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(request) stories of booster use

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symon sad
Doomheim
#1 - 2015-05-27 09:21:01 UTC  |  Edited by: symon sad
Hi
so im after some stories of booster use

ideally the stories (are real) and involve-
-transporting boosters
-manufacturing process
-were they turned the tides for a win or a loss
-were the wrong boosters were used
-were the neg effects caused a rage logout

do boosters usually get used prior to leaving station or mid flight?
whats the best boosters and why?
whats the worst boosters and why?
beakerax
Pator Tech School
#2 - 2015-05-27 09:25:29 UTC
Soldarius
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#3 - 2015-05-27 14:50:22 UTC
short story

Just the other day I found I needed to transfer some boosters from one character to another on the same account. Can't contract boosters. And can't trade toon-toon because can't login on two caharacters on the same acct. So I decided to use a secure can.

No skills on the character with the boosters. Buy book. Train for 18 minutes. Buy can. Need frigate to anchor can. So I buy a frigate.

.....

Can't anchor in jita.

... seriously this is a pain.

Have to go 5 jumps to find a system 0.7 or lower so I can anchor the can. I do this, then realize I could have just used a jet can.

This is why we can't have nice things.

http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY

symon sad
Doomheim
#4 - 2015-05-28 05:31:58 UTC
beakerax wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub_a2t0ZfTs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKMK3XGO27k
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#5 - 2015-05-28 05:52:47 UTC
I went to WH space to deliver torpedoes and brought some crash booster with me. I find a WH relatively quick and it has a chain that doesn't really have any activity, but has an exit on the other side of space, sure I'll go there. Jump through a gate, drop probes, cloak up and start scanning. No WH in system, screw it lets jump back into the WH go to some spot in the chain and log off, hope for better prey the next time I play. Decloak and MWD to the gate and OH SHOOT POLICE!!! I has boosters and they caught me

TBH... that is pretty much what happens every time I buy boosters. I really suck at using them.

There was the time I was in Null and used an exile (probably too early) in a fight, and then continued on my roam and didn't see anyone for over an hour, and my booster ran out

@ChainsawPlankto on twitter

Trajan Unknown
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2015-05-28 06:05:44 UTC
I hauled a lot of boosters through high-sec on my alt and never had any "police problems".
You have to warp off quick and I heard they sometimes catch you on the outgate but I never had this happen to me.

The can´t contract them thingy is a pita for sure and I don´t get it at all but well, it is how it is and there are work arounds.

For using booster the first thing that pops into mind is: Always check charcater sheet for the effects/side effect because the Exile Booster is bugged. It will show you the -15% velocity bonus every time but it is simply a bug. Looking at your char sheet will show you the real deal.
For first hand booster footage I´d recommend SardCaids youtube channel or twitch. He is flying BCs almost exclusive and he is using boosters a lot.
My personal experiences with them are a bit limited but the X-Instinct ones safed my ceptor from several Oracle volleys and the Blue Pill won me several fights because the buffed my shield boosters to an extend were I could tank it. On the other side I lost a lot of AFs because I had the wrong "stats" in my head / didn´t popped a Pill and didn´t realise it. Might have lost anyway but well.
Whenever I don´t like the side effects I simply self-destruct and pop another pill. Using them short before combat or during combat is something I never did but I know some of the better solo players do it sometimes.

Since I don´t produce them I have no idea about that part I just heard it can be a pain in the ass if you don´t know what you´re doing so basicly it´s like most other things in EvE. :D

symon sad
Doomheim
#7 - 2015-05-28 06:33:32 UTC
thank you for your replies exactly what im after, much appreciated

ill check out -SardCaids youtube channel or twitch.- thanksfor recommending

please keep sharing im sure there are plenty more experiences with boosters
Tuttomenui II
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2015-05-28 13:00:19 UTC
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Shederov Blood
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
#9 - 2015-05-28 13:35:05 UTC
I found half a dozen boosters in a wreck.
Grabbed them and ran for the nearest station.
Sold them for 20mil each. The end.

Who put the goat in there?

Foxstar Damaskeenus
why did i join this corp
Not Purple Shoot It.
#10 - 2015-05-29 11:38:58 UTC
I have always been in love with Standard Exile, I suppose this was because it was the first drug I ever took (in Eve). X-instinct has become a close second.

I didn't have much interest in interceptors until another factional warfare pilot, I think it was Varinox, linked me his light missile fit. I flew the Malediction around and liked it so I trained interceptors V and light missiles V. Something happened that I think only 20% of Eve players knew about, it was a big secret. If you were using links and popped an X-instinct while piloting a Malediction with the MWD on you had a ridiculously low signature radius. Lower than a standard frigate and you could orbit things at 6K+.

That coupled with the fact that you could put a sensor booster in the mid and an ancillary armor repper in the lows meant you could grab anything fast and rep a little bit, providing that you actually took damage, which YOU DIDN'T EVER!

This ship was freaking awesome, you could kill anything battle cruiser or smaller in factional warfare space; this was Eve easy mode. I got a few kills after my month or so of training for it and made plans to go hardcore, buy a halo set and was dreaming of how many kills I was going to get with it. It was eve paradise for a few days.

After a few days light missiles were nerfed to Hek and the light missile bonus was removed from the Malediction. THE END

The moral of the story is: CCP hates missiles and combat boosters are awesome!

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