Crime & Punishment

Ok, through the year's I've given this a try every now and then to no satisfaction.

I want to sit at the gate in my BS and smartbomb all the pods, noobships, and shuttles coming my way.... only every time I try this, i'm the required distance for my SB's 6750kms, here comes a pod, I got 2500 volley, but nothing happens to the pod.

They are continuously going, got enough cap, etc, but nothing. I'm in-line with the other gate, guys have to pass by me.

Is this a luck thing? Is it a timing thing? what am i missing here?

When do i need to start lighting them off?

Thanks for any of your help.

You are probably setting them off too late or too far away. If they get into warp they become invunerable and cannot take damage.

Try warping a little bit closer.

Just so its said once:

Some people might expect smartbombers and will warp to a celestial object close to the exit-gate before warping to the exit gate.

Alternatively you could just light the smartbombs when the pod is inside your radius. Lists and stopwatch sound very professional, but I doubt every ship has the same amount of nanos, inertias, and even pilot skill.

OP: It's nice if you have enough cap to let all smartbombs run, but you will never get even a noobship if you don't practice timing and hit that ship with all bombs at once.

Also you can use exploits to not appear in local right santo?

cycle them, do it on manual count as the visual graphics usaly lag behind. sb's are also bugged after 1 cycle there is a chance that sb actual cycle but dont apply damage. its petetioned and bughunters know this.

i bolded the part that puzzles me. you can not activate smartbombs when you are in range of a stargate. depending on the smartbombs you use, get as close as you can to the gate (from memory: T1/best named = 5000m, be at least 5001m from the gate, T2 = 6000m, be at least 6001m away from the gate. deadspace/faction/officer = see the range of said bomb)

Also. we (the united) did not write the book on smartbombing (read : started smartbombing high traffic pipes), that "honor" falls to Heiiki, if memory serves me well. at best we wrote the sequel

PRO-tip 1: use tactical overlay, hover your mouse over one of your smartbombs (after target shows up on D-scan) to see the range of your smartbombs. depending on your lag/latency, as soon as your intended target is about to hit or is inside the smartbomb bubble, set of the smarties. takes a little practice. (lots of lag : set off bombs before target hits bubble. again, takes practice.)

PRO-tip 2: Logitech G15/G19 keyboard

Ahhhh, i found out my mistake. I obviously wasn't lined up correctly with the incoming ships.

I lined my ship up as if it were a mobile warp bubble, and presto!

Worked like a champ!

Thanks for all the help!!!!!

Like was mentioned earlier, you can't hit the gate because you can't activate the SB while in range of the gate (or a station). But you have to go another further 1km out from there to avoid pissing off the gate guns.

I don't know if its a falloff thing, or just an extra buffer they programmed in or what, but that's how it is. If your SB range is 6750, you have to be 7750+ away not to trigger gun aggro on a miss.