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evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

also i feel like immediately saying "btw no alliance assets were on that character at all" might as well be an admission everything of value in the alliance was on those accounts

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CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


It's the same thing as how every single POS with a csaa was empty when we blew it up.

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




who did he sic his slavic kneebreakers on now?

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Hexel posted:

who did he sic his slavic kneebreakers on now?

nobody, but CCP decided to send Falcon over to polygon and talk about harassment and make big claims about never tolerating it

and then they were like "whoops maybe the irl threat guy we've been turning a blind eye to doesn't exactly support that claim"


every other game studio sent polygon flat boilerplate statements, or declined to answer questions. because they're not stupid.

Sentinel
Jan 1, 2009

High Tech
Low Life


So as someone wanting to resub. This means wrecking ball is gone?
Ive been away 2 years ish

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Sentinel posted:

So as someone wanting to resub. This means wrecking ball is gone?
Ive been away 2 years ish

long gone and if someone tried it we'd drop a fleet of titans on it and wreck it

Gwyneth Palpate
Jun 7, 2010

Do you want your breadcrumbs highlighted?

~SMcD

Sentinel posted:

So as someone wanting to resub. This means wrecking ball is gone?
Ive been away 2 years ish

Yep. Carriers can't use sentry drones, or any drone other than fighters now. Fighters are now World of Warships/Homeworld style and the term "APM" actually applies to them, especially for supercarriers, who can launch 5 flights to the normal carrier's 3. They also divorced triage and remote rep from carriers and supercarriers into a new ship class, Force Auxiliaries. Triage reduces your damage to zero, so all FAX can do is heal and die. Capital remote reps are worse than large reps outside of triage, too, so you can't just shoehorn them onto carriers/supercarriers anyways and expect to do any good.

Kimsemus
Dec 4, 2013

by Reene
Toilet Rascal
for some reason I am still banned on the goonfleet auth :[

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




Kimsemus posted:

for some reason I am still banned on the goonfleet auth :[

video game fishing is serious business

TheQuietWilds
Sep 8, 2009
It looks like off-grid boosting has been dead for two years, so if I'm coming back into this game should I turn all my T2 leadership skills into injectors and put them into something else or keep them? The guy who has them flys a lovely tengu and/or command ship with marginal support or weapon skills.

Dalael
Oct 14, 2014
Hello. Yep, I still think Atlantis is Bolivia, yep, I'm still a giant idiot, yep, I'm still a huge racist. Some things never change!

TheQuietWilds posted:

It looks like off-grid boosting has been dead for two years, so if I'm coming back into this game should I turn all my T2 leadership skills into injectors and put them into something else or keep them? The guy who has them flys a lovely tengu and/or command ship with marginal support or weapon skills.

Offgrid boosting isn't a thing anymore, but ongrid boosting is.
This is literally the extent of my knowledge when it comes to boosts.

Paging Querns since he became the new :ullerrm:

Roller Coast Guard
Aug 27, 2006

With this magnificent aircraft,
and my magnificent facial hair,
the British Empire will never fall!


Dalael posted:

Offgrid boosting isn't a thing anymore, but ongrid boosting is.
This is literally the extent of my knowledge when it comes to boosts.

Paging Querns since he became the new :ullerrm:

Boosting is now pretty much like flying a Hictor and everyone inside your bubble gets the fleet bonus instead of being tackled.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Boosting is now an AoE thing. You still have the same categories you used to have, but instead of a single module for a single boost, you have the category module and consumable scripts for that specific boost. Anything outside of your boost range fails to get the buff.

Alternately:

Roller Coast Guard posted:

Boosting is now pretty much like flying a Hictor and everyone inside your bubble gets the fleet bonus instead of being tackled.

but it's only when the module activates, not continuous.

TheQuietWilds
Sep 8, 2009

Roller Coast Guard posted:

Boosting is now pretty much like flying a Hictor and everyone inside your bubble gets the fleet bonus instead of being tackled.

