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Rajere
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Posted - 2009.01.05 09:02:00 -
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The answer to most of your questions depends on what you are using it for.
Quote: 1. Shield & Armor remote repping-concentrate on one or have both?
1 Shield 1 Armor
Quote: 2. High slots- smart bombs or drone link modules? is fielding more drones or fighters better?
After Heavy Neuts & Remote Reps, Drone Control Modules = Hotdropping, otherwise don't fit them.
Quote: 3. A dozen fighters & hundreds of heavy tec2 & medium drones or more fighters & less normal drones or just a sensible numbers of both?
Generally 13-15 assorted fighters and the remaining drone bay is for T1 & T2 drones. Don't forget Ogre I's, they're basically free and chew through sub-caps when they decide to shoot at your fighters/T2 ogres.
Quote: 4. How do you fit your Thanatos?- faction or tec2?
T2, faction will not save you, ever.
Quote: 5. EANM's or just tec2 passive hardeners- opinions please?
Either EANMs or active Hardeners, generally EANMs.
Sorry for loads of questions but the deeper I get into cap ships the more questions I seem to uncover. Thanks for any help & a Happy New year to all of you. -------------------------- NOTR *nsfw* |
Rajere
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Posted - 2009.01.07 08:07:00 -
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Edited by: Rajere on 07/01/2009 08:07:54
Quote: This is not a true statement. If you're planning on going into cap fleet battles, it probably is, but if you are doing small scale, ~66 mil for 3x faction EANMs is more than worth it.
Nope, you're wrong. Well, it's true 99.9% of the time. 1 carrier out of a thousand who lives because they fit a faction tank where they would have died otherwise with a T2 tank sounds about right. And don't even pull out some bs about "small scale" like that magically changes what can kill capital ships, small gang pvp is all that I do. -------------------------- NOTR *nsfw* |
Rajere
No Trademark Notoriety Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.07 10:07:00 -
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I think you mean over-confidence? That thing that results in carrier losses? This isn't rocket science here guys, you warp your carrier to a belt or a gate or whatever then the probability of you dying has F#ckall to do with your fit and everything to do with the size and composition of the enemy gang in relation to yours. For a Thanatos, to use an example, the only time you can actually claim that the faction tank saved you is when you are able to escape from a situation where you would have died (due to killing the enemy tacklers/slowboating out of a bubble, reinforcements arriving, etc) at 12% Structure or less. Then and only then is when having that faction tank fitted enabled you to escape where you would have otherwise died. -------------------------- NOTR *nsfw* |
Rajere
No Trademark Notoriety Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.07 10:42:00 -
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Originally by: Sokratesz You are right and I wasn't trying to disprove you, fittings matter very little. But they have an added effect of aiding in morale and confidence and as any historian can tell you, those matter quite a lot :)
It's a double edged sword :P
Maybe it's different in large fleets, or shield tanked carriers who maybe don't have as much support in said fleets as you'd like, but for small scale stuff, wasting isk on modules which have virtually no impact whatsoever on my ship is like the opposite of boosting my morale/confidence. We kill carriers pretty regularly, most t2 fit, some faction fit, some comedy fit for travel or whatev (cargo expanders and/or pure cap recharge), even some which triaged and honestly it does not matter, at all. The moment they put themselves in a situation where they could be killed, they were killed, period. No amount of isk spent on faction/deadspace/etc modules has or would have changed the outcome.
I get all the confidence I need the moment our initial tackler says "point on carrier." -------------------------- NOTR *nsfw* |
Rajere
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Posted - 2009.01.07 11:13:00 -
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forever. Also the shield boost penalty comes into play on shield tanked carriers so use best named instead of t2 if you're not using faction. -------------------------- NOTR *nsfw* |
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