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Think ill just go with the 14 now on steam, prefer to play on steam for some reason, i just dont like having my pc clogged up with lots of different things, got origin hi rez for tribes, downloader for trackmania Core client for blacklight, to many things!XD
Another days training and I will have all the recomend skills for my Thorax and will be taking that bad lad out to cause some mayhem
I like the rax. It's pretty underrated. I fly mine shield gank. It is a monster and happily chews through Ruptures (the benchmark T1 cruiser).
Nice vid and it makes me miss EVE. What it doesn't show is the FC shouting targets, someone taking over when the FC has to warp out, or gets popped, and the enteral insanity of a fleet fight.
The best one I was ever in was against the Goons and friends and it was something like 500 vs 500 on a gate and the lag was insane but manageable. I was in a Vaga popping their support. I died that day but had a lot of fun for something like an hour before I did.
Had a nice fight on Sunday vs TEST and some of their renters. Was the end of an RvB roam and everyone wanted to die in a fire and get podded home so we camped one of their gates and made no secret of it, we were even passing info on to one of their fleet. They knew exactly what we had (tier 1 BCs and support, no logi) They didn't actually match our numbers but brought scimis, drakes and support, jumped into us, and we basically tore them up. Great fun.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12356725
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12356725
I reactivated one of my very old noob accounts and put the toon into RvB. Went out for a little run around with them last night - much fun was had even though its just hi sec warfare. For someone as inexperienced as I, it was a great laugh.
A good PVE resource for missions is eve survival.
http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports
http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports
Any good guides on moving up the mission tiers?
When I played previously I just basically PVP'd in rubbish fit frigates and minedCheers
L1s you can do in pretty much anything that is optimised for shooting frigs.
If you're starting a new toon, a shield dessie is rather good.
L2s you've still got a similar target mix but somewhat more deeps incoming. If your skills are low-ish then you'll want a cruiser. I think with a high SP toon you could probably do them in a frig
L3s you've got a lot more cruisers. A BC is probably about optimum in terms of having a good tank and cruiser sized weaponry. A CS or HAC will be winning too. Frigs start scramming here so make sure you have T2 drones.
L4s you're looking at some missions with a lot of battleships, some with more cruisers. A really tanky BC is about the minimum I'd recommend.
A passive shield BC sized hull is good. Now you can fit a prop-mod, I would.
A BS that tanks about 5-600 dps is also acceptable. BS-wise I'd consider something quite ganky once you get the hang of handling aggro. If I was doing L4s still I think I'd bring something with at least 7-800 DPS if I brought a BS.
There's a real difference when you can just happily blat through a L4 rather than only just breaking somethings tank.
Something like a Drake or Myrm will happily go from L2 right up to L4.
Read Eve Survival etc. to see what the triggers are for NPC spawn.
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There weren't many L4 missions I couldn't chew my way through in a decent fit Drake but it was so much quicker in a Nighthawk. My usual trick was to warp in, take agro and just pick everything off at my leisure. Damsel being one of my favourites as everything was really close in and I could come back in a salvager afterwards and collect everything without moving!
I tried using a Raven/CNR but preferred the NH.
I tried using a Raven/CNR but preferred the NH.
When i ran missions was really lazy....just set up my proteus or ishtar and t2 heavys out and go afk
Good:
Matched guns using the ships bonus
Cruiser sized armour rep
Afterburner
Reactor Control Unit
Solid start there.
Bad:
200mm plates are for frigs. If you're going to plate a cruiser I'd say really it's 800/1600mm or don't bother. This is partly because a plate gives you a flat HP increase. Increasing the resists will probably yield more total Effective Hit Points than a frig plate.
Look at the bonuses for Power Diags, Reactor Controls and the Micro Auxillary Power Core. The MAPC provides you with a FLAT INCREASE. While this is awesome on a frig the flat where the flat increase is more than the % increase would be, on a cruiser the flat increase is less than the % bonus would be.
Now typically for PVE if you're fitting a rep you want resists to maximise it's effectiveness. The HP the rep puts back is a flat quantity but you can reduce the % of damage your armour takes by boosting it's resist. This has the net result of you tanking more incoming DPS.
You shouldn't really need a plate on top of your active tank for PVE.
I also wouldn't bother sticking a Medium Shield Extender (again, this is a frig mod - confusingly because of it's name) in a mid. Consider a propulsion mod and two cap rechargers or prop mod, a single cap recharger and a web for stuff that gets close in.
Don't fit cargo expanders on combat ships.
You could also look at guns, prop mod, two large shield extenders and lows full of magnetic field stabilisers. Might work, might not.
Also generally, drone boats are better than gunboats for missions.
Matched guns using the ships bonus
Cruiser sized armour rep
Afterburner
Reactor Control Unit
Solid start there.
Bad:
200mm plates are for frigs. If you're going to plate a cruiser I'd say really it's 800/1600mm or don't bother. This is partly because a plate gives you a flat HP increase. Increasing the resists will probably yield more total Effective Hit Points than a frig plate.
Look at the bonuses for Power Diags, Reactor Controls and the Micro Auxillary Power Core. The MAPC provides you with a FLAT INCREASE. While this is awesome on a frig the flat where the flat increase is more than the % increase would be, on a cruiser the flat increase is less than the % bonus would be.
Now typically for PVE if you're fitting a rep you want resists to maximise it's effectiveness. The HP the rep puts back is a flat quantity but you can reduce the % of damage your armour takes by boosting it's resist. This has the net result of you tanking more incoming DPS.
You shouldn't really need a plate on top of your active tank for PVE.
I also wouldn't bother sticking a Medium Shield Extender (again, this is a frig mod - confusingly because of it's name) in a mid. Consider a propulsion mod and two cap rechargers or prop mod, a single cap recharger and a web for stuff that gets close in.
Don't fit cargo expanders on combat ships.
You could also look at guns, prop mod, two large shield extenders and lows full of magnetic field stabilisers. Might work, might not.
Also generally, drone boats are better than gunboats for missions.
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Cheers
I am training some drone skills up so I should be able to slap 5 x medium drones in there to help me out.
Will do some fiddling around and drop a new build in.
Thinking of re-subbing my account (been playing STO and SWTOR for a bit, but it just makes me want to play a more in-depth space game) but I just realised I sold all my assets and gave ~1 billion isk to a friend who no longer plays xD
My character has 5 million SP and can fly Exhumers, including having all the Engineering V etc etc, so could easily start training a different route - i.e. combat.
I'm just wondering whether to start a new account from scratch or dive back into a character that has no ship/isk xD What do you think?
My character has 5 million SP and can fly Exhumers, including having all the Engineering V etc etc, so could easily start training a different route - i.e. combat.
I'm just wondering whether to start a new account from scratch or dive back into a character that has no ship/isk xD What do you think?
No point in wasting time restarting IMO, your old charecter will have 'some' skills that will still be useful and you never know you may return to doing some mining at some time in your career.