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Incursion: No medium repairers on Logistics!

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Jill Antaris
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#21 - 2013-08-06 00:34:21 UTC
Jack Miton wrote:
nahjustwarpin wrote:
Jack Miton wrote:
if youre fitting med reps on your logi then you are doing it wrong. there's no two ways about it.

you have no idea what you're talking about. there are fits with 5 large meta reppers or 3 large t2, 1 meta and one DS medium, reps 410 instead of 414, but frees pg and allows to fit t2 plate instead of meta. if someone is doing something wrong, is you not using eft

oh im sorry, let me rephrase it:

if youre NOT fitting 4x large T2 reps on your PVE logi, then youre doing it wrong.

PS:
you dont even need a 1600 plate on an VG logi, let alone a T2 one.
you also dont need to be cap stable


Since you obviously don't get it, the fitting was modified for very specific and practical reason by people that got a lot experience in running Incs(we don't fit a medium rep just because we can). Think about why we would prefer a oneiros that requires zero cap management, can use 100% remote rep power the hole site and got a good tank, so it can easily fixed by single RR marauder. Every 4 T2 Rep Oni fitting is vastly inferior for our own needs since it lacks runtime or tank compared to this fitting, with only minimal improvements in remote rep power.

However this is not the topic of the thread, it is revisiting the fitting rules for medium remote rep modules, since I think a lot of newer players could get more useful run times on her fittings and assault/HQ fittings could be improved by it.
Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-08-06 02:08:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Jack Miton
Jill Antaris wrote:
Since you obviously don't get it, the fitting was modified for very specific and practical reason by people that got a lot experience in running Incs(we don't fit a medium rep just because we can). Think about why we would prefer a oneiros that requires zero cap management, can use 100% remote rep power the hole site and got a good tank, so it can easily fixed by single RR marauder. Every 4 T2 Rep Oni fitting is vastly inferior for our own needs since it lacks runtime or tank compared to this fitting, with only minimal improvements in remote rep power.

However this is not the topic of the thread, it is revisiting the fitting rules for medium remote rep modules, since I think a lot of newer players could get more useful run times on her fittings and assault/HQ fittings could be improved by it.

I threw together a 4 T2 rep onieros in about 15 seconds in EFT.
it's cap stable in practice (if you swap rep targets at all it's stable), 1600 plate (m4 admittedly), has 4 slot tank, has 4 tracking links.
for running VG sites, literally the only difference to yours is that it reps more.

Quote:
[Oneiros, Incursions]
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Centum A-Type Energized Explosive Membrane
Dark Blood Power Diagnostic System

Shadow Serpentis Tracking Link, Tracking Speed Script
Shadow Serpentis Tracking Link, Tracking Speed Script
Shadow Serpentis Tracking Link, Tracking Speed Script
Shadow Serpentis Tracking Link, Tracking Speed Script

Large Remote Armor Repair System II
Large Remote Armor Repair System II
Large Remote Armor Repair System II
Large Remote Armor Repair System II

Medium Remote Repair Augmentor II
Medium Remote Repair Augmentor II

swap the PDS for a RC and you can fit a T2 plate and still have plenty of cap for VGs.
standard logi pilot implants assumed.

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Cage Man
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#23 - 2013-08-06 02:51:06 UTC
The FC is responsible for billions of other peoples isk, in the form of their ships, they do what they know works and has little risk. How would you feel in your pimped out vindi if an FC let someone in to come and try a new logi concept and you lost you ship?
Each community has its requirements, if you not happy no one is forcing you to stick around, start your own. I am willing to bet the moment you mention your community is running with medium reps, no one will join. A few HP/s adds up in the end when you start throwing in boosts.
I think in this case the FIFO principle applies.
goldiiee
Bureau of Astronomical Anomalies
#24 - 2013-08-06 03:36:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Goldiiee
Solution to all armor's problems, :)
[Navitas, Perfect Armor Logi]

3x Centii A-Type Small Remote Armor Repair System

1MN Republic Fleet Afterburner
2x Federation Navy Tracking Link

2x True Sansha Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
True Sansha Energized Explosive Membrane

