You just hate change! Any actual readability problems you may encounter is simply you not doing it right.
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Kirs posted:We jump more using gates (caps\supers and titans are now able to do this) and manage fatigue to make it as low as possible. But now you can not travel all across galaxy if you have a cyno-alts, but in another hand you can not be dropped from another side of galaxy if you get tackled. Zephyrine posted:As a Triage Archon pilot I can testify that I want nothing more than for there to be Nids on the grid. The more the merrier. Ok then, I'll resub it to keep you company :nid:  :nid:
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Comstar posted:How long does that jump fatigue last? Can you jump out to hostile space and back again in one raid? There are several online calculators in web to figure out how many fatigue you get after every jump. Like this one. http://fatigue.501gu.de/ (Totally not a malware link, I promise) And if you want to raid enemy territory, you need to position your forces next to hostile space, which is problematique. Kirs fucked around with this message at 17:40 on May 16, 2015 |
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May 16, 2015 17:37
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Looks like CCP is doing well. They recalled their bonds and repaid the 20 million $ debt they had. Also they don't have to release their annual financial data anymore. That was just something they had to do as long as they had public debt listed on an exchange. Morons are livid and donning the tinfoil, of course. 
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Libluini posted:Morons are livid and donning the tinfoil, of course. EVE died years ago.
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Unfunny Poster posted:EVE died years ago. This whole time we've just been playing a randomized flash game with a chatbot script in it  e. though that would explain the phenomenon known as "pubbies"
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CommonShore posted:This whole time we've just been playing a randomized flash game with a chatbot script in it I don't know. http://eve.znaor.hr seems to have ben misconfigured for quite some time now, so it's not that at least…
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Libluini posted:Looks like CCP is doing well. They recalled their bonds and repaid the 20 million $ debt they had. polyfractal posted:Ok then, I'll resub it to keep you company :nid:
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Klyith posted:Eve idiot logic, where the equivalent of paying off your mortgage early is a sign that the house is on fire. Guys probably think they are financial geniuses because they've mastered the dark art of buying tritanium for 5 and selling it for 5 and a half. I haven't seen Gevlon Goblin weigh in, but yes, pretty much. Now, granted, the logic here is more that they are only paying off debt to hide facts from the playerbase, and that they do so to hide that the company is in shambles… so it's actually narcissistic paranoid logic, if anything. Lots of regular EVE idiots seem to understand it fairly well for once.
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Unfunny Poster posted:Not surprised at all, they've been rumored to be heavily into the RMT poo poo for a long time and a lot of the dealings I had with them sent off flags. But enough about your time working for TMC 
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About the only that comes off as somewhat realistic is that this wasn't to save money, but they're getting ready to sell CCP to some other company. Of course, that falls apart the second you remember you're talking about trying to sell Eve to anyone.
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CainFortea posted:About the only Obviously this whole H1Z1 thing was just getting us ready for Smed to take the helm. WAKE UP SHEEPLE.
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Sub Rosa posted:What are the best T1 cruisers? If you have good drone skills, the Vexor is currently king of solo T1 cruisers -- sturdy, high-DPS, doesn't give a poo poo about being tracking disrupted, capable of defending itself from frigates. Second place after that is the Caracal, followed by the Thorax, followed much farther by the Rupture. Moa is fantastic if you have perfect fitting skills and are already good at PvP, but it's not good on cheap fits or for solo neophytes. Arbitrators can be fun but are a bit tricky. Avoid the Stabber, Bellicose, Omen, and Maller like they were the goddamned plague. Comstar posted:Am hour after I post about not reading TM.com, it posts something of interest - CCP is no longer releasing financial information. Have they been bought out (by Sony?). I find it hard to believe they payed back the debt with falling subscription numbers, though maybe the Russian Mafia guy got jailed or bought our the debt. It's most likely that it was simply a debt refinance / cost saving measure. Those bonds were at 7%, which was good for the year when they were issued but is pretty high compared to modern interest rates. Replacing it with a bank loan at 3-4% saves money two ways: besides the lower interest rate, it means they don't have to file public information anymore, and there's significant overhead in doing that. Public finance disclosures aren't just a matter of copypasting a spreadsheet and sending it to the state; they require third-party auditing, review by financial officers, etc. They are surprisingly expensive to produce.