Ok but is a boosting alt still useful? I figure it would be better to just dump it all into Tengu related things or start him towards a Carrier. I used to use it either to solo Maze with a Ishtar or C4 sleepers with a Rattlesnake, but I dont think either of those is a real thing anymore. If it's really clutch for goon fleet ops I'd keep it though.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


TheQuietWilds posted:

Ok but is a boosting alt still useful? I figure it would be better to just dump it all into Tengu related things or start him towards a Carrier. I used to use it either to solo Maze with a Ishtar or C4 sleepers with a Rattlesnake, but I dont think either of those is a real thing anymore. If it's really clutch for goon fleet ops I'd keep it though.

Nope.

moon demon
Sep 11, 2001

of the moon, of the dream
boostin owns. never not be boostin

Pomp
Apr 3, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
You won't get a 1:1 so conversion, and it gets worse the more you have. Weigh your choices before you decide what to do with those boosters

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Boosting is useful

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



boostin makes me feel good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE

Ynglaur
Oct 9, 2013

The Malta Conference, anyone?
If your carrier boosts, do fighters get more HP, etc.? My fighters keep dying because pressing w is hard.

Sentinel
Jan 1, 2009

High Tech
Low Life


I just resubed. If Glorious Goonfleet will have me, just point me at the thing to shoot.
I forgot i became cap capable right before i unsubbed last.

Aaah the Game Of Games.

Alkabob
May 31, 2011
I would like to speak to the manager about the socialists, please

Sentinel posted:

I just resubed. If Glorious Goonfleet will have me, just point me at the thing to shoot.
I forgot i became cap capable right before i unsubbed last.

Aaah the Game Of Games.

Sundering is recruiting.

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


Sentinel posted:

I just resubed. If Glorious Goonfleet will have me, just point me at the thing to shoot.
I forgot i became cap capable right before i unsubbed last.

Aaah the Game Of Games.

and in a week...

Sentinel posted:

I just remembered why I unsubed. Glorious Goonfleet is sapping my will to live from structure shoots and endless ratting.
I forgot i became cap capable right before i unsubbed last and immediately lost my first to a Blood Dread.

Aaah kill me now.

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Is there like a news service I can read to get regular updates on whether or not we're winning the war/what the gently caress else is going on in the galaxy? So far all I have to judge how the war's going is the occasional fleet where we go smash up a starbase unopposed and a very occasional fight which I guess means we're winning, but that's just one rookie's personal experience so for all I can prove we're getting our asses kicked on the strategic level and it bugs me that I don't know.

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


Crazycryodude posted:

Is there like a news service I can read to get regular updates on whether or not we're winning the war/what the gently caress else is going on in the galaxy? So far all I have to judge how the war's going is the occasional fleet where we go smash up a starbase unopposed and a very occasional fight which I guess means we're winning, but that's just one rookie's personal experience so for all I can prove we're getting our asses kicked on the strategic level and it bugs me that I don't know.

Are you logged onto goonfleet.com? Because there is a thread in The War Room that does literally that, with a constantly updating OP with the results of the day's activities summarized.

Gwyneth Palpate
Jun 7, 2010

Do you want your breadcrumbs highlighted?

~SMcD

Crazycryodude posted:

Is there like a news service I can read to get regular updates on whether or not we're winning the war/what the gently caress else is going on in the galaxy? So far all I have to judge how the war's going is the occasional fleet where we go smash up a starbase unopposed and a very occasional fight which I guess means we're winning, but that's just one rookie's personal experience so for all I can prove we're getting our asses kicked on the strategic level and it bugs me that I don't know.

https://goonfleet.com/index.php/topic/251962-continual-war-update-thread/

This gets updated with every dinky structure we murder and every fleet, regardless if we win or lose.

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Crazycryodude posted:

Is there like a news service I can read to get regular updates on whether or not we're winning the war/what the gently caress else is going on in the galaxy? So far all I have to judge how the war's going is the occasional fleet where we go smash up a starbase unopposed and a very occasional fight which I guess means we're winning, but that's just one rookie's personal experience so for all I can prove we're getting our asses kicked on the strategic level and it bugs me that I don't know.

https://imperium.news/

Dalael
Oct 14, 2014
Hello. Yep, I still think Atlantis is Bolivia, yep, I'm still a giant idiot, yep, I'm still a huge racist. Some things never change!

