Warfare & Tactics

Same. I can't believe I've come back to the game after all this time and this is what's going on. I suppose the maxim of 2013 is the mantra of 2008 still: CCP won't do anything if it results in lower subscriber income, regardless of how good it is for the game.

I use ISBoxer for Stealth Bombers. The key to winning is simplicity. I tried using them to tackle orbit torpedo but it's extremely difficult given you need to use overview and have every bomber do the same thing on overview when the overview changes quite dynamically.

I disagree that damping ECM prevents reacqusition of targets. If you lock a target with ISBOXER while other clients have lock it will still work.

What you want to do is try to screw up the overview. Get in close, get out to range, web a target, drop a can.

Having said that I'm only really going to use my SB to bomb from now on. I have trained them into Drakes which are another ship which has minimal babysitting. Sit in one place and spam missiles. Anything more complex IMO is going to present problems.

One more thing if they're using broadcast to control their team the above won't work.

Not really but if any of their overviews have cans or other objects that aren't on their other overviews it'll completely screw up targeting, orbiting etc.

And if they're basing overview in distance getting in real close will mess things ups.

I put mine on name sorted now so usually all overviews are identical.

You could call the module the Server Crasher 2000.

As for overview messing up an ISboxer, if you're relying on sorting by distance you're going to get screwed. You should always be broadcasting targets and targeting off the broadcasts. Then the overview won't cause you problems. Nothing quite like having your alts raining hell on each other instead of the enemy.

I'm a proponent of cycling ecm across their whole fleet, using sensor damps, sure it won't stop them forever, but it'll make their life a little more chaotic. Doesn't really hurt the targeting, but it does screw up the gun cycling if they are using F1.

I am sure you do not know anything most of us 'scrubs' don't already know.

Why post on an alt if you are so knowledgeable?

I have a little bomber squad. Would I rather have a gang that could play when I play on call 24 hours a day sure, but until I win one of those US lottories I think even employing a bunch of offshore guys from Mumbai is not in my EVE budget...

CCP have turned EvE into blobs online so unfortunately we have to "adapt" or not play. "Adapting" with ISBoxer is a better solution than trying to solo which is close to impossible now.

If you have fleet of people to zip around with then congrats but I don't most of the time since I'm Aussie and play at low pop times, and tbh, I love multiple bomber boxing, fun as hell, not easy either.

As for the safe spot bombing, I bombed a dweeb in a safespot the other day. I was on grid when he cloaked, 250km off a gate, so I used the overlay, + the gate as a reference point, my ship as another reference point and the range circles on the map to estimate whereabouts he was and popped him.

Its a 30km sphere of possibiity, that's a pretty big area.