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Jack Target
Eve University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2007.09.18 09:57:00 -
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Edited by: Jack Target on 18/09/2007 09:59:44
What is the difference between inertial stabilizers and nanofiber internal structures?
I think they both make your ship more manoeuvrable - but is one better than the other?
Does it depend on the mass of your ship to begin with etc? Does one affect afterburner/microwarpdrive speed and the other 'normal' cruise speed etc?
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Tailhook
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.09.18 10:28:00 -
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 Originally by: Jack Target
Edited by: Jack Target on 18/09/2007 09:59:44
What is the difference between inertial stabilizers and nanofiber internal structures?
I think they both make your ship more manoeuvrable - but is one better than the other?
Does it depend on the mass of your ship to begin with etc? Does one affect afterburner/microwarpdrive speed and the other 'normal' cruise speed etc?
1. I-stabs affect agility, nanos affect mass, the penalty for I-stabs is more severe, signature is normally pretty bad if you are going for speed, while damage taken to hull means you are already in deep s***, but I-stabs has a greater percent effect to compensate.
2. Depends, total nibleness is agility*mass, so a percent reduction of either gives the same net effect, stacking nerf makes the total effect best with I-stab->I-stab->Nano.
3. Not really, see #2, none of them effect cruise speed, nanos used to do this, nanos effect AB/MWD speed I-stabs does not. So what you want on your ship really depends on what you want to do with it.
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Aramendel
Amarr
Coreli Corporation
Exuro Mortis
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Posted - 2007.09.18 10:36:00 -
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Originally by: Tailhook
the penalty for I-stabs is more severe, signature is normally pretty bad if you are going for speed
Depends. When you are not using a MWD, yes, however when you are using it the penalities of the istab do not make much of a difference.
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Jack Target
Eve University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2007.09.18 10:48:00 -
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How about afterburners? Would the penalty of the Istabs be negligible then?
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Adqam
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2007.09.18 10:54:00 -
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Originally by: Jack Target
How about afterburners? Would the penalty of the Istabs be negligible then?
The reason that MWDs were mentioned is that they drastically increase your sig radius (>500%) anyway. AB does not effect sig radius, so the penalty of istabs is still an issue - get locked faster, get hit more, take more damage. With an AB, nanos also increase your boosted speed...
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Tailhook
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.09.18 11:07:00 -
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Originally by: Adqam
The reason that MWDs were mentioned is that they drastically increase your sig radius (>500%) anyway. AB does not effect sig radius, so the penalty of istabs is still an issue - get locked faster, get hit more, take more damage. With an AB, nanos also increase your boosted speed...
Yeah, with a sig radius of a moon, you will not really feel the difference of whether thats a small or a large one  but this is just when nanos shine, since a moon needs speed, and lots of it.
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Reem Fairchild
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Posted - 2007.09.18 12:17:00 -
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Originally by: Jack Target
Edited by: Jack Target on 18/09/2007 09:59:44
What is the difference between inertial stabilizers and nanofiber internal structures?
I think they both make your ship more manoeuvrable - but is one better than the other?
Does it depend on the mass of your ship to begin with etc? Does one affect afterburner/microwarpdrive speed and the other 'normal' cruise speed etc?
Inertial stabilizers have no effect on speed whatsoever, but they increase your agility.
Nanofibers don't increase regular velocity, but they increase the speed boost you get from afterburners and microwarpdrives and they increase your agility a little bit.
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ry ry
StateCorp
The State
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Posted - 2007.09.18 12:30:00 -
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Originally by: Reem Fairchild
Inertial stabilizers have no effect on speed whatsoever, but they increase your agility.
which in turn effects the speed you can orbit a target at.
OP, a mix of istab/nano/ods is your best bet. don't bother putting more than 2 of any of them on either; eg. you'll get more out of using 2 od and a nano than 3 od.
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Laurent Metisse
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.09.18 12:56:00 -
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Personally i prefer on frigates nanofiber's or nano's mixed with overdrive's in combination with an afterburner.
Speed and agility is the life safer of these ships and an increased signature radius will let you die very fast against bigger guns.
For interceptors due to the signature bonus or bigger ships where increased signature isn't an issue inertia's can be used but it all depends on what you are going to do with the ship.
For example at blockade running the alignment time before warp is very important.
If i remember correctly, in EFT the alignment time is shown depending on the fitted modules so you can play around with it.
Greetings,
Laurent
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