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How to keep your Mackinaw and Hulk from being killed.
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Mary Reed
Not going Away
#1 - 2011-12-03 07:25:50 UTC
Someone asked me, while I was mining one day, how a suicide ganker in a brutix was unable to kill me on a suicide run.

I said scroll back from that view you have looking at your own ship and look around you.

What do you see?

He said I see a bunch of mackinaws, and orcas, and haulers and a couple of Scimitars.

I said right how far are those scimitars from my ships?

He said about 40k.

I asked him ever thought what a scimitar with 4 reps on a mackinaw would do for you when the suicide gankers come?

He said no.

I said that's why I am alive and your speaking to me from a pod sitting next to a wreck.

He bought a scimitar about 5 min later.

To all you miners out there put a scimitar with all its reps on your mackinaw and your peace of mind will be yours once again in the belts.
FastJack316
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-12-03 07:26:58 UTC
What system did this happen in? Big smile
Joshua Aivoras
Tech IV Industries
#3 - 2011-12-03 08:29:02 UTC
Then they'll just gank the Scimitar ....

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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-12-03 08:43:59 UTC
Joshua Aivoras wrote:
Then they'll just gank the Scimitar ....


Shhhhh...
Bloody Wench
#5 - 2011-12-03 12:57:33 UTC
I saw the topic of your post, and my immediate thought was "don't undock them".

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GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6 - 2011-12-03 13:56:46 UTC
i love people who think reps save them

killing them is so satisfying because i can just see them screaming at their computer "how! HOW!"

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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#7 - 2011-12-03 15:00:42 UTC
I'm still not seing oxytopes anywhere close to 2300, W...

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Ameron Phinard
#8 - 2011-12-03 16:24:58 UTC
Joshua Aivoras wrote:
Then they'll just gank the Scimitar ....


Or just alpha the Mackinaw.
Sir Patrick Moore
Doomheim
#9 - 2011-12-03 17:14:17 UTC
Ameron Phinard wrote:
Joshua Aivoras wrote:
Then they'll just gank the Scimitar ....


Or just alpha the Mackinaw.


I like the cut of your jib

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SpaceSquirrels
#10 - 2011-12-03 17:54:19 UTC
I figured the best way was to put a few extenders for rigs or in mids and then fit all passive resists. Hopefully enough to survive only volley of alpha before the next reloads and concord shows up...or the dps can't burn you down in time.

Also you could have an alt shoot at you in a rookie ship thus bringing concord to your belt already... But having reps only prevents DPS from burning you down... And then you'll need to local tank that logi.
Vaaca
Crown Enterprises
#11 - 2011-12-03 19:04:25 UTC
Sir Patrick Moore wrote:
Ameron Phinard wrote:
Joshua Aivoras wrote:
Then they'll just gank the Scimitar ....


Or just alpha the Mackinaw.


I like the cut of your jib


I like the cut of his hair.
Sir Patrick Moore
Doomheim
#12 - 2011-12-04 00:48:47 UTC
SpaceSquirrels wrote:
I figured the best way was to put a few extenders for rigs or in mids and then fit all passive resists. Hopefully enough to survive only volley of alpha before the next reloads and concord shows up...or the dps can't burn you down in time.

Also you could have an alt shoot at you in a rookie ship thus bringing concord to your belt already... But having reps only prevents DPS from burning you down... And then you'll need to local tank that logi.



Problem there is that if there is a certain player who is being all RAAA RAAA YOU CAN'T ALPHA ME , all that happens is that next time two ships show up to blow them up ~just because we can~

That's why out of all the people playing this game, we're having the most fun doing so....

Sir Patrick Moore CBE, FRS, FRAS Hon. Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society
Vigdis Thorisdottir
Doomheim
#13 - 2011-12-04 01:21:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Vigdis Thorisdottir
How about: "Don't go afk, and fit a DC and some passive shield mods"

Seriously, scimitars to rep a hulk? What a waste of an account.
SpaceSquirrels
#14 - 2011-12-04 01:36:53 UTC  |  Edited by: SpaceSquirrels
Sir Patrick Moore wrote:
SpaceSquirrels wrote:
I figured the best way was to put a few extenders for rigs or in mids and then fit all passive resists. Hopefully enough to survive only volley of alpha before the next reloads and concord shows up...or the dps can't burn you down in time.

Also you could have an alt shoot at you in a rookie ship thus bringing concord to your belt already... But having reps only prevents DPS from burning you down... And then you'll need to local tank that logi.



Problem there is that if there is a certain player who is being all RAAA RAAA YOU CAN'T ALPHA ME , all that happens is that next time two ships show up to blow them up ~just because we can~

That's why out of all the people playing this game, we're having the most fun doing so....


True enough but that goes for everything. at which point if someone did just attempt to gank you...move cause their prolly butt hurt now.

Also i'd take more pleasure in knowing your first attempt sucked...maybe your second attempt sucked. And by now you've might have lost nearly as much as I have value wise. So i've already gotten my lulz.
Brock Nelson
#15 - 2011-12-04 02:21:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Brock Nelson
http://troll.me/images/futurama-fry/not-sure-if-trolling-or-just-really-stupid.jpg.pagespeed.ce.vtao2khAIC.jpg

Edit: For those who find hope in OP's message, reppers will not save you.

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Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#16 - 2011-12-04 03:26:12 UTC
Vigdis Thorisdottir wrote:
How about: "Don't go afk, and fit a DC and some passive shield mods"

Seriously, scimitars to rep a hulk? What a waste of an account.


Vulture for higher resists (and more EHP against an alpha gank) is far more effective.