Missions & Complexes

Rattlesnake is easily the fasted if done right, especially if you are just rushing through mission it will maximize profit.
High slots run 4 cruise missiles launchers or torps if you want, but probably cruise with the buff now. That gives you 2 utility to salvage a few things since you probably wont be coming back with a noctis. Active tank it, yes... active tank that rattle. Run all bcs and drone damage amps in the lows. Use sentries for you main damage, probably gardes and bouncers. This fit will allow you to tank anything, maybe change out a resist now and then. You will do 1200+ dps and the main part of your dps has no ammo cost. Obviously you will need to spend some money on the tank, but not all that much and will still come out cheaper and better than the previously listed ships.

Also you dont have problems with target ships size, just swap drones. If you want to throw more money on the tank, add a target painter.

Mach is still the king of missions.

Also when you get it expensive fit the difference between the others gets much bigger.
For example you can get deadspace MWD and some A-type or X-type shield booster. Those 2 things will make your Mach the true king.
My Mach has 2 officer mods, with them my ship is cap stable with X-type x-large SB on. You also get 1500+ m/s velocity with MWD which makes your DPS almost the same as on paper since you don't waste your time on traveling.

P.S. even with this cruise buff the missiles still fail to apply the full damage because of AFs rats use, Defenders and very small sig.
For example 2 defenders will kill 50% of damage of golem's volley. So the more launchers you have the lower damage loss will be.

All in all nothing compares to Mach. I still can't complete AE in pimped CNR for less than 20 mins.

That isn't how DPS works.

Once you know how many volleys you need there is no DPS loss, only DPS delayed.

This means with equal DPS a missile finish a mission ~5 seconds slower total. Not per ship.

Avoiding dread pirate scarlet because of her 5 mil bounty for 1 salvo

2013.02.15 15:52:04 Bounty Prizes 14,591,250.00 ISK

did that in a t2 fit domi some time ago, had I had more firepower it would still have been the same amount, because I was entering a pocket in a different system when the wallet flashed. The problem with mission ticks is that they get curtailed by the red crosses running out before the 20 minutes are up.

I find ticks are limited by a lack of rats - plus I usually dual box so....hrm, skewed.

Did the assault in 21 minutes last night, drunk to boot and my alts skills are....not 'mission oriented'

Would have been faster, but wine made me forget to lift longer range drones.

I levered up my alts standings with this character, so its much easier to just trigger a mission with my alt, and then do missions with this till they coincide, its not too hard a test to synthesize, but pocket clearing isn't best isk anyway.

you'll get a feel of how many missiles are needed to kill certain npcs, comes with experience.

This... and add mwd cycles where you easily lose 50% of the volley when npc is decelerating. Its beyond me how people dont see it, its like they are all theorycrafting and havent actualy used said ships/weapons.

I also dont believe in "counting individual shots" considering you have to manage 2-3 target painters (with different cycle time), your missiles hit with delayed damage (with target at point blank its 3 seconds) and you have NO IDEA if target will get rep, pulses mwd or fires defender (ungouped launchers = bigger chance of defender). And if it does and you already shot your missiles at another target (not target painted I guess), you have to wait 8 secs before shooting another volley at the first target and you are giving npc more chance for another rep cycle/defender... Overkill damage is another great point as it happens against every bc and t1 cruiser and most battleships.


You are right, I dont. Do you know why? Because it takes 5x more time to kill an elite frig with cruise misiles than with guns. Assuming frig wont pulse its mwd/get a rep cycle.
If I could kill the frigs in reasonable time with cruises, I would do it and I would never launch anything else but salvage drones (fleet phoon is completely different beast, because its sentrys have almost 3x more dps than sentries on cnr and they can reliably kill even elite cruisers on their own).


I used t2 rof rig and cap booster (that I switched to sensor booster later). Not sure about web or drones as I never really felt it needs more tracking (keep at range + faster than most npc ships = perfect tracking).

The two omnis I can tack onto my CNR actually make it less of a gap with the phoon, strictly on frigs (the bore in hard and fast so garde range is a non issue), than you'd think. The phoon pulls away on bigger targets.

The gap is still so big that drones on tfi can murder frigate/cruiser/elite cruiser/bc npcs really efficiently on their own. Unlike drones on cnr.

I cant imagine I would actually use sentries on cnr against elite cruisers in sansha blockade - it takes ridiculously long for them to kill a single 250k cruiser. Sentries on tfi can kill them on their own so I dont have to waste a single volley on them. Same for blockades last spawn scram frigs - they just pop to tfis sentries, while they happily get rep cycles against cnrs sentries and I sometimes have to launch lights to kill the surviving frigs (if they point me). When volley of cruises leaves npc bs in hull, I can switch tfis sentries to it and they are actually able to kill it really fast - against cnr sentries npc bs happily gets rep cycles and it takes really long time for them to kill it.

Sentries on cnr simply dont work well as "independent" dps and synchronising their dps with launchers in really problematic because of delayed damage, so you never really know if they actually helped you to shoot 1 volley less or not. They are good for inflating eft dps values though.
It is not the case with gunships, because not a single shot from turret have to be wasted if you dont want to and their instant damage allows you to precisely control outcoming dps.

Tfi is specific case (and drone boats ofc, difference is that on droneboats guns are "secondary"), because on tfi sentries can work as independent dps force, so they have much higher combat value.