Ships & Modules

It helps that it's only been that way for a few years:

http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=732

This. Against anything smaller than the Death star, the target painters in the SNI cover the lack of one more cruise launcher.

It is the best ship for newbie L4 semi afk Lock and F1 all the way.

I have finished worlds collide with 2mill SP in less than 40 mins with a SNI and without warping out for shield recharge. Of course you could do better in a mach or another faction BS, but they are quite more expensive and more skill intensive than the SNI.

cnr has a bigger drone bay, and using a t2 rof rig on a navy scorp means you lose any advantage on the cnr unless you have 4+ tps.... and zomg multiple tps is a pain in the ass.



ditto, the new one is just so symmetrical and soulless


if all you are doing is f1'ing away you forgot to use the painters :p

more seriously though, when we talk about ships here we usually assume high skills. and as I said earlier it is only really small fast cruisers where the navy scorp sees an advantage. hell in the long run I doubt you will see a huge difference there unless you have all your launchers ungrouped and are counting every shot.



the tengu is better than the cnr at blitzing mostly due to its ability to aggro a whole room and not drop below 99% shields (mostly the product of its speed and agility). it does similar dps to what the cnr does with launchers, cnr has the addition of a drone bay, usually 3x sentries and 5x lights. oh yes and the tengu loses a bunch of dps when not using kinetic ammo. although most people would rather train for a tengu than cnr, training cruise 5 just feels dirty, caldari bs 5 is at least useful for the nightmare. tbh I'd rather fly a tengu over a navy scorp, but we've mostly been going over battleships here.

mach has much higher base dps and drone bay than varg. also note that it has great agility and can manage transversial very well. tbh I like both ships a lot. Where the nightmare beats the paladin because it can easily fit more damage mods, I have an extra HS and TE on the nightmare compared to my paladin (well unless you want to 4x hs 3x te the pala and shield tank)

Gardes work pretty well on cruisers, bouncers and wardens not so great, but an extra painter or two is again going to make a pretty meh difference overall as it makes you a bit better on cruisers. and the way heavies work they are pretty good on anything, they are just so slow getting from target to target that I don't really use them. and meh haven't really used medium drones in a while.

a t1 rof rig is adding 8 dps, it is the 5th mod for stacking penalty and is nearly worthless (where a t2 one will go first and add about 5% dps). probably better off with a rigor instead.