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Milo Caman
Gallente
Ghost Festival
Naraka.
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Posted - 2009.11.14 18:02:00 -
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 Originally by: Ubik Null
There is also a mentor channel, I think it's just Mentor, where you can connect with a more senior player.
My, someone's heard of us.
Channel name is Mentors. We Run T1 frigate roams for nubs on occasions. You might like to come along on those and well- mess some **** up. 
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.19 14:24:00 -
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Dayà..Not to sure been drinking a bunch of boostersàman are they good
The past couple days have been excited and I have learned a lot.
Went into null sec one night and was gate camping in my Kestrel. I got to excited when I finally saw someone approaching the gate. I started firing all I had at this sucker without even looking at what I was up against. It prolly was a cruiser or battle cruzier of some type as it was very slow. I was doing pretty good had it to about 50% shields when he dropped some sort of ôoh no you donÆt warp away ô blue bomb in my area. I was warp scramd and couldnÆt go anywhere. Died and podded.
Got into a corp, which will not be named and left it last night. The leader and the recruiter blew my ship up twice ôby accidentö. It was more of stupity. We were flying around and they were taking pot shots at everyone and they kept shooting my ship even after armor was broken.
Some pirates tried ransoming the corp out of 500m or threatened to war dec us. They didnÆt pay (neither would I) but even though our leader was ôthe manö that had ôawesome shipsö and ôlots of ô friends that said they would protect a smaller corp like us if we joined their alliance, the entire corp was stuck at station for an entire day. àààword to the wiseà.dont talk like youÆre the man and then chicken outààoh by the way it was ONE guy camping the station and he still gave commands not to leave.
Just to give you an idea of this guy, he said he has been hunting and playing in worm holes for 4-5 yearsàà.yea WH were just released this year moron.
After getting two ships blown up by my own corp I was ****ed and went into nullsec to shoot back at people. Got into two fights. The first was with an arbirtor, he launched his drones and I said ôcya laterö and warped out. I then got into a fight with a punisher and took him to about 30-50% of his armor then he warped out. I learned a great deal between these two fights and have some great ideas as to fit my ships in the method I want to play.
Got experience in a roam and learned how to follow orders while roaming and the thigns they are looking for. Saved my fleet from getting massacred by paying attention to local chat while they were not.
Last night I started learning how to exploreà..wowààthe money could be rolling inàà.I found 2 ladar sites, a mag site and tons of cosmic annomilies (I know the CAÆs arenÆt that big of a deal).
I announced what I found to my corp only to get a chicken answer from the CEOààdo you know how hard the rats areà..we cant take just 2 ships in on a high sec CSààbull crap youÆre a moronàà
Anyway, there were a couple guys in there that were cool but if the top is a moron, well the corp will be a moronic corp as well.
As of today looking for a good corp and an explorer partner on EST time zone. I can find them but I need someone with analyzer / hacking skillz
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mettisitis sindicis
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Posted - 2009.11.19 15:10:00 -
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Wait, you're going around picking fights and you don't even have warp scrams fitted?
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.19 15:17:00 -
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Edited by: BolsterBomb on 19/11/2009 15:17:31
no I did but he was out of my scram range at the time...Immoving to go for awarp dsrputer now instead, becuse y strategy is to stay outside the 12km range
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Tau Cabalander
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.11.19 15:54:00 -
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Edited by: Tau Cabalander on 19/11/2009 15:54:38
Originally by: BolsterBomb
I was doing pretty good had it to about 50% shields when he dropped some sort of ôoh no you donÆt warp away ô blue bomb in my area. I was warp scramd and couldnÆt go anywhere. Died and podded.
Sounds like an Interdiction Sphere from a destroyer class Interdictor.
