Originally by: Nadalia

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So you just discovered a way to tank sentries and catch people on the jump-in because of the change?

Kudos, I guess.

Still, most of us knew about this since Space Invaders did it somewhat over two years ago. Sentry tanking + fast lock time for the win, yes?

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Originally by: Enigmier

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most good gate camps have been doing this for ages.. its not exactly rocket science now is it

you guys must of been the beta-max of pirating before you discovered this

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Originally by: Forino Ovoli

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Originally by: Delicate Beauty

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if they jump and and are gonna lose a ship, they don't mind abusing the log off tactic. Maybe the carebears will just adapt and pass the log off tactic around and your harpy will be useless :D

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It's interesting, using CTRL-Q to logoff is "abusing a game mechanic" but tanking a ship to survive the sentry guns is considered Ok?

Sentry guns are there for a reason. Personally, I'd up the sentry guns such that they'd one shot kill a battleship, with room left over just to be sure.

Feel free to come after me in an asteroid belt in low sec if you want, but 1 sec locking before warp is just cheese. And - as far as I'm concerned - tanking the sentry guns at a gate should be considered just as much an "exploit" as trying to evade being CONCORD'ed once flagged in high sec.

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Originally by: Xamys

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Edited by: Xamys on 27/11/2006 21:12:43

Originally by: tiller

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Edited by: tiller on 25/11/2006 22:58:46

Method:

Take 1 * alt in scorp and tank to hell and back (12 slot tank). Fit high slots with 4 * Med Shield Transporters and sit at gate flagged with the rest of your gang.

When the sentrys switch to you just boost yourself with scorp. With 2 faction sensors and amp the Hawk has 2138 scan res and is fast enough to lock pretty much all incoming frigs and even some shuttles before warp. Maybe even faster lock will be possible with 1 remote sensor on scorp as well....

You don't need to run the transporters full time, only when the sentrys make the switch... usually only 1 or 2 of them needed but 4 allows for emergency's.

I know frigs are used alot in 0 space / empire wars for tackling and this is certainly not a new idea, but I've never seen people using frigs to perma tank sentrys as part of gang in low sec in 2yrs of gate work.


Here is a PICCY

It works, no in fact it works DAM well, and is worth trying just for the 'WTF' moments it causes when frigs can't warp away after jump in. If you have a pirate gate camp gang, try one today, and have a whole bunch of fun as NO-ONE escapes and everyone dies. (insert evil LOL here)


edit: just to add, rather than have a dedicated ship to support the AF, just have 3-4 gang members with 1 shield transporter each. Only downside with this way is that if they go semi-afk your AF will pop.

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Not sure, but I don't think this will work after Kali, because of this change in the patch notes:

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Pilots aiding other criminally flagged pilots now become criminally flagged themselves.

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Would a ship boosting another be considered "aiding"? If so, I'm afraid your little frigates will be blown up to bits by turrets... correct me if I'm wrong.

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