EVE General Discussion

speed tanking is a thing

Speed tanking is great, if you can turn. Usually not so much with a oversized prop. And as for getting out, wouldn't that be solved with increasing the afterburner velocity bonus? Perhaps its a time to make the afterburner for the proper size, better?

usually makes things easier with a nanofibre fitted

it is what it is, some love it (i do) diferant style of flying.
sure that would "fix it" but going with an oversize ab has its ups and downs,
its one of those things you have to make a lot of compromise for and rightly so in my mind so i dont think it needs fixing per-say.
it only becomes problematic when we figure out a ship that allows for it without enough compromises i.e. pre-nerf confessor.

iv had a ham legion for like 3 years with a 100mn ab on it, still going.

Amen - bring on the 500% speed bonus afterburners and throw away the MWD forever

No no no, we don't need any of that >,>

Using an oversized AB has a number of benefits and a number of negatives. Only certain ships can use them, ones with AB bonuses like the Phantasm and Tengu, and others with High native velocities. Like the Svip and Orthrus. Generally however you want to be linked and have at least mid grade snakes in order to get up to a fair speed. Ships that don't use a whole lot of capacitor are good to use as well. Missiles are great because they don't care about how fast you are going like turrets will.


The positives are, you are very hard to lock down, even with webs the mass that the AB adds to your ship will allow to drift out of most web ranges, being an AB you are not affected by scrams. You have a high velocity without having the sig bloom from a MWD, so once your up to speed your ability to stay on the field will be far more favorable. Also a lot of people will not know how to handle oversized AB ships. So they may have troubles locking you down even if they have the answer in their fleet comp.


Negatives are that the oversized AB will take a lot of fitting space, if you do have to turn you'll turn like ******* aircraft carrier. So try not to do that. (At least try not to make a sharp turn, turn like an Aircraft carrier but do so at 2900m/s) You also eat up a ton of capacitor so you also need to have enough fitting to supply it. Neuts will absolutely ruin your day because of this more so then webs will. You also sling shot easily. So you need to be very careful and keep an eye on what your opponent is doing. You'll also basically need to have nanofibers to help you out, and you can't field a buffer armor ship and be oversized AB so your limited to a local tank, or a buffer shield fit.


I personally love oversized AB fits. They are a blast to fly.

Definitely only a PvP thing.

PvE is broken, the rats all cheat and have infinite range/etc but don't use prop mods in general - so if you speed tank at all there is no point cramming on more than a regular AB for PvE. Additionally you *need* more sustained tank (due to the unique mechanics of npc weaponry/ewar), so it would rarely fit onto the ship in any case.

Well, I've tried it (Speed tanking) and I have to say I can't figure it out.

I have an Atron that can hit over 3,000 m/s with a standard Frig Sig and the Serpentis Battlecruisers can still tag me even at 2500 meters. What's hilarious is my 75mm Gatling II rails can't hit him regularly at that speed and range...

So, either these are super ships, I'm doing it wrong (likely the case), or Speed tanking is overrated.