2x Small Remote Repair Augmentor II
Small Semiconductor Memory Cell II

1x Light Armor Maintenance Bot II

[Statistics]
Effective HP: 2,870 (Eve: 2,554)
Tank Ability: 2.64 DPS

Damage Profile - EM: 25.00%, Ex: 25.00%, Ki: 25.00%, Th: 25.00%
Shield Resists - EM: 0.00%, Ex: 50.00%, Ki: 40.00%, Th: 20.00%
Armor Resists - EM: 76.19%, Ex: 73.20%, Ki: 69.04%, Th: 69.04%

Capacitor: Stable at 45.69%
Repair rate 368.5 hp / 182.5 hp/s

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xPredat0rz
Project.Nova
The Initiative.
#25 - 2013-08-06 07:44:45 UTC
90% of the carebears running incursions have their heads up their asses. Yes they my FC fleets worth billions of isk in a "Safe" environment but pilots are ultimately responsible for their own ship.

If a FC constantly welps fleets no one will run with them. Its no different then in pvp. In saying that a smart FC will load up eft and check a fit if it seems weird.

The fact is while that medium rep has less range it will cycle faster. So while it lacks the larger rep amount it will make up for it in rep speed.

Most logi pilots use reps as a group of 2. Meaning i throw 2 reps on the target to see if it tanks then add the third. The only time i go to 4 is in oh **** they aint tanking moments and at that point i am more then likely going to overload anyways..


You could always tell the elites to go pound sand. I make almost as much isk in null sec farming anomalies as i did running blitz fleets back when we did 4-6 minute sites.
Jill Antaris
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#26 - 2013-08-06 10:16:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Jill Antaris
Jack Miton wrote:

I threw together a 4 T2 rep onieros in about 15 seconds in EFT.


And the run time is even shorter than on most TDF fittings...

I can't use the slot 6 pg implant, because some of our fittings require slaves. 2 minutes of run time means lots of micro, what is a pita if you play it for hours no stop, it can't sustain 100% rep over the full site what makes it very impractical in tandem with BS with relative low resists where you need full RR for longer and it would be in major problems as soon as one Oni has a disconnect(because you will lose 25% of you repair power after 30-45s with the normal 2 minute fittings), you start the site with just one logi(since we don't wait on logis) or something happens to the gang links(what means that you need 100% rep + heat non stop, what burns the cap on your oni faster than your reppers). The fitting is build to solve a few issues we had with the normal oneiros fittings in practical day to day game play, is fairly well tested and has not lost a single ship in countless situations where it had to work without a 2. logi for 1-2 minutes or the hole site. If you play it in tandem with a RR marauder you got around the same rr power as 2 guardians -> 6 T2 RR, 1 ds med, 1 set of medium T2 RR drones, 5% less RR from the logi is not important for us, being able to keep up 100% RR with zero micromanagement while having a tank that makes it easy to fix by a RR BS is.

@ Goldiiee it has nothing to do with armor vs shields, I rather don't want this subject in this thread, since I fly both and think it is kind of pointless. My intention is to lift the general ban on medium RR modules in TDF, because they are fairly effective in a lot of setups and offer lots of options to both new and older logistic pilots.

Cage Man wrote:
The FC is responsible for billions of other peoples isk, in the form of their ships, they do what they know works and has little risk. How would you feel in your pimped out vindi if an FC let someone in to come and try a new logi concept and you lost you ship?
Each community has its requirements, if you not happy no one is forcing you to stick around, start your own. I am willing to bet the moment you mention your community is running with medium reps, no one will join. A few HP/s adds up in the end when you start throwing in boosts.
I think in this case the FIFO principle applies.


I fly this fittings for another channel for fleets where a multi billion ISK BS is nothing special but the normal fleet setup that everybody uses. The oneiros fitting is specially build around to work at 100% in situations where other gangs would lose ships and is better than other fittings at preventing loses in worst case scenarios(with 100% succession rate). What logi would you prefer once you lose the 2. logistic? Option A: can sustain 100% reps, even under some neut pressure or option B what has to reduce the RR amount after a few seconds and is utterly screwed under neut pressure since it most of the time operates at the peak recharge point, while having a tank what makes it easy fixable by a marauder?

