Michayel Lyon
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Posted - 2006.05.10 00:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Cummilla
How ignorant.
First, 151+ is the preferred sniping range :p 
But seriously, you talk about stabs making it hard to kill pirates!!???!!!! Stabs are why I, as a pirate, have started sniping for isks. I tried the "honorable" way of sitting by my lonesome on a gate and tanking sentries and I've spent my first two years in Eve fully embracing the virtues of belt piracy to their fullest. Yet the stab wearing carebear all too often just shlobs and bobs on that stab to the extent that I'm just wasting my time because too many 'bears just end up running from even fights.
Heck, that goes 10 fold for so called anti-pirates. They NEVER engage when it's even up. If they don't have me and my bud by 5 to 2 or 6-8 to 2, they run.
So basically a week or so again I decided it was time to turn a page and embrace whatever it took to get the kill, even if that meant -10 and sniping.
Let me tell ya, I don't know what the hell I was waiting for. I should have done what I did tactics wise a long time ago.
So for the OP, stop embracing silly "valorous" ideals like belt hunting or this or that....decide you will do whatever it takes to get the kill and do it! If's it's sniping, so be it. Shoot the carebear\anti-pirate in his stab-fitted ship! See how much his stabs help him then!
Have fun! That's what Eve's all about.
You are totally correct. I consider myself a carebear and an anti-pirate. A few of my latest engagements, where I initiated the fights, involve a 6vs1, a 3vs1, a 2vs1, a 5vs2 and a 4vs1.
In the 6vs1 I warped into a SniggWaffe group and started blasting away at the t1 cruisers and frigs. They almost jammed me to death, but I got out in structure. 0 kills, if I remember correctly.
The 3vs1 was me warping in on a NUBS gang, consisting of a cruiser and two inties. I killed the cruiser and one inty, and got into a stalemate with the last inty. I couldn't hit him, and he couldn't break my tank. I finally got out because he was pulsing his warp scrambler to save cap. 2 kills, but had to leave my drones.
The 2vs1 was my cruiser against a cruiser and a frig. Easy kills, not much to talk about.
The 5vs2 was me and a corp mate against 5 NUBS in t1 cruisers and t2 frigs. We got 3 kills, and both of us survived.
The 4vs1 was actually me alone in a battleship, against 4 SNIGG battleships (well, actually it was 3 SNIGG and 1 ex-SNIGG). Suffice to say, I lost.
And no, I don't fit stabs in PvP ships. The only time I fit stabs is when I'm doing missions, mining or transporting stuff. The only people I've encountered that use stabs in PvP are pirates and people in battleships with sniper setups.
Didn't your mommy tell you over-generalization is bad for you?
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