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MadGaz
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Posted - 2004.04.04 01:10:00 -
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Just bought an interceptor myself, about 20 days away from using it and I cant wait hehe. Got it for 5mill which I dont think is bad. I go through frigs / cruisers so fast I'm just hoping I wont get this one killed straight away hehe
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.04.04 01:25:00 -
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I have both the Ares and the Taranis, and I really love those little ships even though I don't do fleet battles. Brilliant for getting yourself somewhere fast for pickups or deliveries, travel is like flying an mwd-equipped shuttle. Also lot of fun to take them out in a low sec empire belt just to kill some 15K frigates and the occasional lower level npc cruiser. So I don't regret the training time and isk at all. 
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Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2004.04.04 01:39:00 -
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Interceptors are good for selling.They cost next to nothing to build and they sell for 6-8 million a piece, my wallet grows fatter by the day.
HURRAY FOR PRICE FIXING. 
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Ruffio Sepico
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Posted - 2004.04.04 03:40:00 -
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Interceptors are good for selling.They cost next to nothing to build and they sell for 6-8 million a piece, my wallet grows fatter by the day.
HURRAY FOR PRICE FIXING.
Cost next to nothing to build? what kind of planet did you fall off? 
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Levin Cavil
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Posted - 2004.04.04 10:59:00 -
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Edited by: Levin Cavil on 04/04/2004 11:02:29
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Joshua you truely are very lame at this game to say Interceptors are ****e
I pity you
To the poster they are a SUPERB addition to any fleet and can make the difference between catching/killing folks and them warping away.
NO other ship can do the chase and lock down role better than an Interceptor.
Also they are SO fun to fly..and we all like fun.
Try flying a rifter there bud. For ~400k I get a ship that can PWN any frigate, interceptors included. That is not to say that interceptors arent great, they just aren't so great that the training time is justified, and the cost is way too high but that will go down in time.
Anyway, if you have time to train one then do but it isn't a guaranteed victory, just an edge.
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Cartiff
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Posted - 2004.04.04 11:09:00 -
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Edited by: Cartiff on 04/04/2004 11:11:32
gotta backup Levin Cavil here, i fly rifters and I've killed 2 interceptors this week in my rifter
1 of them i can blame on bad fitting on the interceptor, but the first 1 was a truly fun battle.
Rifters Rule
Will have to train up for an interceptor though, fought lots of em and I'm extremely impressed
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Gariuys
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Posted - 2004.04.04 11:12:00 -
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Interceptors are not overpriced, they cost as much as a single cruiser gun, and the same holds true for them as for anything in this game, if you can't afford to lose it... don't fly it.
For a BS sized meta turret people are paying anywhere between 5-40mil ( or more ) that's for a 5-20% increase in stats on a single gun. Personally I think a interceptor is a much bigger improvement over standard frigates then 5-20% so the cost is justified.
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Ithildin
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Posted - 2004.04.04 11:13:00 -
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As far as I can tell from the eve-db, it seems the elite frigate skills will be required for their elite cruiser big brother. This makes Interceptors a bit better, although maybe not the actual ship...
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OFFT
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Posted - 2004.04.04 11:24:00 -
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I will test fly my Raptor and Crow in 11 days....
Counting ....oh the seconds hurt
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MSDborris
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Posted - 2004.04.04 17:21:00 -
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from all ive heard of the intercepters, and looking at the gal / cald frig ive decide'd not to go for an intercepter. i may take the time to train for a recon / scout ship ( less skill training i belive in my eyes )
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Hellena
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Posted - 2004.04.04 21:21:00 -
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Edited by: Hellena on 04/04/2004 21:27:34
2x post ..yay lag.
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Hellena
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Posted - 2004.04.04 21:26:00 -
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sub second locking on crusiers is always fun  plus having a 16m sig radius makes things a bit tricky for larger ships to target. slap on a dampner(s) and well...you do the math.
