EVE New Citizens Q&A

In my experience sniping is something a lot of players try and do when they don't have very much experience actually blowing up spaceships. Shooting from the safety of extreme range with powerful guns sounds cool, right?

In most engagements in order to actually get a kill your target must be warp disrupted in order for you to kill them or they will simply warp off and laugh at you and conventional warp disruptors, even expensive faction ones only have ranges between 20-30km and sniping weapons have ranges significantly in excess of that, which means you need another means of warp disruption such as a mobile warp disruption field generator, or another player that will be within warp disruption range of the target, or you have to engage the target in a situation in which warping off will not be an option.

Inexperienced players almost never give that any consideration before they attempt sniping and subsequently fail almost every time.

the first thing is how are we going to define sniping. For a long time I considered it as long range as possible, but now these days with combat scanner probes being as common as they are if you go out past 150km the enemy can warp on top of you. Also at ranges past that you are typically not doing much DPS. There are also different ship classes and they engage at different ranges. A frig sniper might engage at the edge of battleship brawl range. Also just going for range isn't always the best as tracking can be an issue.

I like amarr. a slicer with scorch or beams can hit at pretty good ranges for frigs. The confessor has some very nice fits that hit out to ~70km with beams and auroa. the nomen (omen navy issue) makes for a nice pulse kiter, I think there are a few zealot/legion fits with beams, and the oracle with scorch can hit around 80km

caldari/gallente have a bunch of railgun options, and minmatar with arty. heck you could probably do some rather long range autocannon fits, some fits get very nice falloff bonuses.

BCs and BS with MJDs also interest me but I haven't played around with those much for pvp.

I feel no shame for anything that combines Shahfluffers and sucking.

You do your blog ...
... or let me find out if there's a way that won't completely ruin it for you.


Because, while the blog idea is nice, you seem to be unhappy about it ...
... and that means it's an actually bad idea.

There's other ways.


You don't need to be afraid, you'll find out soon enough.

And really, no one asks you to start writing a blog about things like others ...
... it's really more about having a single place where information is easily accessible.


Anyhow...

From my observations do you love to answer questions. It seems you love going over things again ...
... and maybe even improve the accuracy of your answers over time.

I'd suggest something that fits you ...
... and I think you might be comfortable with:

AskShah.tumblr.com (and yes I really recommend trying tumblr :)

Name speaks for itself. :)



Though what I really want ...
... is ending the rookie help channel ...
... and replacing it with something less abusable. (:


Tomorrow I'll weed through your post history. :)


I'm sorry for hijacking the thread. (:

Yessir!

As others have pointed out- true sniping is fairly well gimped in the current meta. Eve favors mobility and speed right now, and sitting virtually static trying to snipe isn't as viable as it once was. It's been a very long time since I've sat at 100+km in a Naga.

Sniping has evolved more into 'kiting'. The point is the same- shoot at someone that cannot return fire at you. But now you have to account for mobility and tracking.

The Harpy is a good example of a kiter. Shooting at long distance (for it's class) and moving around to maintain that optimal at all times.

It's not "hard coded" it's an artificial limitation that came in a patch an extremely long time ago. Like pre-Trinity long time ago for reasons I don't think anyone remembers anymore. At the time it may well have been implemented as a result of actual technical limitations.

Previously CCP have cited "hurr legacy code" as the reason it has stayed limited to 250km, which as we all know is a non-excuse. That's developer code for "We can't be bothered to dig through old code to fix that right now".

The Navy Apocalypse gets a 7.5% boost to range per BS level. Mega Pulse Laser II with Scorch base range is 67km. One Tracking Computer II with Optimal Range Script range is 79km with two Optimal Range Script 99km.

The Navy Omen get a 10% boost to range per Cruiser level.