So let me get this straight, you are a pod pilot. You whent thru the education requierd, and this was the very first time you saw a Matari ship?.
Did they skip the ship recognition part of your education?, or have you simply been locked away in some dark isolated astroid in a dead space pocket??

Imagine how embarrassing it must be for the Amarr to keep getting spanked by us.

That said though, I do find the solar panels to be a very odd design.

What if it got blasted away by a stray hybrid charge? Does the ship get no power?

That said though, I do find the solar panels to be a very odd design.

What if it got blasted away by a stray hybrid charge? Does the ship get no power?

You'll be hard pressed to find solar panels on any capsuleer vessels. Closest you'll get might be the solar sails on a certain exploration vessel capsuleers were gifted a few years back, and even they can't be properly called solar panels

A solar panel is completely different from a solar sail, and both are downright unrelated to heat sinks. If I were new here, I'd be shocked at your display of ignorance. Your education, if it could even be called that, is quite obviously lacking.

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?

2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.

3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?

4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?
2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.
3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?
4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious. Inquiring minds want to know. I assume some of you fly these things.

1. By using some of the most advanced polymers, physics research and propulsion systems ever conceived. The sheer speed of Minmatar craft, not only defeats the Imperial brickwork you were instructed in, it completely outclasses it.

2. They turn on a dinner plate at breakneck speed.

4. They have superior electronic systems compared to Amarrian vessels. One can quite easily access Galnet and host an entire wing of EWAR to support your fleet.

You do your school a disservice by speaking.

A solar panel is completely different from a solar sail, and both are downright unrelated to heat sinks. If I were new here, I'd be shocked at your display of ignorance. Your education, if it could even be called that, is quite obviously lacking.

You is welcome.

. I admit that there's probably better minmatar ships out there that I haven't seen yet, that have proper hulls and gold paint.

There's a Gallente First person Shooter holo-game out where 9 year old kids are led to the belief that the guns with cooler paint schemes are better, than the ones with the default colors, yet the two are exactly the same statistic wise.

So basically what I'm saying here is you are about as intelligent as a 9 year old.

Better stay in school for a bit longer.

Thanks for some proper answers to my questions, but I don't believe you about the teeth thing.

I didn't say that gold paint made it fly faster, I just think it shows a bit of class to paint your ship up a bit. Explain to me what's wrong with that.

You are connecting the mere color of the ship with it's quality, a connection that simply doesn't make sense.

Also, class doesn't mean anything for combat vessels, or industrial ships for that matter.

Wait... Seriously? Superior EWAR? Come on. You were doing pretty well until you claimed THAT. EWAR is one of the areas that Minnie ships don't do so well in.

I swear it's true, cross my heart and hope to die. My mum's cousin's sister in law is married to a Sebbie, and there's something slightly gone wrong with his fillings. At night, yeah? At night, when they's asleep, and he begins to snore, it triggers this malfunction in his teeth, yeah, and they begin to broadcast Jita Local, loud enough for her to hear. She said it was well creepy the first couple times, but she's used to it by now.

That reminds me, I should really check in on them. They's kinda struggling lately, I heard. Got taken by a scam, the silly woman.

You are connecting the mere color of the ship with it's quality, a connection that simply doesn't make sense.

Also, class doesn't mean anything for combat vessels, or industrial ships for that matter.

Jita local while sleeping, now that's a scary thought. Imagine the dreams.

Your name is Fredfredbug4, so I don't think you're in a position to tell others about what makes sense and what doesn't.

For all you other people diverting the topic to talking about how minmatar ships are the best, well of course you think that, because that's what you got taught. My educators taught me that my race's ships were the best too, and I'm sure it's the same for every race. However, looking at it objectively, you've got to admit it - you've got some rustbuckets there. The thing I saw (I don't know what it was) wasn't going to win any wars, it wasn't even winning the war against oxidisation.

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?
2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.
3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?
4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious. Inquiring minds want to know. I assume some of you fly these things.

[...]the fact is that Minmatar ship technology is quite obviously rooted in Amarrian ship technology.

The metal used in the hull is rust-colored. It is not actual rust.

I give the OP's post 1/10. Please try harder or, come up with something more original next time. Even primary school kids are taught that rust (a.k.a. oxidation) requires oxygen, of which there is none in the vacuum of space.

Down with this sort of thing.

Don't tell me you people are so poor you can't even afford genuine rust.

Fernite carbide is red.
Tungsten carbide is gold.
Crystalline carbonide is green.
Titanium carbide is grey.

Guess which nations use which materials.

While your ignorance of Minmatar metals is excusable, your suggestion that a member of PIE would fly a Minmatar ship is not. PIE flies Amarr hulls exclusively.

"You people."

For your information, miss Ji-Young, I exclusively fly Amarrian hulls in service to the Empire.

I simply have a basic understanding of how Matari ships work.

Well, she's comparing their EWAR capabilities to the Amarr...

It's different from ship to ship, but most have the seats made from out of old sofas. They is usually quite comfy in fact

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?
2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.
3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?
4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious. Inquiring minds want to know. I assume some of you fly these things.

4. Oh please, I can access Galnet even planetside, on my phone while sitting on the toilet at my auntie's house

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?
2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.
3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?
4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious. Inquiring minds want to know. I assume some of you fly these things.

I had to look up what a phone was. Wow. That's really ancient, isn't it? It's what people used to communicate with each other back when they were still traveling around on the backs of animals, before neural uplinks and FTL communications and bread were invented.

I had no idea anybody still used that. That's so neat! I'm jealous now. I want a phone, too.

Phone, personal communicator, neural implant.

It's all semantics and works on the same principle of transmitting radio waves to a switching mechanism like an FTL transceiver.

For all the claims that Matar are backwards, we seem to be only ones in the universe who actually know how machines work.

PS - I can build you a "phone" ,yes like those old-fashioned devices people used to carry in their pockets, 30 Ghz faster than Lai Dai's devices and best of all not "locked down" so you can easily download media without paying 300 credits per song. Contact me to discuss a fair price.

Hah! I'd take someone who knows they are doing anytime over someone claiming we are backwards because we use a metal that looks like rust.

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?

2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.

3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?

4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious.

I'm not sure if I should be laughing or crying at the ignorance of Ms. Ji-Young. Probably the former.

why not cry with laughter? then you can do both just to be sure!

Don't let the downmarket ones like the Slasher fool you, Matari ships are just as solidly engineered and spaceworth as the efforts of any of the other empires, and come with the additional advantage of being easier to maintain and repair.

One Slasher is laughable

This is a sentiment that will take you far in life as a frigate pilot, and will not lead to the loss of your expensive Imperial Navy-issue frigate to a ship that cost less than your guns.

That said though, I do find the solar panels to be a very odd design.

What if it got blasted away by a stray hybrid charge? Does the ship get no power?

[quote=Heinel Coventina]Personaly I call them targets of opportunity, a reactor goes critical faster when there is nowhere to dump excess heat but inside the vessel.

Now that I'm looking at the fittings on my Slicer, running price checks on the T2s and the Scorches... as well as their stats. Yes, I agree with you. This is exactly the case.