Btw we run the safest VG fleet of all channels that I know of. We can even survive with zero logis on grid, because we use a single hull unified fleet setup for dps that can build up a massive spider tank if required. We never lose hulls and our logis trade a small amount of effective hp\s(while still having more than most fittings that got used in TDF) for extra durability and a bullet prove cap stability. Nobody is worried that a Guardian or Oneiros with meta 4 repers can't keep people alive, the T2/ds med rep fitting reps even more but should suddenly be a problem for the fleet? That doesn't make sense.

xPredat0rz wrote:
The fact is while that medium rep has less range it will cycle faster. So while it lacks the larger rep amount it will make up for it in rep speed.

Most logi pilots use reps as a group of 2. Meaning i throw 2 reps on the target to see if it tanks then add the third. The only time i go to 4 is in oh **** they aint tanking moments and at that point i am more then likely going to overload anyways..


Medium reppers got the same cycle time as large meta 4 ones(5s). If you work with fairly low resists on BS without plates you use 4 reps most of the time, since the damage intake is fairly high and alpha can take off a massive chunk of armor that needs to be reped back first.
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#27 - 2013-08-07 05:04:48 UTC
Jack Miton wrote:
nahjustwarpin wrote:
Jack Miton wrote:
if youre fitting med reps on your logi then you are doing it wrong. there's no two ways about it.

you have no idea what you're talking about. there are fits with 5 large meta reppers or 3 large t2, 1 meta and one DS medium, reps 410 instead of 414, but frees pg and allows to fit t2 plate instead of meta. if someone is doing something wrong, is you not using eft

oh im sorry, let me rephrase it:

if youre NOT fitting 4x large T2 reps on your PVE logi, then youre doing it wrong.

PS:
you dont even need a 1600 plate on an VG logi, let alone a T2 one.
you also dont need to be cap stable


If you're telling a pilot that something they are highly successful is 'doing it wrong' on the forums, you are doing it like a sheep. Now go get your waders (my welsh friends get that joke dont worry).

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it

Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2013-08-07 18:07:17 UTC
While i understand your evaluation, I don't get the point.

As others have said, often a FC is very busy and looking for replacement Oni pilots he's going to go with something he knows and is familiar with.

Bottom line is the eve-survival fit is solid. Cap stable, reps fine. Fits 4 links. can easily refit to larger sites.

I've flown that fit plenty and get accepted into fleets with no delay.

While your med rep fit may work, why bother over a globally accepted fit.

Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#29 - 2013-08-07 18:23:10 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
While i understand your evaluation, I don't get the point.

As others have said, often a FC is very busy and looking for replacement Oni pilots he's going to go with something he knows and is familiar with.

Bottom line is the eve-survival fit is solid. Cap stable, reps fine. Fits 4 links. can easily refit to larger sites.

I've flown that fit plenty and get accepted into fleets with no delay.

While your med rep fit may work, why bother over a globally accepted fit.



I think its cap stable in a chain not cap stable. His fit uses less cap and runs 22 minutes. The reason to bother with it is ists safer for the fleet if a logi DC's. At least thats the information given which makes me ask why you asked in the first place.

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are serious business sir.

and don't forget it

Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2013-08-07 18:27:19 UTC
Cipher Jones wrote:
Derath Ellecon wrote:
While i understand your evaluation, I don't get the point.

As others have said, often a FC is very busy and looking for replacement Oni pilots he's going to go with something he knows and is familiar with.

Bottom line is the eve-survival fit is solid. Cap stable, reps fine. Fits 4 links. can easily refit to larger sites.

I've flown that fit plenty and get accepted into fleets with no delay.

While your med rep fit may work, why bother over a globally accepted fit.



I think its cap stable in a chain not cap stable. His fit uses less cap and runs 22 minutes. The reason to bother with it is ists safer for the fleet if a logi DC's. At least thats the information given which makes me ask why you asked in the first place.


