I had some fun in ceptors lately.
The next day i thought: "So many ceptors flying around. Lets try to kill some of them.".

I tried and i failed. I tried it in a remote-sensor-boosted daredevil, that can target a pod in under a second (eft says so).
But this thing failed to target ceptors on gate. They were in warp before they appeared on overview.

So how do i catch ceptors these days? If they are uncatchable - then for sure - its inbalanced and i vote for making the ceptors vulnerable to bubbles again.

What do you think?

You either catch them when they engage you (then you pop them by literally drones), or by smartbombing battleships on the outgate. Same deal as cloaky nonsense tbh, sure they're hard to catch, but only until they decide to do something useful.

Do you know how many smartbombs it takes to kill a properly fit interceptor?

Only until they decide to do something useful? How about scouting for the rest of their gang with complete immunity? How about hauling small, valuable items through 0.0?

Do you know how many smartbombs it takes to kill a properly fit interceptor?

NOTHIGN takes less than 1 secodn in eve. THe server runs in 1 sec ticks.

So the guy press warp. It start uncloack. Next secodn the new status is sent to your machine.. it will arrive in some milliseconds, but too late for you to answer on the same tick. On the next tick you get update.. a few milliseconds later you click lock.. Next second that can be processed. So no you will NOT lock anythign under 2 seconds.

If they are uncatchable - then for sure - its inbalanced

What do you think?

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Most ceptors, as actually fit and flown, are in 2.5-3.5s align time territory, so they are possible to catch if you heavily remote sebo a naturally fast locking ship. That said, I enjoy my 1.9s align time raptor.
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That was my initial idea. I though: "A ceptor aligns in about 2-3 seconds - so it must be possible to catch at least some of them if i target them under 1 second)".
But that was theory. In practice i even wasn't able to target slower ceptors (>3s aligntime) with a daredevil boosted by three rsb's.

And so fights become even harder to initiate in null-sec.

Most ceptors, as actually fit and flown, are in 2.5-3.5s align time territory, so they are possible to catch if you heavily remote sebo a naturally fast locking ship. That said, I enjoy my 1.9s align time raptor.

New Inties are great. Now there is actually some risk involved when you are ratting or mining in 0.0 because there is a small chance of getting tackled by an inti be4 you manage to dock up.

0.0 was too safe. With new inties its more fun. Anyone claiming 0.0 was risky has no idea what they are talking about.

0.0 was too safe. With new inties its more fun. Anyone claiming 0.0 was risky has no idea what they are talking about.

0.0 definately was, still is too safe. It's got nothing to do with Inties though.

I gote 300+ kills in crusader, honestly inties are great except for the buble immunity, way to powerfull... give them warp core strength of +2 or +3 instead, like a venture, this way its still hard to tackle them and close range ceptors can go in for a scram and still bail out if scramed back. But say a gang of cruisers with a dictor would stope them and force a fight, the objective is to get more fleet fight not to avoid them :)

So, you want to completely break them in lowsec and hisec to make them very marginally easier to catch in nullsec (and even that is arguable).

easier to catch in nullsec (and even that is arguable).

Looks like CCP did good work with buffing interceptors