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Shadrin
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Posted - 2006.04.29 20:41:00 -
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I've been playing with different Megathron setups and I'm thinking that a Megathron sniping setup may be the best solo gate camping setup.
Thoughts on this? Pros/cons?
Obviously this setup would give up a tank. How far do you have to be away from sentries so that you don't get pwned?
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Shadrin
Imago Mundi
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wierchas noobhunter
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Posted - 2006.04.29 20:52:00 -
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u need to be 150km away from gates and centrys will not shoot
basicly easy to setup
425mm rails in hight sencor and tracking stuff in med
mag field stabs/ tracking stuff/ wcs in low
nice mode ON/off
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mattzz
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Posted - 2006.04.29 20:54:00 -
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You won't be able to tank sentries on your own, so get a sniping setup.
You'll have to be 151km from the stargate to avoid sentry fire. I'd recommend a similar setup to below:
Highs - 7x 425mm railguns
Meds - 3x Sensor Booster, 1x Tracking Computer
Lows - 3x Tracking Enhancer, 3x Magnetic Field Stabilizers, 1x whatever (WCS, Medium Armor Rep perhaps)
I'm not in-game atm to check but I think that's a pretty decent sniping setup.
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Lsv1
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:18:00 -
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I prefer the in your face, I used a ferox with **** SP and was able to pop haulers/afk cruisers/BC's without issue, longer if you can get in nos range, but chances are you won't be able to have a scram
Other than that a mega is good stuff for camping gates at 150km+ you should have no problems instapopping t1 haulers.
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Malka Badi'a
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:19:00 -
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Sniping. Nothing worse than finding someone using a dura-whatever and just scrambling you at the gate.
But even still, I've never found gate camping to be fun, eventful, or skill intensive.
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Wizard
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:22:00 -
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Edited by: Wizard on 29/04/2006 22:23:06
On the gate.
In your face is best. I prefer having all or nothing fights that give the other guy chance to fight back, oh and no stabs, dont fly it if you cant afford to loose it.
Never been fond of sniping, not much of a challenge.
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Zarithas
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:24:00 -
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 Originally by: Malka Badi'a
Sniping. Nothing worse than finding someone using a dura-whatever and just scrambling you at the gate.
But even still, I've never found gate camping to be fun, eventful, or skill intensive.
I agree. Belt pirating is much more fun and harder. Gatecamping is just pointless ganking, no challenge or fun to it. BTW Malka, did you get my EVE-Mail?
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tiller
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:30:00 -
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Originally by: Zarithas
Originally by: Malka Badi'a
Sniping. Nothing worse than finding someone using a dura-whatever and just scrambling you at the gate.
But even still, I've never found gate camping to be fun, eventful, or skill intensive.
I agree. Belt pirating is much more fun and harder. Gatecamping is just pointless ganking, no challenge or fun to it. BTW Malka, did you get my EVE-Mail?
Each to their own.. I find belt hunting dull and pointless.. wandering around looking for soft mining targets but often not finding anyone at all. 
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Malka Badi'a
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:32:00 -
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Edited by: Malka Badi''a on 29/04/2006 22:33:03
Originally by: tiller
Each to their own.. I find belt hunting dull and pointless.. wandering around looking for soft mining targets but often not finding anyone at all.
I'll trade you your soft mining belt targets for my commonly t2 fitted antipirates guarding the mining ops or complex gates. And don't go belt to belt, use your scanner. Much faster.
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Hllaxiu
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:35:00 -
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A slight correction: You must be 150km from any sentry gun, not the gate. (this may be more or less than 150km from the gate).
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Malka Badi'a
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:37:00 -
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Quote:
A slight correction: You must be 150km from any sentry gun, not the gate. (this may be more or less than 150km from the gate).
It's from the gate. It -has- to be. Because I've found myself 60-70k away from the guns and 150+k away from the gate without taking sentry fire.
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Kitty O'Shay
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Posted - 2006.04.29 22:39:00 -
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Originally by: Hllaxiu
A slight correction: You must be 150km from any sentry gun, not the gate. (this may be more or less than 150km from the gate).
No, gate.
