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3 box anomalies with carrier
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Mitchell Fairfax
Order Your Own Alliance
#1 - 2014-06-13 16:37:07 UTC
consider this setup

1st char - tengu
2nd char - ishtar
3rd char - wannabe carrier

for now I use char 1 and 2, assist sentries to tengu, blast away.

I want to know if it will be possible to sentry assist tengu from ishtar AND assign fighters from carrier at the same time to the tengu. the carrier won't be on grid.

other variables not important. this is strictly a gameplay mechanics question
iu'ra
Criterion.
Minmatar Fleet Alliance
#2 - 2014-06-13 16:47:25 UTC
Yes it is possible to assist and assign. Assisting only has the drones shoot what you are shooting while assigning replaced the drones of the ship or if it does not have drones then it will assume control of the fighters
Mitchell Fairfax
Order Your Own Alliance
#3 - 2014-06-13 17:33:38 UTC
ty for response
UAB
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-06-13 17:55:30 UTC
You will able to asign only 5 fighters
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#5 - 2014-06-13 19:24:25 UTC
Mitchell Fairfax wrote:
consider this setup

1st char - tengu
2nd char - ishtar
3rd char - wannabe carrier

for now I use char 1 and 2, assist sentries to tengu, blast away.

I want to know if it will be possible to sentry assist tengu from ishtar AND assign fighters from carrier at the same time to the tengu. the carrier won't be on grid.

other variables not important. this is strictly a gameplay mechanics question


To answer you question, yes, you can assist sentries from the ishar and assign fighters to the tengu too. I've done the same thing. However off grid assigned fighters SUCK as they get no bonuses from the carrier when assigned to you. On Grid carrier (aligned and ready to warp) is much much much better in the kind of set up you have.

With carriers able , however, to use drone mods to improve fighterss you simply don't need the sub capital ships anymore (more so if that carrier is a Thanatos lol). Fighters are ridiculous in anoms now (not pre nerf Titan/super carrier ridiculous , but close enough) , even against frigs because of omni links and enhancers and drone nav computers.

I was doing the sub cap + carrier thing in angel anomalies, then I decided last week after the patch to try it without the sub cap (and not just any sub cap, but a machariel). Dualboxing is easy with a mach and a drone ship, but using one ship is easier still. Turns out the mach was in some way slowing me down, with the mach + thanny using sentries I was making 40 mil every 20 minutes, with the thanny alone now using fighters I was doing 46-50+ mil per 20 min tick.....
Mitchell Fairfax
Order Your Own Alliance
#6 - 2014-06-14 00:10:12 UTC
huh? didn't know that fighters don't get bonuses if carrier was off grid
GordonO
BURN EDEN
#7 - 2014-06-15 23:17:58 UTC
Don't use fighters, they take too long to travel between targets. Just use a ham tengu with 2 x domi or ishtar, assign drones and blap away. With 4 DDA's in a domi with 2 omni's and 2 dlu's you can get decent range so you don't even have to move them. Put a TP and web on the tengu and things will just disappear. Ham tengu gets you 1k dps and 800 from each domi.
Put some heavy neuts and smart bombs on the domi for defence, works like a charm and tacklers don't even know what happened to them.

... What next ??
Icylce
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-06-16 05:58:56 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
Mitchell Fairfax wrote:
consider this setup

1st char - tengu
2nd char - ishtar
3rd char - wannabe carrier

for now I use char 1 and 2, assist sentries to tengu, blast away.

I want to know if it will be possible to sentry assist tengu from ishtar AND assign fighters from carrier at the same time to the tengu. the carrier won't be on grid.

other variables not important. this is strictly a gameplay mechanics question


To answer you question, yes, you can assist sentries from the ishar and assign fighters to the tengu too. I've done the same thing. However off grid assigned fighters SUCK as they get no bonuses from the carrier when assigned to you. On Grid carrier (aligned and ready to warp) is much much much better in the kind of set up you have.

With carriers able , however, to use drone mods to improve fighterss you simply don't need the sub capital ships anymore (more so if that carrier is a Thanatos lol). Fighters are ridiculous in anoms now (not pre nerf Titan/super carrier ridiculous , but close enough) , even against frigs because of omni links and enhancers and drone nav computers.

I was doing the sub cap + carrier thing in angel anomalies, then I decided last week after the patch to try it without the sub cap (and not just any sub cap, but a machariel). Dualboxing is easy with a mach and a drone ship, but using one ship is easier still. Turns out the mach was in some way slowing me down, with the mach + thanny using sentries I was making 40 mil every 20 minutes, with the thanny alone now using fighters I was doing 46-50+ mil per 20 min tick.....


Hmm, I tried anom with fighters over weekend but they couldnt kill frigs. Webbed painted and one omni. Maybe I should use more omnis, but with templars idk if it will help much.