Ships & Modules

Alot of people don't seem to fly it for pvp and this makes me sad. I only know of a couple people who fly it in Gallente Militia. Most people would rather fly the SFI.

Curious to know why you wouldn't fly it?

I can see it shining in plex fights especially in a medium plex which limits ships to T1 class or faction (no T2). In what other situations can the VNI shine?

Small Drone Bandwidth.

At the end of the day it just cost to much.

I don't like it because the drone bandwidth and drone bay are both too small. It needs 125m^3 drone bandwidth and at least a 200m^3 drone bay. A touch more fittings, speed, and agility would also be nice.

A few years back I spent a long time in a nano Ishtar solo PVPing, but these days drone performance is just utterly underwhelming when compared to turrets and missiles. I don't even think its just a matter of my flying style, but I don't deny that it could be. Here's a couple of recent experiences with the Ishtar, which IMO is just flat better at everything the Vexor Navy tries to do:
- About a week ago I took an Ishtar into a 9v1 where they had Abso, Astarte, bingers, canes, drakes, and a Rook. All I accomplished in that fight was driving the Rook off the field and getting out at about half structure.
- A corp mate tried a different Ishtar fit featuring drone nav comps and his Warriors literally could not track a MWDing interceptor. He ended up losing it because he capped out and his contribution to the fight would have been much higher had he been flying something else.

Yeah... just unacceptable performance TBH.

-Liang

Well an Armor fit Vexor is on average...

- Slower then a Shield Cane.
- Less Damage then a Hurricane if it fits the same tank.
- Less Cap then a Hurricane and can't fit Med Neutralizers
- Has the same to less Tank then a Shield Cane
- To do Gun Damage it has to physically move into knife range where it can be scrammed and webbed and when it gets there it still does less damage then a Cane.

All that for more ISK then a Hurricane with no insurance. Sure it has a better Sig Rad and Scan Res but there are a bunch of Cruisers that also have that and are faster then the Cane. The SFI for instance.

It's an expensive ship that is only better against things that can hit the Hurricane and not it. Even then much better options for that.

Fine I'll get and fly one till it go's pop.
I'm caldari blooded so it will be nano, rails, and hum....... may be shield tanked.
With any luck it won't make it to Monday morning

Well what exactly does the Navy Vexor do that other ships can't, and better?

Attract more fights ?

This along with XG is probably the best answer. The VNI can tank alot of damage at a warp inside a plex. (yeah, I know most of the people don't do FW so this situation may not be relevant for you)

But bringing out the Ishtar/Gila may not bait people into a fight. However, if you bring out the VNI, people are more likely to fight you. You can tank the damage until the cavalry arrives.

I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't have a larger drone bay to hold more drones. I think the bandwidth is fine since it also gets another turret hardpoint. However, if you choose to utilize the full bandwidth, you cannot hold any more drones. Increasing the drone bay to 125 m^3 would be a great improvement as you can now use the full bandwidth and carry a flight of lights. As stated before it suffers from major powergrid problems like many gallente ships. You'd have to use an additional low slot or two just to fit what you need on it. All this negates it's advantage over the vexor.