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Originally by: Mephysto
come on, solo-mining in a 0.4 system? Its wrong NOT to pod you...
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ParMizaN
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Posted - 2006.04.29 23:00:00 -
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Snipng is very boring IMO; for the people you kill, for you and for the people trying to kill you.
Do the game a favour and find a friend or two and sentry tank.
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Kaleeb
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Posted - 2006.04.29 23:49:00 -
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Ok first off its 150km from the object the guns are guarding e.g gate or station, you can be 30km from the guns aslong as its 150km from said object.
Sniping - useful for killing haulers/frigs/cruisers but not alot else. Vey boring and unless you have scouts out its only a matter of time before someone gets a covert ontop of you.
Tanking - Can be fun and as wizard said its nice to do the all or nothing fights. You can take on most things at a gate although a well setup bs with decent pilot will be pretty impossible unless you have some form of EW etc. Tanking works best in groups of 3+
Belt roaming - Probably the most fun but least rewarding, you rarely find anyone in them in anything worth ransoming, and the only people in 0.4 belts are usually people who dont know any better and couldnt fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
p.s dont fit stabs
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Deja Thoris
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Posted - 2006.04.30 00:06:00 -
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I've been fortunate enough to kill a sacriledge and a new guy in a scorp while sniping. However, unless you can get a group of 3 people its not feasible to kill anything less than an idiot in a bs.
Sentry tanking is more fun, more risky and ultimately more rewarding. Taking down another bs infront of the sentries is something of an accomplishment.
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Agif
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Posted - 2006.04.30 00:18:00 -
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Originally by: Zarithas
Originally by: Malka Badi'a
Sniping. Nothing worse than finding someone using a dura-whatever and just scrambling you at the gate.
But even still, I've never found gate camping to be fun, eventful, or skill intensive.
I agree. Belt pirating is much more fun and harder. Gatecamping is just pointless ganking, no challenge or fun to it. BTW Malka, did you get my EVE-Mail?
And the fun in popping haulers and NPC set up cruisers and BC is? not much different am afraid, most pvp nowadays is ganks, since you cant actually trust anybody to take on 1-v-1 honourably
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wierchas noobhunter
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Posted - 2006.04.30 00:46:00 -
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Originally by: ParMizaN
Snipng is very boring IMO; for the people you kill, for you and for the people trying to kill you.
Do the game a favour and find a friend or two and sentry tank.
no its fun :)
ohh shutle
targeting
boom
woot
agian
woot noobship
boom
cruiser
if lucky boom
oh wait ...
nice mode ON/off
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Shadrin
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Posted - 2006.04.30 01:00:00 -
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I'm pretty excited honestly, got my Megathron setup for sniping now, ditched the 'ol Blasterthron and I'm ready for some sniping after I get ammo.
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Shadrin
Imago Mundi
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Berak FalCheran
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Posted - 2006.04.30 01:29:00 -
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Originally by: tiller
Each to their own.. I find belt hunting dull and pointless.. wandering around looking for soft mining targets but often not finding anyone at all.
tiller speaks truth here. you can spend hours looking for fights :-(
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Superbus Maximus
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Posted - 2006.04.30 01:35:00 -
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Buy a bhaalghorn and you can tank sentries and camp gate solo :)
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Malka Badi'a
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Posted - 2006.04.30 02:20:00 -
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tiller speaks truth here. you can spend hours looking for fights :-(
Strange, NOCTS never does. Then again, maybe we just know how to scout the map and scanner better
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Berak FalCheran
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Posted - 2006.04.30 06:44:00 -
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Originally by: Malka Badi'a
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tiller speaks truth here. you can spend hours looking for fights :-(
Strange, NOCTS never does. Then again, maybe we just know how to scout the map and scanner better
i don't always. but i'm lazy something terrible. i tend to get frustrated after looking around under 20 minutes and just log in anger.
i'm a bad frustratable pirate. but then again, i'm quitting it for a while. hopefully i'll find something else more amusing to do for a bit.
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kahle
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Posted - 2006.04.30 11:12:00 -
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Originally by: wierchas noobhunter
Originally by: ParMizaN
Snipng is very boring IMO; for the people you kill, for you and for the people trying to kill you.
