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Cearain
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Posted - 2012.01.20 21:10:00 -
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Plutonian wrote:Jude Lloyd wrote:About 6 months ago, I could roam the surrounding systems of Amamake in my Merlin, hopping from belt to belt... and I would find 5 or more targets/fights in a half hour of play time. Now, it's just not the same. Even the amount of frigate traffic in Amamake's belts is half of what it use to be.
I hope lowsec turns around soon.
Well, you'll probably be seeing more AF targets soon. Sadly, their buff will thin out the already scant T1 frigs and cruisers. Until CCP revisits those expect long roams with few targets. 
The best thing they could do to increase the number of t1 frigates is decrease the scan resolution of destroyers. It's foolish to take t1 frigates out when destroyers can lock you and 2 volley you so easilly.
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Cearain
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Posted - 2012.01.20 21:16:00 -
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Plutonian wrote:Stalking Mantis wrote:Plutonian wrote:@Smiling Menace:
I believe Eve needs a PvP outlet that doesn't require the responsibilities of nullsec. Currently, unless you're willing to wardec innocent non-PvP'ers in Empire (which I'd never do) or can-flip miners (which I'd also never do) or suffer the artificial-ality of duels (is that even a word?), you go to lowsec for a good fight. That's what CCP needs to focus on when dealing with the area.
They do have that it is called faction warfare. You saying that tells me you never tried it thus you think that outlet is not available. I did try it for a couple of weeks, but was shocked to find it seemed more about PvE stuff than PvP. There were big fleets running around, but I tend to prefer solo or micro-gang stuff. But all that was back in 2008, and perhaps things have changed. In any case, Grog Drinker, in another thread, makes a very good point; signing up for any faction reduces your targets when compared to staying on the outside and engaging anyone looking for a fight. And to be clear, when I say CCP should focus on lowsec as an area which should provide good fights, I'm not just talking about the pirate/solo game... I'd hope they fix the things with FW too. Anything that gets more combat-seeking, non-cap-flying, small-gang pilots into lowsec is a good thing in my book.
I agree frequent quality small scale pvp should be a priority for low sec generally and fw in particular.
BTW you can use fw plexes to help you get decent fights in low sec. Just open them in a busy system and don't actually run them.(move away from the button) That way the rats won't attack you and you can fight others as they come in.
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Cearain
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Posted - 2012.01.24 15:16:00 -
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X Gallentius wrote:Plutonian wrote:
Can you do this even though you're not enrolled in FW?
Yes.
If they are already open you certainly can.
But I'm not sure if you can scan them. Just hit your on ship system scanner and see if some pop up. The busier the system the better.
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Cearain
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Posted - 2012.01.24 15:26:00 -
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shal ri wrote:Cearain wrote:Plutonian wrote:Jude Lloyd wrote:About 6 months ago, I could roam the surrounding systems of Amamake in my Merlin, hopping from belt to belt... and I would find 5 or more targets/fights in a half hour of play time. Now, it's just not the same. Even the amount of frigate traffic in Amamake's belts is half of what it use to be.
I hope lowsec turns around soon.
Well, you'll probably be seeing more AF targets soon. Sadly, their buff will thin out the already scant T1 frigs and cruisers. Until CCP revisits those expect long roams with few targets. The best thing they could do to increase the number of t1 frigates is decrease the scan resolution of destroyers. It's foolish to take t1 frigates out when destroyers can lock you and 2 volley you so easilly. thats the whole point of dessies. its an anti frig ship. thats its role and it does it very well. plus if ur in a t1 or t2 frig u should be pickin ur targets not flying in with ur head chopped off. not hard to do.
Thats my point. Due to their high scan resolution you can't choose to avoid them.
If they decreased the scan resolution you might be able to pick not to engage a thrasher on a gate. But because the sensorboosted thrashers are practically instalocking you are screwed even in a t1 frigate.
I think the point of dessies is to kill off smaller ships. But I don't think the point is for them to be instalocking gate camp monsters that make it foolish to even try to roam in a t1 frigate. Just drop the scan res to be in the middle between frigates and cruisers so they can't catch frigates that are just trying to warp to the next gate.
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Cearain
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Posted - 2012.01.24 15:48:00 -
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Simi Kusoni wrote:Cearain wrote:Thats my point. Due to their high scan resolution you can't choose to avoid them.
If they decreased the scan resolution you might be able to pick not to engage a thrasher on a gate. But because the sensorboosted thrashers are practically instalocking you are screwed even in a t1 frigate.
I think the point of dessies is to kill off smaller ships. But I don't think the point is for them to be instalocking gate camp monsters that make it foolish to even try to roam in a t1 frigate. Just drop the scan res to be in the middle between frigates and cruisers so they can't catch frigates that are just trying to warp to the next gate. This kind of boils down to "I want to be invincible". In a frigate that costs a few million. Seriously? If you want that, fly a covert ops and hope you don't run in to a camp spiked with drones/cans.
I hardly think decreasing the scan resolution of destroyers would make t1 frigates "invincible." I do think it would make flying t1 frigates a reasonable option again though.
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Cearain
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Posted - 2012.01.25 15:22:00 -
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Plutonian wrote:Cearain wrote:X Gallentius wrote:Plutonian wrote:
Can you do this even though you're not enrolled in FW?
Yes. If they are already open you certainly can. But I'm not sure if you can scan them. Just hit your on ship system scanner and see if some pop up. The busier the system the better. Thanks. That sort of explains what I'd been seeing; a FW player goes to the Minmatar Command Thingie (ain't I technical and stuff), and soon after a beacon appears. He'll be at the beacon for a bit, then he'll leave and it will shut down. Now I've never interfered with people running about doing FW (though I'm starting to question why I restrict my targets to such an extent), but I'd be curious in using the gate itself to constrain warp-in points. (That is, if the beacon acts like a deadspace complex and warping to it at any distance drops you on the gate at zero.) Food for thought. Thanks again.
Yes I think that is correct. You can warp to the gate at different distances but you can not fleet warp to other players - you will land at the gate. Also I do not think you can warp at all inside the complexes but you can use a mwd.
Most plexes are accel gate restricted but some plexes are open. Open plexes obviously anythign can warp in. But the gate restricted ones only certain ships. Right clicking the beacon and checking info will tell you the types of ships allowed in. The accelleration gate will dump everyone in the same spot. So if you want to knwo where people will be dumped you may want to drop a can right where you warp in.
Generally move away from the rats so they don't start to aggro you. They can be a bit of a pain if large numbers keep swarming.
Definitely check them out. They are my favorite mechanic in eve.
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