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Zak2k12 posted:I guess my point is: don't stress it. Just do the things that seem fun to you at the time. Right on, looking forward to just relaxing and hopefully meeting some people to play with when I get far enough along.
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Crell posted:I know this gets said a lot, but I feel really lost if there is no fleet I can join. This is just a way for me to figure out some of the basic fundamentals of other parts of the game. I don't even know what mining, scanning, exploring and all that other poo poo looks like. I know what you mean. I've been ship spinning a lot when there's no fleet. I kinda got bored of it and decided that I was doing something about it. I bought myself a swordfleet interceptor (cheap enough that i don't care about losing it) and I've been traveling up and down the pipe in Fade, and warping to random anomalies in the hopes of catching people unaware. Although I have no kills yet (or loses) I ~almost~ nabbed a Vexor Navy issue that managed to warp out just before I get into scram range. I also almost lost my ship to another Vexor navy issue that was baiting me. I also had to dodge a bunch of gate camps in 01Y and I ~think~ a few guys formed up just to try and catch me. I've been having lots of fun. 
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Apologies for not having been around much this weekend but everything people are saying about RVCMF is true. The Corp is newbie not the players. You can be anyone at all and have a place in the Corp as a superfly. Mine, chat, chill. That's the idea behind it!  Also I did debate whether or not to show my bulletins with the thread but I am ok with them leaking out instead. It's fun to pretend to be a boss 
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Dalael posted:I know what you mean. I've been ship spinning a lot when there's no fleet. I kinda got bored of it and decided that I was doing something about it. I bought myself a swordfleet interceptor (cheap enough that i don't care about losing it) and I've been traveling up and down the pipe in Fade, and warping to random anomalies in the hopes of catching people unaware. Although I have no kills yet (or loses) I ~almost~ nabbed a Vexor Navy issue that managed to warp out just before I get into scram range. I also almost lost my ship to another Vexor navy issue that was baiting me. I also had to dodge a bunch of gate camps in 01Y and I ~think~ a few guys formed up just to try and catch me. I've been scanning for wormholes in Saranen and surrounding when there's been a lull in fleets. Ended up gate camping in Provi the other day. Would have died to a group that formed up to kill me had I not been flying a Curse and been able to neut out the tackle. Fun times to be had with wormholes. You can literally end up anywhere.
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Wormholes are my favorite thing right now. I was scanning for a good system to squat in last night and I ran into a four man gas mining operation. I think I scared them off for a bit with my probes. Then I came across a lot of mobile warp disruptors left over from when some guys got evicted from their C3 two days ago. Piecing together what had happened was pretty fun. Lastly I crossed paths with a large blops gang that was going to dunk some nerds in null. I bumped into their interceptor escort when I was switching systems and safed up immediately, waiting for them to pass. I guess some of their friends stayed behind and waited for me, because I jumped straight into a sabre and hictor down the pipe, but I managed to get away. You never know what you'll find next. On the other hand, there are days when you just scan for hours and never find anything good.
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I've just looked over the new Rapid Torpedo-launchers for capitals and wow did CCP gently caress up. So you now have these new capital launchers who -get this- launch torpedos about twice as slow as normal torpedo launchers. If you fit bog standard torpedo launchers on your capital, you actually fire twice as fast as the new rapid launchers. What the hell? Is this CCP's idea of a joke? Please tell me PYFA is hosed and the in-game rapid torpedos aren't terrible.
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May 3, 2016 14:35
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A couple of karmafleet dudes (maybe just one dude?) already ate poo poo trying dual gank rapid torp phoenixes
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April Fool posted:
So what exactly was CCP's idea behind this? If I suddenly want to, let's say take out a Phoenix to shoot at subcaps, I can get about twice as much DPS with normal Torpedo-launchers. I also don't have to wait an eternity for them to reload. They're also cheaper. And use a fraction of the CPU/Grid. Those rapid torpedo launchers are like a joke on people who don't look too closely at what they buy. I just don't understand this. 
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Goatman Sacks posted:A couple of karmafleet dudes (maybe just one dude?) already ate poo poo trying dual gank rapid torp phoenixes Seriously, this is like getting hit by fireworks and still dying.
