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[EVE] - A Game of Megathrons
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C3N for life!
Probably not so well - no damage bonus, only 1 low slot for damage mods makes me a sad suicidegankpanda
However... they'd be great for podkilling (4 mids for 1 long point and three sensor boosters)
Or just sell them/melt them down for minerals/give them away to cute newbies.
Oh, and I doubt a blaster cormorant would be completely terrible at suicide ganking, but you'd be better selling off the cormorants and buying catalysts with the ISK if you went that way.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
We haven't had a proper welp for a while.
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"The greatest trick the CFC capfleet ever pulled was convincing Eve it didn't exist"
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On a sidenote to that: I'm really interested to see what will become of the Pathfinder MMO. If it actually gets to release, and if it delivers on an "EVE-like" ground experience. Ala Ultima Online 2.0 I guess...
(Since it apparently has old EVE devs working on it with Paizo)
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Actuallly there are something like 870 titans and 4000 motherships
Good god. Too much jewing, not enough internet spaceship pewing!
Well this was disquietingly prophetic.
Cog in the machineCog HerderI might get interested into EVE online, but I just would like to know, if you can do things like that in the game.
I don't enjoy grinding npcs or trading for hours, I can't find enough time to do all that, is EVE something for me?
They were trying to take a whole constellation of whs so they could farm without threats. Most of the major wormhole alliances banded together temporarily and counter-invaded during one of their invasions and wiped the floor with them. We are fully prepared for more evictions.
B_R: I could send you a 3 week free trial if you want. Drop me a PM with your email address. Without getting into MerchI you wouldn't get the "full EVE" experience (and the highsec area PVP experience is PVE heavy), but... yeah...
As for doing stuff in game without having to worry about PVE content, well, EVE is freaking huge and sandboxy, and most people in Goonswarm, to my knowledge, don't do PVE much. However, it does take a while to get to the point where you can get Goonswarm to pay for your ships that you lose in PVP, so... I guess all I can say is "maybe."
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There's no reason not to join Merchi as a new pilot unless you just don't want to do the Nullsec warfare thing, or you dislike goons (which I can understand).
And I'm pretty sure you can be in a newbee blackbird in a couple weeks and then die and make 12m per death. The first few days do kinda suck though, since you can't really do much as you train a few vital skills. That's a good time to do the tutorials.
I will say that as a newbie you'll be somewhat reliant on others in goonspace for a month or so, simply due to the skill requirements to either fly a drake or make all your money off PI, so hopefully you like flying rifters / thrashers.
Cog in the machineCog HerderIf we made people have >1k posts to join merchi, we'd have about 6 dudes in the corp.
Cog in the machineCog HerderSeems a bit unwise to piss off a horde of people with astrometric rangefinding 5. There are a lot of ways that can go horribly, horribly wrong.
What kind of silly goose sits uncloaked in a safespot with hostiles in system? And of those people, which ones are smart enough to watch their dscan for probes? Anyone with a brain (who isn't afk) will either dock, go to a POS, or cloak up.
Just look at our killboard for lossmails.
The amount of people who do not read intel and do not scout is extraordinary.
One way or another, every fight that matters starts with a probe finding a target.
I mean, doesn't it?
No, I would imagine that sometimes someone does something provocatively retarded while they have a hostile cloaked on grid.
Nothing sweeter than being that hostile cloaked on grid.
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On the subject of combat probing, here is an ok guide. My process is a bit quicker, but it gives you an idea on how to combat scan someone in one scan. Then you take your probes off scan in case you need them again. Unless your target spams dscan in that 6-7 second window, they won't ever see it coming. This is probably more useful in whs since people don't often use dscan but still.
That was pretty funny.
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