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Gaius Kador
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Posted - 2004.04.05 00:58:00 -
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You can weave magic with those little bees :)
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khainestar
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Posted - 2004.04.05 09:33:00 -
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The major downside to these little beauties is the fact that them seem to be made out of balsa wood and tinfoil. You have major difficulties locking and hitting them but it only take one good hit to make them go pop and at 9-10 mill each they aren't disposable ships.
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Miso
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Posted - 2004.04.05 09:47:00 -
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I fly a crow and a raptor, currently training for a taranis - and I have to say interceptors are fantastic.
Ive got my crow tactics nailed down now, and it works a dream. Battleship pilots may not fully appreciate their charms, but us frigate pilots love them. I certainly can't be without one now
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.04.05 11:36:00 -
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The major downside to these little beauties is the fact that them seem to be made out of balsa wood and tinfoil. You have major difficulties locking and hitting them but it only take one good hit to make them go pop and at 9-10 mill each they aren't disposable ships.
I'd guess that the major problem for interceptors is the "dice roll" that appears to control the quality of hits, which means that the turret eventually will get a perfect, wrecking strike against something that exceeds its tracking ability.
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Ukiah
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Posted - 2004.04.05 13:29:00 -
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I LOVE interceptors. The only 'mistake' I made was training for the Amarr one. And that may not have actually been a mistake, but I'm training up Gallente frig to 5 now for a taranis.
I think they're worth the hype, but I'd sure like to see the prices come down.
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SKiNNiEH
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Posted - 2004.04.05 13:35:00 -
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You didnt make the mistake of training Amarr interceptors. Sure, people are medslot horny... but if someone would run from my "nonEW"-Crusader, i consider that a victory too.
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Shevar
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Posted - 2004.04.05 13:36:00 -
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Interceptors are not overpriced, they cost as much as a single cruiser gun, and the same holds true for them as for anything in this game, if you can't afford to lose it... don't fly it.
For a BS sized meta turret people are paying anywhere between 5-40mil ( or more ) that's for a 5-20% increase in stats on a single gun. Personally I think a interceptor is a much bigger improvement over standard frigates then 5-20% so the cost is justified.
Well this is a bit wrong, interceptors cost around 2.5 to 3 million to make, and are sold on average for 5.5 million atm.
The problem though is that the diffrence between 200k and 5500k isnt 5-20% :P
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Lucas De'Thal
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Posted - 2004.04.06 06:30:00 -
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I'm still a little iffy on how the crow is a good interceptor. I've seen many say it's one of the best....but with only a turrent and 3 launchers, I just don't see it....
any crow pilots care to enlighten me?
(and I ask this mainly cause I've started training this first and am starting to 2nd guess myself to go with gallente)
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Sun Wu
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Posted - 2004.04.06 08:20:00 -
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I can fly all of them, the crow is nice because of the 4/3/3 setup, 3 launchers with cruise are really nice and 3 med means you can carry the MWD, aswell as either 2 scrambler, 1 scrambler + something else, depending on what you are doing, and if you are soloing or flying in groups.
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SKiNNiEH
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Posted - 2004.04.06 08:22:00 -
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@Sun Wu...
What do you think of a Crusader?
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EVENFLOW
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Posted - 2004.04.06 09:11:00 -
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Would a well timed smartbomb not put a serious foot in the a$$ of an interceptor?
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Brian Detaah
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Posted - 2004.04.06 10:17:00 -
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I'm still a little iffy on how the crow is a good interceptor. I've seen many say it's one of the best....but with only a turrent and 3 launchers, I just don't see it....
any crow pilots care to enlighten me?
(and I ask this mainly cause I've started training this first and am starting to 2nd guess myself to go with gallente)
Sure...The crow is a neat little package. Fit dual modded mwds and go 25 kms. With 2 150mm compressed and 2 launchers you can pack a punch and at a pretty good range (as frigs are fast dont underestimate it for hurting things). Just flip 2 aux reactors on and you are cruising. You cpu can handle anything you try to fit and aux handle power. and you can launch on the side. The bonus (missil launcher ROF) is unfortunately crap, but you cant have it all.