The eve survival fit that I run is cap stable with everything running. And it has allowed me to be the hero when a logi has dc'd. So I don't understand your comment
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#31 - 2013-08-07 19:18:12 UTC
Even if you can justify your fit, the FC doesn't necessarily have the time to listen to it. That doesn't make him wrong. Also, while the performance of your a-type medium rep might be good, you are giving up some range. Although it looks like the range difference between centum A-type and t2 large is less than 10km, so i guess that isn't a big deal. But whatever, he didn't like your fit. Fix it or find another fleet, or contact him later and make your case, or get someone else to vouch for you and your fit.

But yeah. its interesting. A-type remote reps. woo hoo.

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Zeb DaMadMan2
Duckling System
#32 - 2013-08-07 22:08:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Zeb DaMadMan2
The fact that your trying to do something different is the reason why I would take you on my fleets. This is the exact same thing that happened to me when I used my 5/1 MWD basi with a web going on HQ's years ago. I got a lot of smack saying MWD increases your sig bullshit, when in fact... I actually received less damage than when I was AB. The MWD obviously allowed me to be more flexy, and surprising enough more tanky.
Jill Antaris wrote:

4 meta 4 large RR: 4 * 384 / 5 = 307,2 hp/s
3 T2 + deadspace med RR: 3 * 384 / 4.5 + 312 / 5 = 318,4 hp/s

But ^ is sound enough to be let in with by any FC that can even consider themself an FC... If not, run the other way cause he is probably one of these.

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Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#33 - 2013-08-08 05:59:56 UTC
Its 6 minutes on Eve survival, cap stable with expensive implants.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it

Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#34 - 2013-08-08 12:09:44 UTC
Cipher Jones wrote:
Its 6 minutes on Eve survival, cap stable with expensive implants.


It can be made cap stable easily with a genolution set (40mil total if you don't still have several sets from CCP's gifts over the last year or two). Hardly what I'd call expensive.

Even using an em-805 instead (146mil) isn't horribly expensive considering you are running incursions.
Jill Antaris
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#35 - 2013-08-08 17:45:15 UTC
To summarize the advantages/disadvantages of the fitting a bit:

Pros:

- reps 3% more than a meta 4 RR fitting and got the quicker response time of T2 large RR
- got a much better cap stability compared to every large rep fitting, especially for lower skilled logistic pilots
- it does not require fitting implants, giving you other options for slot 6 or for a pirate implant set
- can use a 4. low for tank and use HG slaves, giving it the best chances to survive worst case scenarios(91k EHP with slaves and links)
- is far easier to RR by a BS with 1-2 remote reps because it got the better resists and a lot more buffer if you use slaves
- can fit a prop mod for Assault and HQ without changing the fitting

Cons:

- reps 5.6% less than a full T2 large RR fitting, however most of the time you will not even utilize all 4 RR
- is a bit more expensive(the med rep is around 40-50M)
- it got 10km less range and 0.5s longer cycle time on the weakest rep(was never a issue)

In my opinion it is a very good compromise, utilizing the maximum amount of tracking links, a very good tank, offering a long run time, don't force you to use fitting implants, can fit a prop mod for Assault/HQ and is one of the best options for worst case scenarios at expense of a fairly small amount of remote rep potential. It should be considered as a valid and useful fitting option.
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#36 - 2013-08-08 18:09:35 UTC
Jill Antaris wrote:
To summarize the advantages/disadvantages of the fitting a bit:

Pros:

- reps 3% more than a meta 4 RR fitting and got the quicker response time of T2 large RR
- got a much better cap stability compared to every large rep fitting, especially for lower skilled logistic pilots
- it does not require fitting implants, giving you other options for slot 6 or for a pirate implant set
- can use a 4. low for tank and use HG slaves, giving it the best chances to survive worst case scenarios(91k EHP with slaves and links)
- is far easier to RR by a BS with 1-2 remote reps because it got the better resists and a lot more buffer if you use slaves
- can fit a prop mod for Assault and HQ without changing the fitting

Cons:

- reps 5.6% less than a full T2 large RR fitting, however most of the time you will not even utilize all 4 RR
- is a bit more expensive(the med rep is around 40-50M)
- it got 10km less range and 0.5s longer cycle time on the weakest rep(was never a issue)

In my opinion it is a very good compromise, utilizing the maximum amount of tracking links, a very good tank, offering a long run time, don't force you to use fitting implants, can fit a prop mod for Assault/HQ and is one of the best options for worst case scenarios at expense of a fairly small amount of remote rep potential. It should be considered as a valid and useful fitting option.



