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Posted - 2007.04.20 16:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Fitz Chivalry
I was prompted to post by seeing an auction for a 10.5km smartbomb with a reserve of 6bn isk. Why would anyone pay this kind of isk for a single module when it is 3 times the cost of any ship you would put it on (assumnig that anyone with resources to get a titan or MS would have access via its own members to such things)?
I am infamous within my corp for the cheapness of my fittings because I just cannot understand the point of putting on pricey mods.
I will use (cheap) t2 guns/launchers as the t2 ammo is sometimes essential for the range bonuses (I trained HAM II mainly because the launchers a 1/3 the price of heavy launcher II  ) but other than that pretty much everything I fit is t1 or relatiely cheap named stuff.
Of all the ships I have lost there has only been 2 instances where an extra bit of tank would have made any difference, normally in pvp you either pwn or get totally pwnd and so why drop more than twice the cost of the ship on fittings when it is 95% unlikely to save you in any event.
Does everyone just have a lot more isk than me and likes to throw it around, is it the bling factor or do people actually think that they need these things?
Would also be interested to hear from people that have lost really expensive fittings and the circumsntaces for it or whether a particular mod has saved their bacon.
Discuss.
Totally depends on the situation and the ship. For me at least, if it gives you a significant advantage over best named/t2 and you can afford it, of course you should use them.
Example: Before Warp disruptor II's came out, I used faction warp disruptors on my Arazu, 2 of them actually (since this was back pre-wcs nerf). With the Arazu's 20% per level range bonus, the difference was huge between a 20km disruptor and a 28km disruptor. With Recon 5, you can get out to 40km with a T1 disruptor, or 56km with a 28km disruptor. Since 200mm rails with spike have an optimal of around 55k, it was even more important for me to be able to scramble from farther away, even if it meant my Arazu after ship, cloak, and mods cost half a billion isk.
With the release of t2 disruptors, and the subsequent depletion of my wallet by losing a couple of half a billion isk recons, ive temporarily altered my setup to use T2 disruptors. 15 mil for those is much better than 100 mil+ for a faction one to gain 10km of scramble range.
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