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Libluini posted:So what exactly was CCP's idea behind this? If I suddenly want to, let's say take out a Phoenix to shoot at subcaps, I can get about twice as much DPS with normal Torpedo-launchers. I also don't have to wait an eternity for them to reload. They're also cheaper. And use a fraction of the CPU/Grid. A T2 siege module reduces the rate of fire on XL launchers by 80%. Rapid torpedo launchers are XL launchers, regular torpedo launchers are not.
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Libluini posted:Those rapid torpedo launchers are like a joke on people who don't look too closely at what they buy. I just don't understand this. Neither do I.
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LemonDrizzle posted:A T2 siege module reduces the rate of fire on XL launchers by 80%. Rapid torpedo launchers are XL launchers, regular torpedo launchers are not. OK, now that makes more sense. Still, it's really weird to see a module shoved into a niche like that. Don't use a siege module, get hosed. Man, stuff like this is just irritating. One of the many reasons not to fly caps, I guess.
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May 3, 2016 14:55
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So this high reload times make Caldari Titan V and/or a Tech2 Siege Module very valuable.
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Libluini posted:OK, now that makes more sense. Still, it's really weird to see a module shoved into a niche like that. Don't use a siege module, get hosed.
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Libluini posted:OK, now that makes more sense. Still, it's really weird to see a module shoved into a niche like that. Don't use a siege module, get hosed. please stop talking about capitals or balance in general it's making me very not chill
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So I haven't been able to do anything but station spin and occasionally pop into a standing fleet since last week due to some real-life responsibilities and I kinda lost track of my skill queue. Apparently I'm spending this week training Assault Frigates to 4 instead of going for another racial frigate or medium drones 5. I know the Enyo is supposed to be the least worst but are there any other races that are decent for solo nullsec fuckery? I guess next I'll suck it up and train for a T3D on the way to a dictor. Also, has anyone had any luck getting public courier contracts delivered to lowsec? I'm trying to get 20 Incursus and Tristans (+ fittings) delivered to Black Rise so I can learn this whole solo thing. I've progressively upped the contract reward from 5 to 20 million over 3 weeks and there is even another 20m contract to the same station but still no takers. What's the secret? Black Frog wants me to pay for a whole jump freighter but I'd rather not drop 10% of my liquid isk on a 2/3 empty JF. 
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Morris posted:So I haven't been able to do anything but station spin and occasionally pop into a standing fleet since last week due to some real-life responsibilities and I kinda lost track of my skill queue. Apparently I'm spending this week training Assault Frigates to 4 instead of going for another racial frigate or medium drones 5. I know the Enyo is supposed to be the least worst but are there any other races that are decent for solo nullsec fuckery? I guess next I'll suck it up and train for a T3D on the way to a dictor. Pretty much the only way you'll get this delivered is if some new hauler isn't paying attention, accidentally accepts it, and actually tries to deliver it instead of saying gently caress it and eating the collateral. Chances are they will probably get killed trying to do so as well. There are multiple people providing freighter services into Saranen listed in smart on the goonfleet forums, use those. Or if you're looking to go somewhere else besides Saranen, ship them to the lowsec entry point you want and then move them in manually.
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LemonDrizzle posted:Forcing you to siege to get meaningful dps is kind of central to the balancing of dreads. You get excellent dps and local tank on a comparatively cheap and insurable ship, at the cost of being immobilized and unable to receive remote assistance for five minutes. I get it now, but man, do I hate being immobile. In the past I spend some time thinking about trying out dreads, but that whole siege-thing sucks out all the fun of flying a ship for me.
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Faction frigates are generally better options than assault frigates at the moment for a variety of reasons. If you want to try solo frigate pvp and can fly an Enyo, you can also fly a Comet, which is both cheaper and better. The Slicer is also a really great option for learning to kite, and the Hookbill is a very capable brawler (go with a dualprop fit and dumpster overconfident Sabres all day).