Jill,

At least in my replies I'm not questioning the fit. But say playing devils advocate. While I understand the reasoning behind the fit, I can also understand that often you will have FC's who are in the middle of running fleets, and looking for replacement pilots. They may not have time to ask why you replaced a large rep for a medium, and given a choice between your fit and a more "standard" fleet doctrine fit, will go with the standard fit. And there are good reasons this happens.

I liken it to a choice between say a vindicator pilot with meta4 guns vs a kronos pilot. I would generally go with the kronos pilot. Yes the vindicator generally would be considered a better option, but if busy running a fleet I would have to question why the vindi pilot wasnt running T2 guns. On the other hand, due to the SP requirements of a Kronos, I know his minimum skill level.

So my basic questions was essentially I understand your reasoning for your fit, but have to question why bother. The more "standard" fits work fine, and for me, get me into fleets quickly and without having to justify my skills etc.
Jill Antaris
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#37 - 2013-08-09 08:46:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Jill Antaris
Derath Ellecon wrote:
So my basic questions was essentially I understand your reasoning for your fit, but have to question why bother. The more "standard" fits work fine, and for me, get me into fleets quickly and without having to justify my skills etc.


I bother because I fly logistic ships a lot and think medium modules can make a lot of sense in some fittings. What I want is that this line should be revisited: "Mandatory 4 large armor remote repair systems. DO NOT fit any medium armor remote repair systems." not on the eve survival page, but in the mindset of FCs and the TDF rulebook.

Nearly every meta 4 rep fitting could be improved(longer run time, quicker response time, more rep amount, better tanks, uses less cpu and power grid, 1-2 more links, works without fitting imps) and even compared to a full T2 RR it is very useful in providing better Assault/HQ setups, like using the maximum number of tracking links, a good tank and a high run time in a prop mod fitting or a ton of extra survivability/runtime to be on the save site when logi disconnects happen.

While the fitting is not "standard", but rather prohibited by the module choice, I hope that this will change once people tried them out and come to the conclusion, that fittings with medium modules can be a quite effective alternative compared to full large rep fittings, same as I did.
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2013-08-09 14:19:54 UTC
Jill Antaris wrote:
Derath Ellecon wrote:
So my basic questions was essentially I understand your reasoning for your fit, but have to question why bother. The more "standard" fits work fine, and for me, get me into fleets quickly and without having to justify my skills etc.


I bother because I fly logistic ships a lot and think medium modules can make a lot of sense in some fittings. What I want is that this line should be revisited: "Mandatory 4 large armor remote repair systems. DO NOT fit any medium armor remote repair systems." not on the eve survival page, but in the mindset of FCs and the TDF rulebook.

Nearly every meta 4 rep fitting could be improved(longer run time, quicker response time, more rep amount, better tanks, uses less cpu and power grid, 1-2 more links, works without fitting imps) and even compared to a full T2 RR it is very useful in providing better Assault/HQ setups, like using the maximum number of tracking links, a good tank and a high run time in a prop mod fitting or a ton of extra survivability/runtime to be on the save site when logi disconnects happen.

While the fitting is not "standard", but rather prohibited by the module choice, I hope that this will change once people tried them out and come to the conclusion, that fittings with medium modules can be a quite effective alternative compared to full large rep fittings, same as I did.


In that case I wish you luck in your endeavor. Until then when I want to make some isk running incursions I will stick to the fits that get me accepted into fleets fast and without questions.
James Baboli
Warp to Pharmacy
#39 - 2013-08-10 11:18:38 UTC
It makes sense to me as far as the math and tradeoffs, but did you not say that it pulls the damage drones off the logi in order to make the rep difference up?
Perhaps the FC had a fleet that was taking too long as his drone bunny had too few drones, and thus wanted the damage drones.

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Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#40 - 2013-08-11 07:16:13 UTC
xPredat0rz wrote:
The fact is while that medium rep has less range it will cycle faster.

No it won't.

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