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Gila Vs other Cruiser Sized ships
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Spurty
#21 - 2014-08-05 16:13:04 UTC
I'm still waiting for the Ammo buff that forces us all to reload ammo in drones after 10 shots.

There are good ships,

And wood ships,

And ships that sail the sea

But the best ships are Spaceships

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Maeltstome
Ten Thousand Days
#22 - 2014-08-05 17:50:19 UTC
Tippia wrote:
If you're using free-roaming drones rather than sentries, a very common source for lost kill speed is good old travel time. Even disregarding the damage output difference, the Gila in your example will nuke everything faster because it uses medium drones, not heavy ones. Those medium drones will also hit better since they're tuned for smaller targets than the heavies.


Works in theory.

I rat using an Ishtar with heavy drones - all it takes it 1 frigate to mess up the tracking on the sentries for all the time saved between travelling to be compeltely made void. This is compounded by the lower DPS of sentries - meaning when you have 3-5 BS all clumped up, the heavy drones travel time is practically 0 (4km/s berserkers huehuehue) meaning they kill rats faster and the rats have less time to rep.

It's an exponential function: Higher DPS = shorter fights = less reps = less EHP to chew through. 10% increased DPS <> 10% faster kills, it's actually much higher.
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