You'll never need the TP, infact you should be doing full damage on the ship, try instead of orbiting the ship while firing the blasters, stay on approach and try to lower your transversal

but TP would make the target "bigger" and essentially easy to hit with drones and guns...

Im gonna say web and do some manual control instead of Orbit. Since orbit will just make you miss.

It might make it bigger but if it has trans on you it wont matter. But slowing it down will help more esp with blasters.

What the other said - alternativlely, you could:

- Fit a tracking computer or enhancer
- Use a dissonic encoding platform instead of a hybrid propiulsion armature
- Post your fit, so we can identify possible ptoblems.

Neither, it's your speed that will be the issue not the targets.

As already stated you will need a tracking enhancer or scripted tracking comp, Dissonic encoding tracking bonus is not worth the loss of the drones.

I have two tracking enhancers on my Proteus and have no problems hitting ships at about the 3-5km orbit range and that is with a microwarpdrive on.

If you do not want to sacrifice lows then the T2 Tracking Rig gives a better tracking bonus than a tracking enhancer but is not quite as good as a Tracking comp (scripted).

Sadly the disonic encoding platform hardly has any effect on tracking speed.

I have a 0.2 tracking speed which I am sure you know is terrible for up close medium blasters.

Even if I had tracking enhancers and all that jazz I would still never reach 1.0 tracking speed.

http://i.imgur.com/8AotZ.jpg <--- Fitting

As you can see it has little room for changes. It's cap stable with the mwd on

Seems a little over tanked, and I would suggest does not need to be cap stable for most missions, Swap some of the mids for tracking comps. I would also use six guns.

Level 5, oh.

Well depends how often you use the web but yes the tracking comp should improve things, you have two choices with it script for range and orbit a little further out or script for tracking for base better tracking.

Can't use 6 guns without changing a subsystem, if I change the subsystem I wont be able to use MWD.
I am not over tanked trust me... Level 5s do alot of dps even when tanked properly.

Well - I have a quite different fitting philosophy - especially regarding cap-stable fits. Last time I did PVE, I did so in a Machariel that - according to EFT - is capstable vor 77 seconds with a heavy cap booster II running. hardly ever had to turn the cap-booster on though - but then again, I've only ran a handfull of L5's and that was 3 years ago...

A few thoughts:

- I assume, ingame you don't use void if you already experience tracking problems and that's just the EFT screenshot.
- I have no idea of whom you're running L5s against, but then, omni tanking seems a bit weird in pve. I have very limited exerience with L5s and don't remember if there are any that deal omni-damage, but you should be able to run with just two mission-specific hardeners and not miss out any tank. Instead, you could fit a TE.
- Ditching the idea of being cap stable and using a cap booster, you could go for a power core multiplier and fit an additional gun, increasing your DPS .
- Using an MWD on a T3 is a bad idea imho as their strenth is their sig-tank (and wake limiters are a joke). If you get rid of the MWD, I guess half the EFT defence value should easily suffice.
Yeah - I know you need to get from target to target quickly, but then, you could fit an 100mn AB on it for that purpose, and pulse it, thus maintaining a small sig radius and sig-tanking. Just align, activate, fly straight to the next target, deactivate AB in time, activate web, orbit at optimal and shoot.

Unless youre fitting missiles on your proteus, you want a web....
Tracking is not an issue on a proteus at all so i have no idea how youre flying it.
Just hit approach, web and shoot. (pulse MWD if further than 10km).

Facepalm...

Void has a tracking Bonus, ergo using void is a good idea. Plus it does the best damage.

I never claimed to omni tank level 5s.. my ship can NOT omni tank at all unless I swap out a mag stab.

The core multiplier subsystem may allow an extra gun but it negates the ability to use a MWD
MWD on T3s are not a bad idea they are required if you want to get anywere fast. an afterburner would reduce my effective DPS by a massive degree.

Indeed.



Void has a 0.75 x tracking speed multiplier - it decreases your tracking speed by 25%.



Then why do you fit three hardeners wheras most NPCs are focused on two damage types?



100mn AB - fittable thanks to just the power core multiplier and am ACRII...

also void adds to tracking speed. You said so yourself.

Target painting makes it easier to hit the ship regardless.

Webs reduce the ability of the target ship to create transversal, but does absolutely nothing if it's you who is creating the transversal. If you're orbiting them and that's why your blasters are missing, then a web will not help you. If he is orbiting you and he is creating most of the transversal, a web will help you more than a TP.

In that case there should be virtually no transversal anyway but if there was from just your ships derping about at point blank then probably the TP...but you shouldn't be point blank anyway.

So confirming that a TP would make me hit more than a tracking speed increase.

No - unless you're fighting a frigate.


As others have pointed out, your problems may be related to using void as it's ammo meant to shoot big, slow targets at point blank range without any movement involved from either side.

What the other said - alternativlely, you could:

- Fit a tracking computer or enhancer
- Use a dissonic encoding platform instead of a hybrid propiulsion armature
- Post your fit, so we can identify possible ptoblems.

What if I am right behind him slowly colliding with him? Is then a target painter better or a tracking speed better?