EpisparhUsually a heatsink and a chaff can do miracles. Gimbaled weapons cannot hit what they cannot target and chaff is relatively effective is you run small/medium ship.
Sir-DukeEpisparhUsually a heatsink and a chaff can do miracles. Gimbaled weapons cannot hit what they cannot target and chaff is relatively effective is you run small/medium ship.
Don't forget, that this works for unskilled Gankers only.
The slightly better ones usually don't use gimballed weapons at all;
and if they still do, they just unlock the target and the gimballed becomes a fixed weapon.
EpisparhSir-DukeEpisparhUsually a heatsink and a chaff can do miracles. Gimbaled weapons cannot hit what they cannot target and chaff is relatively effective is you run small/medium ship.
Don't forget, that this works for unskilled Gankers only.
The slightly better ones usually don't use gimballed weapons at all;
and if they still do, they just unlock the target and the gimballed becomes a fixed weapon.
Untargeted "fixed" thingies do not have lead indicator on HUD. This method works only for hit scan weapons.
Burstar~~~
I'd still rather have more shields that apply to every weapon/damage type or a HS to hide with.
SakashiroTwo or three weeks ago I temporarily outfitted my T-9 for laser mining. But then I realized that I would never have the patience to fill up its huge cargo hold in a single mining session. Another problem was its poor jump range (adding travel time on top of mining time) and poor self-defense capabilities. Everyone knows how to fool the lonely NPC pirate at the beginning of a mining session, but if you log off inside the ring to continue mining later, another pirate will appear, and then your cargo hold won't be empty any more. The Python solves all these problems in a single build. It travels faster, can fight those lonely NPC pirates if necessary, and its cargo hold size is just perfect. The T-9 will remain useful as a large payload hauler, especially when I have a carrier to store commodities.
It's funny that Epi keeps mocking my multi-role builds now, because when I had specialized builds for exploration (e.g. a super-lightweight Anaconda with minimum class 3 shields to protect the hull from rough terrain), he mocked those, too.
DescartesThank's Rapis, seems like a good place to start, I'll probably go for your idea - but Saki and Burstar, what would you use
Sakashiro
If you kill clean ships and gain notoriety, you may encounter system authority ships with reverberating cascade lasers that damage your shield generator even while the shields are up. However, I found that the amount of damage is minor. And I haven't yet seen any NPCs with reverb cascade torpedoes.
Paul GlynnSakashiro
If you kill clean ships and gain notoriety, you may encounter system authority ships with reverberating cascade lasers that damage your shield generator even while the shields are up. However, I found that the amount of damage is minor. And I haven't yet seen any NPCs with reverb cascade torpedoes.
Yesterday I went to CZ and fought a little bit. When I was fighting a FAS a spec-ops wing warped in right behind me. They targeted me and dropped a salvo of approx. 11 reverb torps. I heard only the "incoming missle" and "shields offline". Then the rebuy screen showed up.
I didn't saw the NPCs using reverb lasers. I thought only stations have those.
BurstarPaul GlynnSakashiro
If you kill clean ships and gain notoriety, you may encounter system authority ships with reverberating cascade lasers that damage your shield generator even while the shields are up. However, I found that the amount of damage is minor. And I haven't yet seen any NPCs with reverb cascade torpedoes.
Yesterday I went to CZ and fought a little bit. When I was fighting a FAS a spec-ops wing warped in right behind me. They targeted me and dropped a salvo of approx. 11 reverb torps. I heard only the "incoming missle" and "shields offline". Then the rebuy screen showed up.
I didn't saw the NPCs using reverb lasers. I thought only stations have those.
That sounds more like you got ganked by players. I have yet to see an NPC that uses Reverb Torps, nor does the description of a Spec-Ops wing flying FAS sound right.
The NPC's (called Advanced Tactical Response) are a special encounter. They appear as Uber-police when you commit a crime at Notoriety 10. They are highly engineered, and have similar shield generator busting weaponry as stations use.
Paul GlynnBurstarPaul Glynn
Yesterday I went to CZ and fought a little bit. When I was fighting a FAS a spec-ops wing warped in right behind me. They targeted me and dropped a salvo of approx. 11 reverb torps. I heard only the "incoming missle" and "shields offline". Then the rebuy screen showed up.
I didn't saw the NPCs using reverb lasers. I thought only stations have those.
That sounds more like you got ganked by players. I have yet to see an NPC that uses Reverb Torps, nor does the description of a Spec-Ops wing flying FAS sound right.
The NPC's (called Advanced Tactical Response) are a special encounter. They appear as Uber-police when you commit a crime at Notoriety 10. They are highly engineered, and have similar shield generator busting weaponry as stations use.
The FAS wasnt the spec-ops, it was regular navy ship
My log says "Destroyed by spec-ops wing"
Sakashiro With a shield tank you're basically invincible in PvE, because even if you do get into trouble, you'll have plenty of time to wake out to safety before your shields go down. My Mamba is built like that and has never seen a rebuy screen.