Do the game a favour and find a friend or two and sentry tank.
no its fun :)
ohh shutle
targeting
boom
woot
agian
woot noobship
boom
cruiser
if lucky boom
oh wait ...
hehe about right, and btw you win cause of the sig 
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MercedesBenz
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Posted - 2006.04.30 18:12:00 -
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Originally by: Berak FalCheran
i'm a bad frustratable pirate. but then again, i'm quitting it for a while. hopefully i'll find something else more amusing to do for a bit.
Can I have your stuff?
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Dumus
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Posted - 2006.04.30 18:39:00 -
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Edited by: Dumus on 30/04/2006 18:39:21
Originally by: Shadrin
I've been playing with different Megathron setups and I'm thinking that a Megathron sniping setup may be the best solo gate camping setup.
Thoughts on this? Pros/cons?
Obviously this setup would give up a tank. How far do you have to be away from sentries so that you don't get pwned?
Pros
You will inflate your ego, and you will be pleased you can kill people from a long way away with teeny weeny risk for you. (dont forget your stabs)
Cons
People will take you for the low life bottom feeding sea slug you are.
Grow a pair and be a real pirate.
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Shadrin
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Posted - 2006.04.30 19:16:00 -
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LOL, I'm just trying all that pirating has to offer. I pirate belts, now I want to try the ***** gate camper method. :)
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Shadrin
Imago Mundi
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Helene Troi
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Posted - 2006.04.30 21:39:00 -
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The other day, my probe was destroyed by a gate camp from 185kms away...
dunno what ship he was in or what weapon he used but it was great shooting!!!
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ParMizaN
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Posted - 2006.04.30 22:42:00 -
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Originally by: Helene Troi
Edited by: Helene Troi on 30/04/2006 21:51:30
Edited by: Helene Troi on 30/04/2006 21:49:15
The other day, my probe was destroyed by a gate camp from 185kms away...
dunno what ship he was in or what weapon he used but it was great shooting!!!
(Good job I had about 50 other ones...)
(Note to self: no more courier missions with the gisti AB fitted)
waaaaait a minute
you had a gist ab on a "PROBE"
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And you dont know about how easy it is to be destroyed by snipers???
And you were doing courier missions?
Phenomena of ironies, cast the litany aside
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burek
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Posted - 2006.05.01 01:29:00 -
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Edited by: burek on 01/05/2006 01:29:28
Nothing wrong with a bit of sniping, if you do it for profit. Once you start believing that it makes you some leet pvper, that becomes a bit sad.
Plus instapopping careless older players gives you that special buzz when they start cursing and threatening but you both know it's in vain.
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Durethia
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Posted - 2006.05.01 01:52:00 -
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Originally by: Shadrin
I've been playing with different Megathron setups and I'm thinking that a Megathron sniping setup may be the best solo gate camping setup.
Thoughts on this? Pros/cons?
Let me tell you, from experience....
THE BEST 0.0 SOLO GATE CAMPER I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED IS "HEIKKI" OF ASUYA.
I consider my tanks to be respectable. Let me tell you, this guy ATE my decked out Brutix faster than I could initiate a third volley. He usually sits in his bubble and uses T2 Large Blasters and T2 Heavy Drones in a Megathron; sometimes, he uses smart bombs. He's been reported to knock Interceptors out of the sky with that thing; Tracking Computers, Tracking Enhancers and Magnetic Stabalizers I suspect... that and LVL 5 across the board in Gunnery; not to mention, he's always with an ALT so I suspect his ALT has insane Gang Warefare skills to further boost potential damage output.
I don't know if it's funny or sad, how much damage his Megathron can inflict on any ship.
Typically, what happens is you jump into 9KOE... 'oh ****, 7 or so hostiles camping the gate!!! oh n03z!!'. Without thinking, you try to warp to the other gate... oh, but Heikki is there at the other gate, all by his self. After you wake up 40 jumps or so away, give or take, you realize you would have had a better chance facing the 7 or so hostiles than to get caught in Heikki's bubble.
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