Intergalactic Summit

Today I found myself wondering about this. As I was analyzing the newest advancements in spaceship technology I had missed while taking some well-deserved planetside holidays, I realized that even though I tend to choose the most appropiate equipment and ship for each task, I have certain preferences I like to keep whenever possible. It might sound silly for this to come as such a big revelation, but given we capsuleers are able to dominate multiple areas of expertise simultaneously and therefore become enormously versatile, we still develop preferences and tend to have our own favourite combat doctrines, which might or might not be the ones favoured by our empire of origin.

In my case, it's drones, thick armor and a not particularly fast ship. I find myself very comfortable commandeering several flights of drones, overseeing their actions and status, while I sit on a tough ship capable of taking much punishment. You could think being Minmatar brings some kind of intrinsic knack for speed, but high-speed manouvering is not exactly my thing. I prefer to be a tough nut to crack whose robotic pets can reach anything, not matter how far away or small. As a result, I have a thing for Gallente and Amarr drone ships, and I've had much success with the Dominix and the Prophecy; right now my goal is to learn about carrier operation and commandeer actual fighters, and I'm highly intrigued about SoE and Guristas doctrines. About other weapon systems, I find myself most comfortable with railguns, artillery and missiles, but only as secondary firepower.

Now I'm curious to know, my fellow capsuleers, what are your preferences when it comes to combat, if you have any? Are they in accordance with your empire of origin, or have you developed your own style?

Well, I am Gallente, and I do use drones quite a bit, but I fit more like a Caldari. Even my drones are Caldari models.
I never really got into hybrids, there was a time that I used lasers because of the low ammo consumption rate.
Since I'm pretty much a pacifist these days, I tend to have my own style.

I fly Electronic Warfare platforms almost exclusively. I am not a front line brawler. The Falcon, and the predecessor the Blackbird are my faviorate ships. It takes quite a bit of skill, as I am almost always the first to be targeted by the enemy. But I love the feeling of having a successful run.

Kiting drone boats if I have my say. I love the Algose, both it's look and functionality. The Dragoon is a good boat too, I'm currently playing with fits on that one. Those aside I tend to fly frigates of Gallente or Amarrian design such as the comet or slicer. If the fleet allows it, I will forgo the role of tackle and fly a Nano kite Tristan. I really want to try out a battleship fleet though, as it's something that I trained for while I was in scope works, but I never got to do it.

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(I swear I die a little bit each time someone calls me a Blood Raider)

Beyond a general preference (personally) to shields over armor, no specific preferred doctrine. All combat requires adaptation.

Hull Tank Erebuses.

Spamming blobs of cheap cormorants and dunking on expensive ships 5x their size and 20x their cost, at 100km, is oddly satisfying to me. Even if they get in range and take out half our fleet, chances are we still lost less than 100m and destroyed much more than that.

I also know from being on the other end of that equation that this is a very frustrating tactic to deal with, and annoying your opponent causes them to make rash decisions.

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