Your adventures are a good read
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Zartanic
Red Federation
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Posted - 2009.11.19 16:06:00 -
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I love posts like these. Then I can point them to players who say 'waaah you have to play for weeks before you can do anything and you'll never catch up with the vets waaaah'
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.19 16:44:00 -
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The biggest thing I am finding is everyone has an opinion on how to play. Take what ppl say and trim it down. Doing all learning skillz will be a bore, but if you dont do a lot now you will suffer later... If you have played MMOs before the classes or types of combat characters are similiar....
you have paper ships, tanks, dps machines, etc. Take that knowledge and use it to build a ship you want to play.
Knowing what each ship bonuses are allows you to build arond that play style, then fill in the holes. New players will not be able t go out and pop people, but you can still have fun and give ppl a run for their money.
EVE is so big and you can do so much but you cant do everything.
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SupaKudoRio
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Posted - 2009.11.19 17:17:00 -
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BolsterBomb, can you get ingame? A friend of mine wants to talk to you.
Also: Welcome to EVE.
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.19 17:21:00 -
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supa ~ sorry I cant I am at work but feel free to email me at
[email protected]
otherwise I am on in the evenings est time
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Adeleine
Caldari
Sateenvarjo
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Posted - 2009.11.19 23:59:00 -
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I'm looking at your skills you posted and they look like you might use this information:
- Theres two kinds of lauchers that use standard missiles. The better ones are called assault missile lauchers and they fire more often, hence to more damage. They require little more from ship when fitting tought.
- Instead of using afterburners you might want to train and use microwarp drives. They are a lot faster and you really want speed in your frigate.
- Instead of training shield skills you might want to train mechanical and navigation skills.
-- Mechanical skills allow you do put item in your low slot that reduces armor but makes your ship go faster. With the speed combined with the mwd mentioned earlier you should be able to run away from the big ships and in some cases their bullets too.
-- Navigation skills make your ship turn faster, warp faster and such. All very usefull when you have to escape.
- also when fitting a frigate you really dont want to put shields there. I would rather put warp scramblers, webfiers and those nice items that prevent others from shooting. They are mostly in electronic skills.
... If you can find a friend with lots of money and big ship. You might want to do so that you "tackle" the opponents and slow them down. Then the one with bigger guns comes and shoots it. (But by tackle I dont mean that you bump on the target. just circle around him and keep him scrambled & webbed).
gl
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Aralieus
Amarr
Traumark Logistics
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Posted - 2009.11.20 09:30:00 -
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If your serious about pvp contact me in-game I have some info you may find useful....
Fortune Favors the Bold!! |
Starnap
Somali Coastguard Authority
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Posted - 2009.11.20 12:22:00 -
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Mate, for a pvp Kestrel you should use rockets not missiles. They do more damage and are much easier to fit, leaving more room for other stuff. Maybe a small armour plate in the lows will be all the tank you want.
Keep posting, I'm liking it
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jjcs1986
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Posted - 2009.11.20 13:45:00 -
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cool
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.20 14:05:00 -
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Aralieous - will do
Starnap-
Umm rockets..well heres what I think and wat I have planned. Rockets range is only about 5km which is to close for most caldari missle boats. This puts you in range of the higher dps ships. The idea I was going to was using a warp disrputer (20km) and standad missles at the min for a 20km range. Put the microwarp drive on in addition to an overdrive injector will net me around 1700m/s
I should be able to stay at a distance while preventing him from warping out. This way I can hit him from afar while staying out of his dps range.
Adeleine
Assualt missle launchers I thought were meant for cruizes. Also the ASL are 35 CPU abd 50 PwerGrd whereas the Stnd Lanchers are 25/8 soI would not be able to fit those on the frigate.
Afterburner to Microwarp - abo****ely agree. I should have MCWD ready to use by Sat
I will post my new skillz shortly so people can see what Im doing. Ill also try to post a skill training schedule as well.
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Liz Laser
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2009.11.20 14:13:00 -
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As others have mentioned, anyone can be useful on their first day by being a tackler.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is how we also value a LOW skilled player because their clone is (or is practically) FREE.
Hero tacklers, unafraid to die because their ships and clones are free or cheap, can be a huge asset to a corp.
You will likely, however, continue to face the issue of low skilled players being viewed as possible spy alts.
