EVE General Discussion

I would like you to list an example where missiles are better. Challenge: list three examples.

I have trained logi 5, I also have trained mach and vindicator now including sentry drone (only took 27 days for sentry.... bleh). I miss my missiles damnit! They LOOK COOL now all twisting and twirling and ****, and I'm a visual artist who creates computer graphics for a living. I care about how a game looks. See my "Golem is now ruined thread".

So if we all petitioned CCP to stop using smokeless cordite on projectiles and we had a nice old broadside smoke report, you'd be happy, because thats far more awesome than missiles.

And if CCP then proceeded to add a nice blue electric zappy smoke report to hybrids, then you'd never even think about your silly missile chucker again ?

The problem is travel time. Even in regular missions paper dps doesn't equal actual dps. You launch missiles on ships that are already down due to flight time. In incursions that would happen a lot, so you wouldn't do much dps cause the object you fired on wouldn't be there anymore.

No way around the problem really.

Have you seen their ship bonuses lately ever? And no, they're not really outperformed by sentires since, not only are sentries shorter-ranged, their damage selection is limited by range too whereas missiles offer the same damage selection across nearly the entire grid.

Actually missiles can work quite fine in incursions. The problem is you can't be a lazy moron with missiles like you can with a turret. You actually have to pay attention and switch targets at the right time so as to not waste dps. Alas in contests cruise missiles can be troublesome to manage as targets explode at an unpredictable rate and torpedos only apply full dps on towers. As a result the majority of communities dislike missile users.


There is an easy way around the problem. It's called "PAYING ATTENTION" and switching targets properly.

Show me and I might not.

You really don't run incursions do you? It's not a "PAY ATTENTION" problem, I could try to explain it to you but you probably would not understand.

I have run with a wide variety of incursion groups in a variety of ships/roles. I also used to multibox solo incursions with my own VG fleet. I know the ins and outs of incursions. Nothing I said was false and as such you've resorted to name calling.

The only delay that matters is that first shot. From that point on the delay doesn't matter when played properly.

Snide? I stated the truth. You don't really have to pay attention in an HQ incursion while piloting most of the turreted ships. ONly if you're assigned a job does it become something that requires real attention. Set your shield warning to 99%, cap warning to a bit under your stable spot and/or pay slight attention to the overview. Otherwise it's a matter of targeting in the right order at the start of a spawn and hitting f1 occasionally till the next spawn.

With missiles you have to watch everything PLUS distance to target and damage rate. Switching targets properly takes careful attention and that's not something everyone running incursion fleets are willing to do. There's also the sad fact that not everyone playing this game can be the sharpest tack in the box. I don't really blame the public fleets for not wanting to bring missiles along. It's pretty obvious that contest fleets wouldn't want to bring missiles along either.


EDIT : Just in case anyone wonders. Yes the poster didn't actually directly call me a name. THe poster DID imply I was too stupid to understand a simple concept such as incursion running though.