[EVE] The War Thread

[l0z]

Originally Posted by Wodin

True, but flying interdictors takes nearly 3M SP just for the skills required(Destroyer V, Propulsion Jamming V, Interceptor IV) and 100m+ worth of skillbooks(gotta love the reduced Graviton Physics rate). Interdictors are amazingly fun and I definitely enjoy flying mine, but it's definitely not a low-SP option.

True, but that's really all you *need* to be useful as an interdictor pilot, whereas many other combat ships require a significant time investment in weapon/repair systems as well. Most decent corps will also help cover the cost of the Grav Physics book. So really, dictors are a much lower skill intense fleet-support option than one might initially think. It's a really good step up from 'ceptors.

[Dildo Faggins]

Originally Posted by l0z

True, but that's really all you *need* to be useful as an interdictor pilot, whereas many other combat ships require a significant time investment in weapon/repair systems as well. Most decent corps will also help cover the cost of the Grav Physics book. So really, dictors are a much lower skill intense fleet-support option than one might initially think. It's a really good step up from 'ceptors.

Interceptors are a logical stepping stone to interdictors. Lots of overlapping skils.

[Kazgrim]

as well as interceptors being a requirement for interdictors

[WillzZz]

Dictor pilots are my favorite buddies to form gangs with ;p They're kind of like the clerics of eve. Suddenly your bubble(dictor) has to leave and the gang dissipates because it's a pain in the ass to camp someplace without a bubble. You could do it, but everybody is whining and trying to find another dictor. They're always welcome in gangs, always coddled when they're needed and always the most important piece of the puzzle when things are clicking...

Kinda makes me want to train for a sabre.

[Bottle]

Originally Posted by WillTR

Dictor pilots are my favorite buddies to form gangs with ;p They're kind of like the clerics of eve. Suddenly your bubble(dictor) has to leave and the gang dissipates because it's a pain in the ass to camp someplace without a bubble. You could do it, but everybody is whining and trying to find another dictor. They're always welcome in gangs, always coddled when they're needed and always the most important piece of the puzzle when things are clicking...

Kinda makes me want to train for a sabre.

Can be a thankless job when you hear complaints coming down TS.

"Why wasn't the bubble down in time?"

"How did you frigs not get points on that ship?"

I never fly tacklers. Sleipnir all the way. I also like to complain about sucky tacklers.

[Dildo Faggins]

Originally Posted by Bottle

Can be a thankless job when you hear complaints coming down TS.

"Why wasn't the bubble down in time?"

"How did you frigs not get points on that ship?"

I never fly tacklers. Sleipnir all the way. I also like to complain about sucky tacklers.

Yeah, dictors take a lot of heat from both sides in a battle. They can drop a bubble and be blammed for trapping people just as quickly as they can be praised for doing their job, and everyone and their uncle out of a sniper battleship is going to make you their primary.

[WillzZz]

haha yeah, again just like clerics =P

PS Wish I could fly a sleipnir =( Talk about a solopwnmobile

[Bottle]

Originally Posted by WillTR

haha yeah, again just like clerics =P

PS Wish I could fly a sleipnir =( Talk about a solopwnmobile

Dude. I love it so much I'm going for Command Ship V.

A friend and I took our Sleips out in Deklein. BS's don't last long when two Sleips put their ac's on them.

[Tripamang]

War Updates! Zomg

Southern front....

United Legion went back to POS spamming K-9 to draw BoB attention away from 9-9, much to their surprise we have quite a few larges just laying around and we anchored more to counter their attempt. Depending on how the next few days go K-9 could be a real hotspot with BoB really wanting to keep hostiles out of feyth and their forward position open for attack deeper into coalition territory.

[Tolanin]

KOS also tried to pos spam AZN, they forgot tho that towers need to be fueled and onlined for this to work.

3 towers were destroyed after they were anchored but not brought online. 2 others that they did manage to online were put into reinforced. The freighter they were using to drop the pos towers was bowled out of one of the POSs and destroyed.

In other news 9-98 flipped to BNC this morning.

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Originally Posted by Tolanin

The freighter they were using to drop the pos towers was bowled out of one of the POSs and destroyed.

heh, I hear tale it was bumped out by a titan.

[Tripamang]

Originally Posted by ...

heh, I hear tale it was bumped out by a titan.

pos bowling = motherships+titans

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makes sense then!

[Chinaman889]

All I know is, as I was shooting those offlined POSs in AZN, the 9-9 offensive was still going on. Whether or not UNL's K-9 attempt + the KOS tower attempt was enough to divert enough pressure away from 9-9, that waits to be seen.

[Wodin]

That's what bowling means, yes. You warp a Titan or Mothership into the POS shields and anything that they touch goes flying due to EVE's wonky physics model, but the Titan/Mothership is unaffected because the POS warp disruptors can't hold it down, so there are precisely zero consequences for doing it. You can't even fight back because it's inside the POS bubble, so you can't target it.