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Juan Andalusian
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Posted - 2004.04.06 10:46:00 -
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Crow packs a good punch. However due to it's main armament being missiles it has problems fighting vs other frigs, especially other interceptors. At least those interceptors and frigate flown by pilots who can manually navigate.
It's nemesis is the Taranis. Most would argue that countering the Taranis only requires one web but the taranis can still fire and web back. Most likely scenario would be both you of getting killed. Crow frist from the blaster shots and the Taranis shortly after from the second missile salvo.
Best option would be to ECM the Taranis. Only requires one med slot.
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Joe
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Posted - 2004.04.06 11:47:00 -
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I've been flying a Taranis since the weekend, and the only thing I've noticed Different from the Standard Frigates is the speed.
I've piloted Punishers and Tristans for quite a while, and can only get similar results in Npc combat with an Intercepter. The kills aren't quicker, the weapons do the same damage, although with a slightly larger grid/cpu I can upgrade a couple of mods.
BS lock me at the same speed they allways have.
I Have Intercepter skill lvl 4, and so far bs i've come across have locked me at times ranging from 20 to 2 seconds. Yes a typhoon locked me in 2 seconds. Don't believe the hype about signature radius.
The only difference is the speed, 500m/s+ cruisen, or 3500m/s+ with 1 mwd, pretty useless against Npc, But great in PvP if you like to WarpScramble and run, or nab loot.
5.5 mil for an Intercepter is unbelievable imho. I would like to see the sellers regulating the cost, fixing Intercepters prices at an even higher price, like 10 mil . People actually earn their Tech II BPO's, they're not availible in every navy station in the galaxy like a common BPO, theres no reason why sellers are undercutting each other, there's tens of thousands of subscribers, and only a few dozen tech II bpo owners of each type.
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Juan Andalusian
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Posted - 2004.04.06 12:00:00 -
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the weapons do the same damage, although with a slightly larger grid/cpu I can upgrade a couple of mods.
Incorrect. Especially when you refer to the Taranis, which has the standard hybrid damage bonus coupled with a ROF for hybrids bonus.
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Don't believe the hype about signature radius.
Yup this is correct. Signature radius bonus is a joke. Only trained it in preparation for the next line of elite frigs.
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Ukiah
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Posted - 2004.04.06 12:12:00 -
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You didnt make the mistake of training Amarr interceptors. Sure, people are medslot horny... but if someone would run from my "nonEW"-Crusader, i consider that a victory too.
Well, the Malediction just LOOKS super cool. I had a crusader at one point, sold it again within a few days because I just couldn't get a setup on it that I liked. And for all the extra hp I got and higher base speed, the accompanying mass made it have the same high end speed as my malediction and it seemed sluggish by comparison. Was harder to outfit too. The lower CPU was really hard to work around.
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Joe
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Posted - 2004.04.06 12:54:00 -
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the weapons do the same damage, although with a slightly larger grid/cpu I can upgrade a couple of mods.
Incorrect. Especially when you refer to the Taranis, which has the standard hybrid damage bonus coupled with a ROF for hybrids bonus..
Flying a Tristan, you get a 5% bonus to damage/tracking per lvl of Gallente frigate. The Taranis 'race' bonus is 25% to damage/tracking and one of the skill requirement for flying Intercepters, is Gallente Frigate Lvl 5.
They do the same damage, and neither give you a rof bonus.
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Juan Andalusian
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Posted - 2004.04.06 13:09:00 -
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They do the same damage, and neither give you a rof bonus.
1) How can a ship that can fit max 2 turrets match the damage of a ship that can fit 3?
2) I bet you 9mil skill points that the Taranis gives you a ROF bonus.
It's beed a bad day at work and tbh i feel inclined to flame you a bit... but i ll give you the benefit of the doubt: Perhaps you are looking at the Ares (arguably the worst Interceptor).
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