been playing EVE off and on since its release...everytime I resub the world gets 10x more massive and interesting. Great sci fi game...should be interesting how Star Trek MMO does against it.
Originally posted by: SunnyD
I'm surprised what a T1 frigate with T1 rockets can do to 0.5sec rats.
Originally posted by: Kadarin
Originally posted by: SunnyD
I'm surprised what a T1 frigate with T1 rockets can do to 0.5sec rats.
One of my complaints about the game is that belt rats in 0.5 to 0.8 tend to be too easy unless you're brand new to the game. Even in lowsec to 0.0 they're still pretty easy.
Sleepers, on the other hand...
Originally posted by: Malladine
you null sec rat in a frigate and run lvl 4s in a cruiser?
Originally posted by: Michael
Martimus is in my corp and we often invite younger characters into a level 4 in their cruisers after we get aggro and are tanking everything. Gets them isk quickly and also gets them standings quickly.
Low sec BS rats are only 1 at a time. 0.0 ones often ruin in 3's, but even those are not terrible. I find the strong BC groups of 5 rats are what do smaller ships in, not the 3 BS rats.
Michael
Originally posted by: Martimus
Originally posted by: Malladine
you null sec rat in a frigate and run lvl 4s in a cruiser?
I do low sec ratting in a frigate on occasion, and it is actually pretty easy as BS's can't hit you and the pirate frigates aren't strong enough to do any real damage to you. I usually use my Thorax but I use my incursus on occasion as it is quicker to get from belt to belt.
As for running level 4's in a cruiser, I only do that because I can only fly a cruiser, and I only do it after I have another person start the room so they can tank all the damage. I was just saying that there is a huge difference between belt rats and mission rats, as I have never had any problems taking out a 800K ISK bounty belt rat, but taking down 800K ISK bounty mission rat can be nearly impossible in smaller ships (I actually ran out of ammo once just getting through the shields, and had to dock and buy more ammo before I could continue.)
I cannot solo a Level 4 mission, and I have only solo'd a Level 3 mission once so far (it was hard enough that I haven't tried a second one).
Originally posted by: Malladine
Originally posted by: Martimus
Originally posted by: Malladine
you null sec rat in a frigate and run lvl 4s in a cruiser?
I do low sec ratting in a frigate on occasion, and it is actually pretty easy as BS's can't hit you and the pirate frigates aren't strong enough to do any real damage to you. I usually use my Thorax but I use my incursus on occasion as it is quicker to get from belt to belt.
As for running level 4's in a cruiser, I only do that because I can only fly a cruiser, and I only do it after I have another person start the room so they can tank all the damage. I was just saying that there is a huge difference between belt rats and mission rats, as I have never had any problems taking out a 800K ISK bounty belt rat, but taking down 800K ISK bounty mission rat can be nearly impossible in smaller ships (I actually ran out of ammo once just getting through the shields, and had to dock and buy more ammo before I could continue.)
I cannot solo a Level 4 mission, and I have only solo'd a Level 3 mission once so far (it was hard enough that I haven't tried a second one).
Ah, makes sense. That's cool you rat in a frig/cruiser, I kind of rushed into the larger ships and that resulted in some expensive losses. I haven't tried ratting in low sec, only null sec. I didn't realize there were high bounty rats (800k) in low sec.
I know what you mean on the mission rats. Those T2 rat ships can be very tough, even using 5 dual 250mm rails and 5 drones against them I've found some that took several minutes to kill.
Null sec ratting was a blast imo...i hope to fit another BC for it soon.
Michael - yeah my corp does that too, not that i've really taken advantage of it.
Originally posted by: Malladine
Smart guy....
Do you just make sure to warp instantly in your pod to save the implants?
That sounds like a fun encounter...inspiring even
Originally posted by: Liet
Is it possible to fly a Concord ship yet? I remember reviewing EVE back in beta, and they gave me a gorgeous-looking Concord cruiser to roll around in, with the window down and the stereo blaring. They told me that eventually it'd be available to players.
Originally posted by: Michael
An amusing Eve story.
Our intel channel reports a small gang (10-12 BS and a few crusiers) in one of the low sec areas we control. As you need to cross high sec to get there, we arrange a couple of carriers to take a few BS out for outlaws and the guys with good enough sec status jump to the other side of the gate (in high sec).
We send a Legion in (T3 cruiser) as bait. They start shooting and get GCC (global criminal). We bring in a BS fleet maybe 1/2 thier size and one carrier for repping. We kill one of their BS and our carrier is keeping our ships alive.
They panic and deagress and jump their fleet out. To High Sec. With GCC active.
Concord has a party.
It looked like they were new characters in a corp going for a "roam" into low sec in their fleet. And they probably didn't understand the rules about leaving low sec while a criminal. So we killed a BS and a cruiser. Concord got the rest of them.
Michael
Originally posted by: Saga
Man it's those types of tactics that just seem so shady to me. Theres something midly irritating about others thinking that shooting fish in a barrel is fun. I'd prefer to simply brute force the shit out of them by hotdropping a carrier right into the middle of them to freak them the fuck out and have the other side of the gate bubbled and waiting to hotdrop another few carriers right ontop of them with support HAC and logistics.
Not to say your methods aren't effective, I just find something sort of.. I don't know, dirty feeling about preying on inexperienced high and lowseccers. At least in 0.0 there are high odds your going to face a very experienced gang and it's going to come down to skill, and not baiting another fleet into concording themselves..