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Garp said:
Oh .. and 18 ships? Thats a rather small fleet, you must have only been facing one of the minor wings :confused:
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Ah well think i've seen Garp ont eh OCuk Channel but will join the other one as well. I had to laugh at the comment above :) 18ships = a minor wing lol thats the size of the corp i'm in :D I'll look at the forums cheers chaps.
 
@ [TW]Fox, where abouts did you get killed by the guy mate. We are currently at war with a corp who made the same mistake yesterday, they popped a flagged dude, and promptly got pooned by concorde!

Well i dont know if anyone is interested, but our war is in full swing, we had 25 hostiles camping our home system lastnight, looked pretty nasty. We lost a couple of kessies and a cruiser of some description.
However we waited until a little later, most of their fleet logged and we managed to find an apoc of theirs camping the jita gate at 150k, a little tinkering with a cov-ops ship, we warped into him with a couple of kessies, ceptor and a raven and pooned his butt :D.
When looting the can i was supprised to find a pure gank setup sitting out there on his own, 4 t2 tacyons (L), 1 medium beam t2, tracking comp t2, tracking enchancer t2. Then i checked the killmail to see that my uber kessie of doooooooooooooom got the kill, and we also destroyed approximately 100 mills worth of fittings ontop of the stuff i looted.
So basically our losses total circa 30m and theirs circa 270m. Looks like the "mercs" are getting their butts handed to them :D
 
DanSolo said:
When looting the can i was supprised to find a pure gank setup sitting out there on his own, 4 t2 tacyons (L), 1 medium beam t2, tracking comp t2, tracking enchancer t2.
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Wha... he was gate camping in a gank setup?! Thats so stupid thats almost unbelieveable!
 
DanSolo said:
@ [TW]Fox, where abouts did you get killed by the guy mate. We are currently at war with a corp who made the same mistake yesterday, they popped a flagged dude, and promptly got pooned by concorde!
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Tash Murkon Prime :)
 
Lostcorpse said:
SOoo how many time roughly have you been pod killed? i've been Podded about 3 times. the last time was a bit expensive for my liking.
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Been put into a pod by hostiles probably 6 or 7 times that I remember.
Been actually podkilled by hostiles, maybe twice?

I've lost count of what number clone I'm on though, partly as I'm lazy and have been known to clonejump between empire and 0.0 space.
 
A quick PvP question. Are all the gate campers likely to be well setup, well enough to take out a casual player if they fight back? My current setup is a thorax, 1.1K shield, 5.5K armour, medium shield repairer, 5x 125 rails and 7 heavy drones. How likely am I to win a fight against a gate camper, and is it even worth fighting back?

I'm currently running missions with one system which is a low sec system, Reblier, but I don't have insta's setup. I can run level 3 missions, and annoyingly they keep cropping up in Reblier, so I want to be able to do the missions, rather than keep turning them down. Getting into the system isn't so much of a problem, but getting out without getting toasted is a pain!

On the subject of insta's, I'm struggling to set them up. I've tried dropping a can, and traveling 13-15K beyond my destination in my direction of travel, and setting a bookmark, but it just drops me to my standard warp point, so I'm more than a little confused! Any guidance for me?
 
I to wold like to know about the Gates and Instant jumps.

Archangelus i'd say its better for you to run, than head for them and take them on. Espcalially when some of the campers sit at 130km from gate *Cough* Rancer *Cough* and kill your ship and pod. Also you tend to hind the Gate campers in BatleCruisers, Battleships or generally Tech 2 stuff. Also depends on how many of them there are, Obviously 1 thorax VS 4 BattleShips isn't a good comination for the Thorax.

BTW what weapons have a range of 130km and can be mounted on a megathone?
 
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Hi, regarding your question on attacking gatecampers in a 'Rax:

As with most scenarios in eve.. It depends. However,the simple answer I think is No, If it were the case that a well fitted cruiser could take a gate camp, then that gate camp would incredibly poor, what would they do if a couple of Battleships were to jump in?

Concerning Instas: just go 10km behind the place that you would like to come out of warp, hit People and Places tab and create a bookmark, practice on some stargates, u'll find after a go or two you will be making perfect instas. Then all you do is right click in space, select the insta and select warp to within 15km.

Also I see you are shield tanking your Thorax. In my opinion it is best Armor tanked, sorry if this is patronising and you are aware of this, but Tanking is the process in which you absorb damage into your shields or armor. The Thorax can be armor tanked very nicely and doesnt drain your cap like shield tanking will, not to say that shield tanking is inferior in general, just the 'Rax is better armor tanked imo.

Hope that helps
 
Antecer said:
Hi, regarding your question on attacking gatecampers in a 'Rax:

As with most scenarios in eve.. It depends. However,the simple answer I think is No, If it were the case that a well fitted cruiser could take a gate camp, then that gate camp would incredibly poor, what would they do if a couple of Battleships were to jump in?

Concerning Instas: just go 10km behind the place that you would like to come out of warp, hit People and Places tab and create a bookmark, practice on some stargates, u'll find after a go or two you will be making perfect instas. Then all you do is right click in space, select the insta and select warp to within 15km.

Also I see you are shield tanking your Thorax. In my opinion it is best Armor tanked, sorry if this is patronising and you are aware of this, but Tanking is the process in which you absorb damage into your shields or armor. The Thorax can be armor tanked very nicely and doesnt drain your cap like shield tanking will, not to say that shield tanking is inferior in general, just the 'Rax is better armor tanked imo.

Hope that helps
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I don't find it patronising at all, I'm learning as I go, and all advice is taken on board thankfully :) I am armour tanking, 5.5k hp and 1.1K shield, with a 1600mm steel and 400mm nanofibre plate in place, and a couple of entrylevel energised things. I'm using a medium armour repairer, not a shield booster (my bad in the original post) and I'm working towards hardners, but they need the next level hull upgrades.

Thanks for the help on insta's. I've been bookmarking the station/gate using the overview, so I know where I've been going wrong now, same with safe spots. Easy when you know how :) One more question. If you have 5 jumps to make, and have insta's for all the gates, I assume you can use the instas as autopilot waypoints?
 
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