Ships & Modules

Hello,

I was hoping someone can help me with a few questions I can't seem to find the answer for.

Background:

I solely L4 combat missions in highsec. Usually in a navy megathron. Never leave highsec (after being shot down 10x trying) and avoid pvp. Every once in a while, a little frigate will come start looting my wrecks trying to bait me into shooting. Because I fit a very very expensive omnitank, this usually leads to a situation where I shoot and miss the frigate, he comes super close to me and kites/drones/shoots/webs/warp disrupts me. This goes on for AT LEAST 30 minutes each time, before he gives up trying to kill me and all my hobgoblins are shot down. Sometimes, they have one of those logi ship things come repair the frigate, and my corp mates tell me never shoot the logi because he'll ECM me or something that will make my ship useless and open to death from the frigate.

This happens to me fairly often, and before I finish training for a vindicator, i was wondering:

Questions:

1) With the web bonus, would a vindicator with 2 good webs be able to practically immobilize a frigate and thus 1 shot it with blasters?
2) Can repair ships give damage bonuses to frigates? I don't understand how my tank very very slowly goes down (sometimes over an hour) from hobgoblin ii's on a Tristan when I have 80% armor resists.

Sorry for the long post, would appreciate any help!

I completely agree. I stopped shooting them. But I was just wondering, if I do decide to shoot them, whether 2 webs would be enough for my Vindicator to kill them.

And I get robbed all the time for some reason! It's strange. Doesn't happen to others very often, but I'd say 30% of my missions get robbed.

Yes, 2 webs will most likely stop him.

You can test this in EFT, simply create a frigate fitting and pull your webs in the "Projected effects" window at the bottom.

A stock Rifter with overheated MWD ends up with 96 m/s with "All V".


But be aware, once you agressed him he might come back in something more capable of killing your ship.

They found a target in an expensive ship that shoots back and it doesn't seem like you've done it only once. I assume this is why this is happening so often.

Haha. That's a very good point. I stopped shooting back a while ago though, so hopefully it will happen less.

Thank you :D

8 smartbombs, usually a mission baiter doesn't have much ehp. That particular one had so little he lost his pod too.

This is the best thread I've read in a while

after which you'll have a cooldown where he can aggress you freely, and if you pod in highsec, I suggest you check the killrights mechanics very carefully, lest you make a mistake and give up a killright (because if you are near a gate or station in a vindicator with a killright on you, that's a good way to lose that vindicator), and also if using smartbombs you have to be aware of the potential that the person has their scout close to you, cloaked, in which case if you smartbomb an unaggressed player entity, you'll be concorded.

ie yes you can do this, but realistically there are many traps for you doing it.

Relocate. Sounds like you pissed someone off recently (30%).