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.20 14:24:00 -
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Liz - lol absolutely! I was trying to get into this one corp last night. It had a 3mil sp req.....those sp req are gay I understandppl want u to be able to fly certin crafts but just because u want someone to be able to fly a bc dosnt mean they want to.......anyway he kept asking me seriously whats ur mains name because "i was to knowledable" flattered but rather would havegotten into the corp
What I am really looking or is 0.0 corp. I tried getting into SGHQ the 0.0. corp of DSI but was refused because they have a 15m SP req....
They said go join DSI but they wanted pvp exp as well....how the heck can u get pvp exp in an empire based corp that doesnt pvp????
Frusterated because i would like to get into a good corp where I can stay, not corp jump.
So heres my ad fr what I am looking for:
Looking for a 0.0 corp that has between 30+ members (no alts, 30 actual active single players)
Has people that are willing to teach me the more game intense things (drug manufactuing, etc) As I was to get into drug manufacturing in the long run
Has corpwide events wether it be roams, or whatever.
Also does corpwide events that help build isk to pay for ships being shot down.
Also I have been getting into exploring and have found several sites. I want to beable to find a site and have corp mates that are willing to go get the site, etc.
Also a corp that can handle being wardecd and wont just station sit because of it.
I dont care if I die (i live in null sec and low sec for a reason) I know how to survive in a hostile environment.
Theother optionI was going to tr and do if I can find a good corp is to join DSI and go play with RVB when I want to pvp so I can get both the pve side of the game and pvp. I want to pvp but you have to have a mney revenue somehow as well...and I do not just want to pve. The only dwn side to the above is if Iplay in empire I will not learn how to manufacture drugs, and prosper in 0.0... :{
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Liz Laser
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2009.11.20 14:53:00 -
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I would put an alt in RvB for PvP (I have one too who has fewer SPs than you, he's a hero-tackler), and have your main make money in PvE. Be aware that RvB is big on "fair fights" between Red and Blue, so that character is going to have a less impressive killboard efficiency than your average opportunist killer in a well organized kick-ass corp.
Although missioning isn't everyone's joy, it makes good money, especially at L4s, and many of the skills are also the skills you want for PvP. I'd suggest having your main be a missioner that can make good money and yet be able to switch over to PvP.
Liz is a miner/industrialist who is still new to PvP (or at least I still feel that way, despite being in two campaigns and having a 94% efficiency on killboards (repelling an invasion while in BYRN and taking over a region while in INIT). I do NOT suggest splitting your skills as I did, although once you are VERY skilled in PvP, many people like to have a hulk character or hulk skills for corp mining ops.
Also, if you haven't trained cloaking yet, look into it. It is very handy to be able to disappear at will.
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.20 15:00:00 -
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Ya I wouldnt mind an alt but I dont feel like payin for two accounts, maybe when I hae enough isk (1b+) a month Ill do it.
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Liz Laser
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2009.11.20 15:11:00 -
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My RvB alt is on this account. Designed as a frigate flying hero-tackler, I didn't even train his learning skills. That keeps his SP lower and his clone is currently FREE.
You can design one using evemon and discover how many days of training it will take.
But yes, if you want to lose Battleships in RvB , you'll definitely want a second account.
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Elora Danzik
Caldari
Idiots In Spaceships
Psychotic Tendencies.
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Posted - 2009.11.20 15:38:00 -
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Bolsterbomb.
Contact either myself or NeverConvicted in game.
We are "generalist" corp we generally shoot anything. Also do the usual POS maintaince and mining to buy caps.
Currently, have NPC 0.0 access, low sec homes in Ammarr space, and currently have 3 war decs. So if you wanna fight...
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Junko Togawa
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.11.20 15:38:00 -
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Don't be afraid to try other types of ships. Rifters are terrific PvP-mobiles, for example. If you're going to go after Mission Running to make your ISK, pick a corp to run for that offers L4's in an area you like and start building rep. I recommend training Social and Connections to 3 ASAP if you want to run and don't want to die of utter boredom in L1's. You may find more challenge than you expected in L2's at first, but with PvE it's pretty much all about the Bigger Better Boom-mobile. If you want to stick with Caldari, you have a fine line of ships to choose from.
