EVE General Discussion

I gave a way the first blueprint of a Vigilant (my first "AWW MY GAWD I WANT THIS"-ship) Blueprint to some guy to reimburse him and show good will after there was big drama about some overpriced module which he bought on an alt, which ISK however i allready spend.

Well doesn't matter, I am building machariels now.

I sure had a few dream ships over the course of the years. I have them all now, most of them I have not even used once because they are very niche and pretty useless for most things.

We were running alpha fleets of arty Mach's, and they were the sex. Not only possibly the best looking ship in the game, but that alpha -- enemy prime is like 'oh, they are locking me...aaaaand I'm dead..'. Sexy. Get a bunch of those in a gang with a web-Loki and you can do some serious headshots.

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Check out the name of mine. They totally look like it amiright? :)

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I remember when I first started playing EVE, my dream was to fly an Apocalypse battleship. Then finally I got it, then I saved up for a Navy Apoc which I got after quite a while, then at last and currently I fly a Paladin.

Now I set my dreams to one day fly the Chimera which is an absolutely gorgeous ship.

Try using a Loki.. less than 2 seconds firing rate.. you tend to go through like 4k rounds on a regular L4 missions

Last night while running a mission I decided to get all cinematic with my mach like I used to do. I pressed C to turn on my camera view, launched drones and set the focus on a drone. I usually set orbit on a drone so that the mach is pulled towards the NPCs while im shooting (even with the mach's fall off bonus, approaching far off npcs helps, closer is better).

It was a wild ride, watching my beautiful pirate ship twist and turn to follow the drones, engines flaring, explosions casting weird shadows across her hull. Though i've done that mission a million times, it's was just plain fun to watch the spectacle of it all.

I think they look kind of like angry waffle fries, myself.

I love the Mach, it makes a awesome turret boat and drone boat at the same time, plus the looks...sweet !

This is the turret / drone boat setup (im not a min / max guy but i like what this setup can do):

7 @ 800mm auto IIs (faction ammo or T2 as per situation)
1 @ drone link aug.

1 @ tracking comp. w/ tracking script
2 @ resist amps (per mission need)
1 @ shield booster
1 @ afterburner

3 @ drone dmg amps
1 @ power relay
3 @ gyros

1 @ Ambit II
1 @ Metastasis II
1 @ screen reinforcer I (explosive, since i run missions in angel space, explosive benefits me most).

5 lights, 4 heavies (yes i know sentries do more effective dps but i like heavies anyways).

I have maxed shield skills but not maxed on the Mach, core ship skills, propulsion, turrets or drones.

Implants support large proj. turrets (plus others when no turret support was available for the slot).

EVE est. dmg = 1417.2 (this is likely higher than EFT but like i said i dont min / max so this is the only number i have available).

In L4 situations the damage application is good and you can tank a long time. The afterburner boosts both gate to gate speed as well as closing speed so i dont consider it optional. As a turret and amp boat you should be able to make great use of your capacitor once you're used to the build characteristics.

Oh, you'll figure this out anyways but just to give you the heads up, when using your heavies be cognizant to pick targets near where your drones already are and guide your drones carefully across the battlefield to minimize the time they are not shooting.

Cheers,

Maldiro

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Who tried to spin the image when you clicked it?

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Beautiful ship. They all are, for that matter. It's why I play. Eve is the most beautiful game being played right now. It is a feat of software engineering that is unmatched. This complex beautiful game can be played on off the shelf equipment.

Granted a lot of us are running machines that are a bit more than 'off-the-shelf', but still. WOW!