Originally by: Liang Nuren

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Originally by: Silvarus Trighton

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True but how much time do you save approaching those spaced out mission gates when you can go 700m/s versus slowboating it in a BS? Then there is also the added agility so that its not like moving around a semi when you align to gates or approach things. It may not sound like much but it defiantly adds up.

All in all I think the trade-offs balance out. So that's why most tengu pilots would agree, yeah a golem is superior (due to higher DPS and drones), but a tengu is right up there just under a golem but with the added perc of a little extra excitement when running missions. You gotta be on your toes when you fly T3, you cant just be snoring through it. Also training for a tengu takes about half the time as a golem which makes it much more accessible.

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Comments:
- Almost 100% of the missions I run plop by big fat battleship out right on top of the next gate (or within 10km or so of it). Thus, arguments relating to travel time affect a grand total of like 3 missions (Recon 2,3, The Score, Worlds Collide, maybe a few more but certainly not many at all). Which is to say that this is a minor issue, at best.
- Trading 5 seconds of align time when warping vs repeatedly chasing rats all over the grid (10-20 seconds a piece) is a fantastic trade.
- The time lost chasing rats is a huge penalty to your mission running time. Let's quantify how much. Statistics have no implants, include drones where appropriate, and include reload time. The Tengu listed earlier in the thread deals 814 DPS.
Ammo | CNR DPS | Travel time (Makeup time)
T1 Wrath | 719 | 15s (113s)
CN Wrath | 803 | 15s (1095s)
Fury Wrath | 876 | 1s (Inf)
- The kin damage bonus makes for a very inefficient mission experience. It can be offset by having many agents and only picking the Kin weak missions, but putting the CNR in the same spot would mean the CNR simply picked more profitable missions. Or you can run the non kin missions, and the CNR will speed on by you.
- I've flown a max skilled Tengu, and (from experience) it is not a world class mission runner.
- High "accessibility" doesn't make a ship a world class mission ship. Why would I fly it when I can fly something better?

-Liang

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