EVE General Discussion

I'm a carebear, industrialist/mission runner. I have to admit to playing EVE poorly and will never aspire to the ranks of a Titan pilot or even a carrier. That's not why I play EVE.

What I don't understand is why the folks who DO fly Supercarriers/Titans etc. look down on people flying frigates/Interceptors. I have a BS, a Raven that I use occasionally but not often. Why? Because I find lumbering around, at 50-60Km range a bit slow and tedious. Now with my Taranis I can get in fast, dump my drones and blast away.

O.K. I am confined to level2/3 missions and don't make a lot, but as I said that's not why I play. So why is it that I'm considered to be of no account, a "loser" and a "noob"?

Surely the tactics of successfully tackling larger ships than the one you are flying are just as worthy as achieveing the heights of Titanhood. If so why not admit that the game offers different goals for different people and leave it at that

Actually iirc, one of goonswarm's tactics involve a swarm of frigates taking out a titan like angry wasps.
let's face it: alone, a battlecruiser or above is just fodder for anybody plucky enough to be fast enough and close enough.

all the ship classes have their roles to fill, but that doesn't stop me wishing i could equip point defenses on my battleship.

Actually Goonswarm's 'welpfleet' tactic uses swarms of AC-fitted Hurricanes, not frigates.

Your battleship does have "point defence"; all BS have a drone bay. Every BS can carry a flight of Warrior II and a flight of EC-300s.

uh, sure, it's in this particular eve wiki anyway, so it's taking it at sheer face value.

http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=GOONSWARM


really it boils down to sheer DPS, if you've got enough of it, you can bring down anything.

I like how you have exaggerated killing a HAC with frigates to killing a titan with frigates.

I think you probably meant using a bunch of AC canes to take down supercarriers. But that is not what you said...

Right on the money, it takes uber pee-vee-pee skillz to pilot a titan/sc.

Like the saying goes in certain circles, buying an expensive DSLR does not make you a photographer,
it just makes you an owner of an expensive DSLR.

Because, having wasted so many hours of their lives grinding ISK for a supercap and/or character - or often, having given so many dollars/euros to RMTers - they have a psychological urge to convince themselves that they've made a wise decision in their lives, and so hide themselves behind a superiority complex (when in fact we're all just a bunch of silly nerds playing a pretend spaceship game).

Fail quote instead of edit.

The main reason for super cap pilots "looking down" on smaller ship pilots is simply that they think bigger is better. They have no idea how to play the game other than to follow orders, and most likely are trying to compensate for diminutive sexual organs.