The grand dynasty of the missile boats: Kestrel->Caracal->Drake->Raven/CNR->Golem(not necessary, but a nice LT goal)
Personally, I'd get into a best-named Caracal fairly quick, train for drone skills, get in a Drake soon as you can start L3's and ride it all the way into L4's, to make plenty of ISK for an eventual Raven/CNR Pimpship to act as your personal ISK-printing machine. See numerous threads in the Missions forums for advice about all this.
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.20 15:50:00 -
[52]
Will contact your for more info.
Junko- Im not intrested in running missions though. Id rather do exploration and get my corp to go clear it out wether its mining or whatever and share in the isk. Ill run some missions if its corp wide but I want to be a pvp machine. Long term I want to manufacture drugs for isk :)
I can fly a carcal right now and fit it out pretty well but rule number one
Dont fly somethng you cant afford to lose. Which I cant afford atm lol
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Elora Danzik
Caldari
Idiots In Spaceships
Psychotic Tendencies.
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Posted - 2009.11.20 15:57:00 -
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Originally by: BolsterBomb
Will contact your for more info.
Junko- Im not intrested in running missions though. Id rather do exploration and get my corp to go clear it out wether its mining or whatever and share in the isk. Ill run some missions if its corp wide but I want to be a pvp machine. Long term I want to manufacture drugs for isk :)
Exploration site can be quite good. You will eventually need jump clones and while standing with a corp isn't the only way to get them, it generally is the least risky and more permanent as your personal standing stay with you. So, that does require some mission grinding.
That said. With corpies can run lvl 4 and 5 missions, it doesn't take quite as long.
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Tesco Yogurt
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Posted - 2009.11.21 04:36:00 -
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Originally by: BolsterBomb
I can fly a carcal right now and fit it out pretty well but rule number one
Dont fly somethng you cant afford to lose. Which I cant afford atm lol
It's good you want to stay in smaller ships, a lot of new players rush to bigger ships and lose them stupidly. A BC or assault frigate is almost more than capable of running lowsec sites etc. You might need to get support skills up. BC is easier to train for while AF's are more agile, which means you can GTFO if something comes in. Something to look at is doing those 1/10 or 2/10 static plexes that can be found in lowsec systems. They are fairly easy to do in frigates, especially assault frigs, and can net you some good loot. Keep your PVE or money making ships strictly for those activities and fly cheap stuff in PVP.
If you plan on sticking to frigates for a bit, try out the other races too. Rifter is considered on of the top PVP frigates, and punisher/incursus/merlin aren't half bad either. Kestrel is a nice frigate support DPS ship, a bit harder to solo in but doable. Once you get some good income coming in, as in chunks of 10mil etc, try assault missile caracals. They are lethal against frigates and most pilots won't think twice about engaging a caracal. The missile skills use standard ones (t2 assault launchers when u get t2 standards), and shield tanking etc skills are useful for all caldari ships. Did I mention they absolutely murder t1/t2 frigates?
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.23 15:26:00 -
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Day umpteen: I think IÆm becoming addictive to boostersà.the stars are changing colors on me? Is this good?
Went to pilot training school at Stacmon with Agony Unleashed, channel name AU_PVP_University . Learned a couple new things that really helped. Finally understood Angular Velocity and how Signature Radius work. Using these two components you can come up with so many tactical strategies and fittings.
Also learned a l33t tactic taught by AU, I will not mention it but anyone that has gone through their basic knows the l33tness of it.
Went on a fleet roam and destroyed several cruisers, battle cruisers, etc. These guys know what they are doing.
If you have never pvpd or ran in a fleet I highly suggest going through their basic course. It will show you on a fast track the importance of several items in eve as well as give you an idea of how a fleet works.
You could augment the entire process by reading like 10 guides, losing 10 ships and talking to people also, but most people arenÆt that ballzy. So for the faint at heart that wants an easy way into pvp I highly recommend Agony. The other thing is you can pull out a couple good contacts as well.
