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Heard Crazy Rumour that Inertial Stabilisers were going bye bye, can someone confirm yes/no
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Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#1 - 2011-11-18 04:30:40 UTC
Heard that tonight, very hard to believe.

I have not been able to get on Sisi to confirm one way or the other.
Has anyone seen them still on Sisi?
non judgement
Without Fear
Flying Burning Ships Alliance
#2 - 2011-11-18 04:47:15 UTC
They are still on Sisi.
Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#3 - 2011-11-18 04:48:15 UTC
non judgement wrote:
They are still on Sisi.


Thanks.
I thought it was nutty.
Grath Telkin
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2011-11-18 04:51:01 UTC
Not sure why anybody uses them anyway, nanofibers are infinitely better.

Malcanis - Without drone assign, the slowcat doctrine will wither and die.
Shivus Tao
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-11-18 04:54:07 UTC
Grath Telkin wrote:
Not sure why anybody uses them anyway, nanofibers are infinitely better.


Inertial stabilizers are better for a highsec shuttle. Going down into low or especially nul, nanofibers do become much better.
Aqriue
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-11-18 05:06:35 UTC
I will take an Inert Stabilizer over a Nanofiber anyday, faster align time is great at the cost of a slightly increased signature. Nanofibers eat into your buffer (vs the signiture size increase, which is minor) and moar buffer is a good thing. Now if it was PVP I would probably go Nanofiber, but for traveling and general GTFO about Inert Stabs are better while manual piloting.
Grath Telkin
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2011-11-18 05:22:23 UTC
Ok but a higher sig= something thats trying to lock you achieving that lock faster, if you're worried about buffer you're obviously worried about getting shot, and that to me would insinuate anything locking you would be bad, and so a native increase in your signature radius being a bad thing.

BUT

Whatever floats your boat.

Malcanis - Without drone assign, the slowcat doctrine will wither and die.
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#8 - 2011-11-18 05:34:42 UTC
Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
Heard that tonight, very hard to believe.

I have not been able to get on Sisi to confirm one way or the other.
Has anyone seen them still on Sisi?


They're borderline useless, I wouldn't be surprised.
Crias Taylor
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2011-11-18 06:16:07 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
Heard that tonight, very hard to believe.

I have not been able to get on Sisi to confirm one way or the other.
Has anyone seen them still on Sisi?


They're borderline useless, I wouldn't be surprised.


They are kind of useful on Viators that actually need to get past camps but not much cargo room but the rig version is the one that tends to get used.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#10 - 2011-11-18 06:46:33 UTC
Grath Telkin wrote:
Ok but a higher sig= something thats trying to lock you achieving that lock faster, if you're worried about buffer you're obviously worried about getting shot, and that to me would insinuate anything locking you would be bad, and so a native increase in your signature radius being a bad thing.

BUT

Whatever floats your boat.



Since Eve operates on 1 second ticks, once your Interceptor/Instalock Ship Theta has the scan resolution to lock your ship in under 1 second, it will always take that second to lock it. I-Stabs let your cloaked ship get in warp faster, hopefully saving you from being decloaked. Since any half decent interceptor will have the scan res to lock anything frigate or better in under a second, the increase in sig radius is irrelevant.

Because Nanofibers also increase speed, they're worse for align/warp time than I-Stabs for 2 reasons.

tl;dr I-Stabs when align/warp time is your concern, Nanos if you want to go zoom-zoom

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mkint
#11 - 2011-11-18 07:10:40 UTC
Istabs when you need to move several battleships 20+ jumps through hisec every time.

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Botleten
Perkone
Caldari State
#12 - 2011-11-18 08:01:14 UTC
Inertial stabilizers are still there, but I heard from a friend's cousin's roommate's brother that theyre removing ECM.
Justine Valentine
Unknown Unnamed Corp
#13 - 2011-11-18 08:59:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Justine Valentine
Botleten wrote:
Inertial stabilizers are still there, but I heard from a friend's cousin's roommate's brother that theyre removing ECM.


It wasn't ECM. They talked about all capacitor mods, so ships will die more often cose capstable won't be achievable (well, Sacrilage is the only "haha who cares" ship).

It's true.


Anyway, ontopic: Inertial stabilizers are much better than nanofibers. Faster align = win.
Grath Telkin
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#14 - 2011-11-18 09:49:52 UTC
Justine Valentine wrote:


Anyway, ontopic: Inertial stabilizers are much better than nanofibers. Faster align = win.


You do know that nanofibers help your align time too right?

Malcanis - Without drone assign, the slowcat doctrine will wither and die.
Heian Galanodel
The Thalanide Crew
#15 - 2011-11-18 10:03:08 UTC
Justine Valentine wrote:
Botleten wrote:
Inertial stabilizers are still there, but I heard from a friend's cousin's roommate's brother that theyre removing ECM.


It wasn't ECM. They talked about all capacitor mods, so ships will die more often cose capstable won't be achievable (well, Sacrilage is the only "haha who cares" ship).

It's true.


Anyway, ontopic: Inertial stabilizers are much better than nanofibers. Faster align = win.


I think Botleten was joking. I mean... friend's cousin's roommate's brother?? Hehe Big smile

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