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Zephyrine posted:But enough about your time working for TMC As much as people claim TMC to be an RMT ring, they don't do anything that breaks CCPs rules or policies despite what the Reddit crowd cries about. The situation I had with IWantISK was sorta hosed up, especially since it involved a CSM candidate trying to facilitate the deal.
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Hey  I'm thinking about doing some solo lowsec pvp to improve my skills at pressing buttons. I expect to lose quite a few ships. Any suggestions on what I should use for that kind of self-administered bootcamp? I might buy like 20 of something and go out and lose em. (I have some pretty ok pilots, and, aside from T3 destroyers (which I haven't trained yet because of a remap), I have a guy who can fly pretty much every non-pirate hull properly (non pirate because my core hull skills are kinda spread around a few different guys - eg my main doesn't have Gallente Frig V for some reason. Right now he's training capital skills.).) CommonShore fucked around with this message at 22:03 on May 16, 2015 |
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CommonShore posted:Hey :ullerm: Put a JC in Osoggur -- its a highsec two jumps from Rens and one jump from Amamake. Pick 3-4 frigs, make five of each of them at Rens, fitted. Don't JC back to Dek until you've lost them all. Then start mixing bigger ships in. I'd suggest starting with these three categories of ships, simply because each one exemplifies a different style of play: * Atron or Executioner (mwd, scram, web, blasters/pulses) -- you overheat to 5km/s without implants or links, meaning that you can run down many long point kiter ships like slicers and condors. * Breacher or beam Tormentor or rail Incursus (ab/scram/web) -- good examples of the scram kite. Tormentor is my favorite of these, but they're all good. * Slicer or LML condor or long point Tristan -- the long kite. Learn to not get slingshotted.
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Unfunny Poster posted:As much as people claim TMC to be an RMT ring, they don't do anything that breaks CCPs rules or policies despite what the Reddit crowd cries about. Considering what regular writers make per pageview the TMC writers are probably well paid for their articles if they spend the isk anyway. As human effort versus reward it probably beats most eve professions and having worked for TMC is a genuine merit if they ever want to move on to other work in the business.
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it absolutely shocks me that a news website that pays its writers in funny money has crap for content the miracle is that it was briefly good at all
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:it absolutely shocks me that a news website that pays its writers in funny money has crap for content the unfortunate thing is that it killed itself
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Zephyrine posted:Considering what regular writers make per pageview the TMC writers are probably well paid for their articles if they spend the isk anyway. When I made ISK off my articles I made like 4bil pretty regularly. Then I got paid in real money which was pretty good money for what I was doing and the effort put in each month. Tuxedo Catfish posted:it absolutely shocks me that a news website that pays its writers in funny money has crap for content You could argue the reason why it was "good" was that one of the higher up editors was also someone who worked for RPS, Massively, and some other sites.
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ullerrm posted:Put a JC in Osoggur -- its a highsec two jumps from Rens and one jump from Amamake. Pick 3-4 frigs, make five of each of them at Rens, fitted. Don't JC back to Dek until you've lost them all. Scram kite? I think I'll try the tormentor first. Does that mean I'm going to be using beams + inmf and orbiting at ~6k? Seems weird to think about kiting as something that happens at scram range. But then again what the gently caress do I know about solo pvp? What do I do if a garmur or some other long point kiting ship points me? Switch to Aurora and hope that I outlast him? code:CommonShore fucked around with this message at 23:40 on May 16, 2015 |
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orange juche posted:It's about ethics in video game journalism please dont tell people my email
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Richard Bong posted:
You know the next step is some kind of wormhole-bitter-vet-ness, wherein you simply refuse to scan and insist the newer guys to the corp do it instead. HK's system works a loving treat for this. Probies think scanning is an easy way to pass the vote, so they all scan like monkeys on cocaine for a month.
