Ships & Modules

Falcon do the same job in less than half of window price, so if you are planning to hotdrop a target falcon will be more suitable.

You get a bomber or other hunter with a scram/web to light a cyno next to the target, and full damage from 310m / 90m/s covers all ratting BS and up <.<

Torpedoes in general have become a useless weapon suited only for POS bashing and capital killing. Even the T1 explosions are bigger and slower than most battleships, so you can't even apply full DPS to ships of the same class, never mind you're already waiting several seconds for your volley damage to apply while everyone else was click and done. Rapid heavies may take forever to reload, but at least you can count on doing full damage to wide variety of targets with minimal weapon mods, so you don't have to sacrifice your tank or utility, and the missiles are several orders of magnitude faster than torps, so the wait time between module activation and damage application is shorter. Even cruise missiles apply damage well to cruisers, and they haul. Torps are like scarabs in Starcraft when they get hung up on a piece of terrain or stuck on one unit while trying to get to another.

Why does everyone bring this up? The Alliance Tournament is almost a completely different game than EVE Online. It's not playing EVE Online at all. It resembles EVE only in core mechanics. It's an EVE mod made from EVE's game engine. You don't care about ISK lost in an AT fight, only that you blow up all of them before they blow up all of you. ISK ratios are irrelevant. That ain't true in the real world, where losing 1 Widow makes a bigger ISK dent than losing an entire fleet of T1, even entire fleets of some T2. You aren't concerned as much about lock time in the AT because people aren't going to be warping off. Unless it blows up before you can lock it, in which case you never cared about in the first place, you will lock it eventually unless their ewar beats you to the punch. In the really real world, things warp away. In the really real world, I'd like to actually be on the kill mails, so even if something isn't a threat to me, I'd still like to at least lock it and hit it with something so I get credit. IN the really real world, BLOPs aren't used for ewar. Every other BLOPs ship gets damage bonuses. The Widow, mysteriously, gets an ewar bonus and the slowest lock time known to sub-caps. In the really real world, the Widow sucks. And in the really real world, I'm not in any danger of ever participating in the AT in a Widow, and neither are most of you. I really don't care how it does in the AT. That is the stupidest argument for a ship.

How **** is your tackle.

The really real world, A Conference Call in Real Life . This topic is like this video