I had to leave in the middle of the roam and as I was traveling back (I was short on time) I was cutting the basics of survival (never good). I was about to jump into the last gate between null sec and high sec (yes there was a gate that did this) and I was thinking before I warped I should be scanning it first theirs prolly a gate camp there. (RL switch, baby crying wife yelling for me to come help) Eh screw it so I warped to the gateà5 secs later I ended up as pod juice. SWEET
So lessoned learned. If you cant do it right just dock and wait. Rushing things in EVE will get you killed.
Next day:
Went around null sec looking for a fight. Was scanning my butt off using the DS locating people, etc. I jumped into one local and then immediately saw one guy from the previous local channel showed up. Scanned while I was in warp to see that the guy was following me. I laid down a bookmark and warped back before the follower could initiate out. I had turned him into the hunted.
Followed him for a bit but couldnÆt get him to a point at a stand still..after following him for awhile I gave up and jumped a couple gates down. I entered a system and immediately warped to an asteroid belt to lay down a SS (which I normally warp back to and scan before I do anything else) As I entered the asteroid belt I saw on my overview a TARGET!! Yea!!!! Already pumped with adrenaline from the flipping of the hunted to the hunter I burned in and locked on himàà..DUMB I didnÆt even know what it was (an Ishtar with warrior II drones) but I was sure as heck gonna shoot him down.
30 secs later I ended up as Pod juiceààdang dronesàà.
So ended back at Sick Bay I started looking back at what had happened to figure out what I did wrongàwell a lot of things.
I looked at my loss history and noticed one odd thingà..I had died to nothing smaller then a Cruizer lol.
3 Ishtars, an Onyx, a Vexor, 2 harbringers, 2 drakesà..lol I was like hmmm I suck at picking targets.
So what I learned on another day which I destroyed another frig. Never cut corners. I had the drop on the Ishtar and could have easily gotten out before he saw me to my ss and scanned. I would have realized that thing would have beaten my arss and not have engaged.
So after doing this I decided it was time to get the hang of flying my frig and be able to kill cruisers and tackle a battle cruiser to the point where the I can eliminate the drones, I enlisted in RVBà..
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Dacryphile
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Posted - 2009.11.23 16:40:00 -
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I'm enjoying this a lot. Its great to see a newb not fearful of losing ships or pods.
As a reward for my entertainment, I'm sending you a donation.
Originally by: Doc Robertson
...take a good look at this pic and tell us which one is you.
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.23 16:58:00 -
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lol well thank you.
And just as a side note I plan on using RVB to learn to fly a frigate exceptionally well.
Are my expectations to high to want to train to be able to kill a BC or cruiser witha frig?
Maybe indefintily tackle a bc and live? What should my expectations be with a frigate when Im out to kill not nesscarly tackle for my fleet?
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Nora Ortega
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Posted - 2009.11.23 18:09:00 -
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When your a frigate tackler, hope that you live long enough for someone bigger to apply a point to the guy so that you can go and point another guy.
As for killing a cruiser, it is possible, esp. when you get to AF's. I had gotten a platted Navy Omen to half armor before his buddies warp ontop of me and I couldn't get out in time. (2x Navy Omen + Curse + Hyperion = dead Jag).
Battlecruisers can be tricky depending on what BC it is. I would not expect to be able to engage one and live myself, since they typically have enough slots to fully tackle you and neut your cap so you can't do anything.
When with a fleet:
Your dps won't be great, your HP might not be great, but you are damn sure that you are not going to let that guy get away.
When solo:
Engage other frigates. Even T2 ones. It is not unheard of for a Rifter to take down its T2 variants.
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Aracno
Minmatar
Republic Military School
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Posted - 2009.11.23 19:53:00 -
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here some nice frigate pvp videos:
Frigank [Video]
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BolsterBomb
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Posted - 2009.11.23 21:17:00 -
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OOO thank you a great way to end the work day
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