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CommonShore posted:Scram kite? I think I'll try the tormentor first. Does that mean I'm going to be using beams + inmf and orbiting at ~6k? Seems weird to think about kiting as something that happens at scram range. But then again what the gently caress do I know about solo pvp? What do I do if a garmur or some other long point kiting ship points me? Switch to Aurora and hope that I outlast him? Yep -- the idea of kiting, regardless of range, is that you're keeping at a range where your weapons are effective and their weapons are not. The sweet spot for most scram kiters is around 8km -- out of the range of neuts and nos, but still in your weapon range. You'll default to INMF with the beams, which gives you a ~7-8km range depending on skills; if they're a double-web ship (or if you gently caress up) and they get in close, you can switch to Gleam which gives you ~3-4km range and more tracking. If you get jumped by someone with a long point, yep, you switch to Microwave or Aurora. You're not quite fast enough with AB to slingshot.
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ullerrm posted:Yep -- the idea of kiting, regardless of range, is that you're keeping at a range where your weapons are effective and their weapons are not. The sweet spot for most scram kiters is around 8km -- out of the range of neuts and nos, but still in your weapon range. You'll default to INMF with the beams, which gives you a ~7-8km range depending on skills; if they're a double-web ship (or if you gently caress up) and they get in close, you can switch to Gleam which gives you ~3-4km range and more tracking. I've already lost two tormentors. One to a rail comet in a fight that I might have been able to win had I remembered to heat my... everything, and then one in an agonizingly slow death to a garmur in which I made a couple mistakes in module management that I don't think made a difference in the outcome, because once my drones were dead I couldn't really do much to hurt him. This is fun. I'm gonna take the executioners out next (if my courier contract from Rens gets accepted in time).
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ullerrm posted:Yep -- the idea of kiting, regardless of range, is that you're keeping at a range where your weapons are effective and their weapons are not. The sweet spot for most scram kiters is around 8km -- out of the range of neuts and nos, but still in your weapon range. You'll default to INMF with the beams, which gives you a ~7-8km range depending on skills; if they're a double-web ship (or if you gently caress up) and they get in close, you can switch to Gleam which gives you ~3-4km range and more tracking. Doesn't Gleam also give you a slight DPS boost if you're in knife-fight range? Not that you want to be in that situation as a kiter, your tank can't hold in a brawling scenario v  v
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Yay I got a kill. Kind of. Was in a close fight vs another rail comet and we got interrupted by a pair of dramiels. I think I would have won.
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Slicers are great as longer range kiters, something to consider if you've the means to afford 5 or so of them.
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orange juche posted:Slicers are great as longer range kiters, something to consider if you've the means to afford 5 or so of them. They're actually cheaper because master race reimbursement. I already have 5 ready to go, I just chose to lose the tormenters first, then the executioners, and then the slicers. Goddamn everyone and his brother is in a comet out here. e. Tormentors gone. 3 died to comets, 2 died to dramiels. One killed one comet, one was about to kill a comet but lost scram because I ran out of cap (because I ran out of nanite in my AAR. I don't ever remember using an AAR before today, so I'm still getting used to how they perform). CommonShore fucked around with this message at 01:59 on May 17, 2015 |
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Any suggestions for a dual-box setup to kill guristas-type (kin/therm) ratters? No, not goons, sadly. I guess the only requirement would be that one of them has to be a covert (or at least improved) cloak ship with a probe launcher and the other just needs a cloak. I was using a Rapier and an Ishtar before, but can fly pretty much anything cruiser sized and below. I'm also using skirmish links, so 2 ships plus dishounoure booster.
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ItBurns posted:Any suggestions for a dual-box setup to kill guristas-type (kin/therm) ratters? No, not goons, sadly. I guess the only requirement would be that one of them has to be a covert (or at least improved) cloak ship with a probe launcher and the other just needs a cloak. lol the only people who rat guristas are goons you're loving high if you want us to believe you're roaming venal
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orange juche posted:lol the only people who rat guristas are goons I was. http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_ext_id=1180465422  I'm not roaming anything because I'm unsubbed.hemophilia posted:Nice try SA Matra. I feel like this is a downgrade from penifsmash. ItBurns fucked around with this message at 02:17 on May 17, 2015 |
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Klyith posted:They weren't defectors, to defect you have to actually play eve and join a different side. Same with fuckgoons, it's difficult to goonfuck if you never open the client. A lot more "gently caress you dad" than fuckgoons. Well color me baffled, then. I can hardly wait to see what historical band of misfits we'll be the "2.0" of next.
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