Fake news
Totally biased

Won't cover mittaniatfanfestwiththewizardhat

DarkHorse
Dec 13, 2006

Nap Ghost

Bilirubin posted:

Are you logged onto goonfleet.com? Because there is a thread in The War Room that does literally that, with a constantly updating OP with the results of the day's activities summarized.

Counterpoint: I'd have to log on to goonfleet.com

Last time I played was when DBRB was a drunken FC I think, let's hope I don't break my streak now

Dog Pipes
Jan 17, 2015

Crazycryodude posted:

Is there like a news service I can read to get regular updates on whether or not we're winning the war/what the gently caress else is going on in the galaxy? So far all I have to judge how the war's going is the occasional fleet where we go smash up a starbase unopposed and a very occasional fight which I guess means we're winning, but that's just one rookie's personal experience so for all I can prove we're getting our asses kicked on the strategic level and it bugs me that I don't know.

I'd always just assumed we had to be flying doctrine ships for strat ops. Can I just turn up in my Atron and 'help'?

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

If you CAN fly doctrine stuff, DO fly doctrine stuff, but if you can't, and it's not something like a stealth bomber or instaceptor fleet where having the wrong ship along will gently caress everything up, don't feel like you have to sit something out because you don't have a proper doctrine ship.

Sometimes if a fleet is really full, people in non-standard stuff will get asked to drop fleet to make more room, but that's about it.

L0cke17
Nov 29, 2013

Dog Pipes posted:

I'd always just assumed we had to be flying doctrine ships for strat ops. Can I just turn up in my Atron and 'help'?

As a newbee the number one best ship to train for any fleet is the Vigil. Get minmatar frigate 4, train target painting, signature focusing to 4 as well. I believe long distance jamming and frequency modulation also affect paints as well? So train them to 4 also. That'll be a few days but vigils are the number one most useful frigate by far because they help your fleet do more damage to the enemy fleet.

Just put your target painters on whoever the FC broadcasts and you get on every killmail and do a ton of good for your fleet. Every fleet (with a few exceptions) should have 2-5 vigils along.

Dog Pipes
Jan 17, 2015

Ok, cheers. I've trained up the crucifier and mauler, so vigil is next up. Just want to get a few kills to help my confidence, I feel kinda lame asking for help all the time.

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Don't. Anyone who tells you they played Eve and were doing well at the start with no help or support structure are lying.

Carth Dookie
Jan 28, 2013

CainFortea posted:

Don't. Anyone who tells you they played Eve and were doing well at the start with no help or support structure are lying.

Or think that figuring out how to mine/grind missions in highsec constitutes "doing well."

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Dog Pipes posted:

Ok, cheers. I've trained up the crucifier and mauler, so vigil is next up. Just want to get a few kills to help my confidence, I feel kinda lame asking for help all the time.

You cannot do anything of importance in EVE without other people, and you basically can't figure EVE out enough to have fun on your own. Anyone playing eve got help when they were starting out, and any group in EVE functions only by being able to recruit new people so they want to help.

Pomp
Apr 3, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
What's the best ship for solo WH ganking now?

Edit: Google was telling me stratios but I'm not trusting Google with that much isk

Pomp fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Sep 5, 2018

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Pomp posted:

What's the best ship for solo WH ganking now?

Edit: Google was telling me stratios but I'm not trusting Google with that much isk

If a stratios is too much isk for you to risk, then you're asking the wrong question. You're going to die a lot before you get the hang of it so start with something you can afford to lose repeatedly.

Pomp
Apr 3, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
I mean I'll risk that much isk, just not because Google told me it's a good idea

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notaspy
Mar 22, 2009

Gwyneth Palpate posted:

https://goonfleet.com/index.php/topic/251962-continual-war-update-thread/

This gets updated with every dinky structure we murder and every fleet, regardless if we win or lose.

How does a banned for j4g person get access to that?

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