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nessin posted:Pretty much the only way you'll get this delivered is if some new hauler isn't paying attention, accidentally accepts it, and actually tries to deliver it instead of saying gently caress it and eating the collateral. Chances are they will probably get killed trying to do so as well. There are multiple people providing freighter services into Saranen listed in smart on the goonfleet forums, use those. Or if you're looking to go somewhere else besides Saranen, ship them to the lowsec entry point you want and then move them in manually. Yeah I was hoping to give Saranen a miss and go somewhere quieter where I can just go find dudes in plexes rather than the constant traffic of gangs through Saranen. Also I want to keep my Saranen clone empty so I can podex whenever I want. I'll look at staging out of the highsec exit system and if I lose the occasional frigate to a gate camp oh well  LemonDrizzle posted:Faction frigates are generally better options than assault frigates at the moment for a variety of reasons. If you want to try solo frigate pvp and can fly an Enyo, you can also fly a Comet, which is both cheaper and better. The Slicer is also a really great option for learning to kite, and the Hookbill is a very capable brawler (go with a dualprop fit and dumpster overconfident Sabres all day). I have some Comets lying around, my original plan had been to get started with those. But my courier contract outlived peacetime SRP so I figured I'd get my early welps done in something cheaper. I like the Slicer idea, Crusader looks like fun ship to roam with and I'd max out my Astero's tank to boot. 
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Slicers can deff. be a pain if flown by someone with decent skills. Garmurs on the other hand, are just another level of "troll". The speed they can reach and how easy they can kite most things around are just sick.
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Can a well fitted and skilled Ishtar do level 4 missions with relative ease? I have one in EFT that can dish out 800dps and tank 350dps with armor tanking. Its cap stable with a 100mn afterburner on putting me at 1200m/s
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Can a well fitted and skilled Ishtar do level 4 missions with relative ease? I have one in EFT that can dish out 800dps and tank 350dps with armor tanking. Its cap stable with a 100mn afterburner on putting me at 1200m/s You can survive the missions just fine, especially being AB fit as a cruiser with that kind of a tank. The problem is the sheer irritation-factor that comes from how often the AI likes to target and pop your drones leaving you neutered on DPS and having to warp back to station constantly for more drones.
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Siets posted:You can survive the missions just fine, especially being AB fit as a cruiser with that kind of a tank. The problem is the sheer irritation-factor that comes from how often the AI likes to target and pop your drones leaving you neutered on DPS and having to warp back to station constantly for more drones. Are there ways to try and keep your drones safe or they hosed no matter what? If not for a drone boat do Megatheon or Hyperion gun boats work well for level 4s? If so what kind of fits are good? Navy megas would work for me too.
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Your ishtar will do fine. If you put a target painter into one of the mids and keep it active on one of the NPCs, they'll all focus on you and ignore your drones.
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avatarinwin posted:dreads are pretty terrible for 'solo roaming', but on the other hand carriers are really strong right now Biggest EVE regret is that I have no choice but to let my carriers gather dust this long. I desperately need some cap action.
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Darium posted:Slicers can deff. be a pain if flown by someone with decent skills. PL guys still manage to lose 500mil+ garmurs to bubble camps and other dumb poo poo if you're smart enough to use dscan and sit inside a novice fw plex (t1 frig only) at about 25 off the warpin with a garmur you'll rack up kills like crazy though, unless someone shows up with a worm (or another garmur) at which point you just gently caress off IMO novice plexes are a great opportunity since the gating gives you enough time to get out, and the worst possible thing that will show up is a frig gang
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xilni posted:Biggest EVE regret is that I have no choice but to let my carriers gather dust this long. I desperately need some cap action. Don't you dare lose that thing trying to yolo a horde gatecamp after all the poo poo it took to get it down there
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LemonDrizzle posted:Your ishtar will do fine. If you put a target painter into one of the mids and keep it active on one of the NPCs, they'll all focus on you and ignore your drones. How does a target painter make all the npcs focus on you?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:How does a target painter make all the npcs focus on you? NPCs hate EWAR with a passion.
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This is the fit I'm currently working on. Would it be ok to replace one of the tracking links with a painter? And besides that is the rest good?
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ranbo das posted:NPCs hate EWAR with a passion. NPC's irrational hatred of ewar is hilarious. I always imagine the rats just seething hatred because someone is using ecm.
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Landsknecht posted:so yesterday I scanned some astero down and killed him with my future-space-dildo (stratios) isn't that kinda his own fault for not watching d-scan and cloaking up?
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