EVE General Discussion

Thrashers allow for high volley or alpha damage. This means that a single shot from artillery (projectile weapon) causes the most damage per shot. Note this does not mean the most DPS as there is a high cool down time between shots. So yes, thrashers tend to be popular gank weapons. One volley could kill a ship before concord intervenes.

That said, a lone thrashed has limited value. It may pop a pod or an underarmored frigate, but not much else. Those thrashed you are may be fast locking hoping to catch suspect pods passing through. However to the average player they are not a threat.

As for code... They tend to operate in lower sec systems where there is a delay to concord response. Due to the delay, DPS is more important so catalysts are the prefered ship.

It's the PLEX police. They are only attracted by plex or injector tanked ships.

There is an especially dedicated CODE pod / corvette / shuttle ganker hanging around in Niarja and nearby systems. He has a number of scout Thrashers at the gates as well as his gank thrashers that come in when he sees a good target, such as someone in a pod auto-piloting.

Also some AG are having fun ganking gankers scouts, which is great to see.

I guess the gankers are out on the town today. I was almost ganked by an insta-lock Tornado with artillery fit on station undock in highsec near Amarr. One shot (glancing blow) and my entire shield, entire armor, and half my hull was gone, but I escaped due to his long reload, and he was destroyed by CONCORD plus some other dude in a Legion who joined in.

I don't care about the gank attempt. I do care about the insta-locking. I have max targeting skills but I have never been able to get anything close to insta-lock, especially using big guns. So I don't know why he gets to insta-lock. I mean literally as soon as I came out of station and started aligning to gate, he hit me. It was less than 1 second lock and hit time.

I've continued to check him on kill mails, and he's still in that system, ganking people. He's had a string of kills plus losses. I didn't bother to do the math to see if he was coming out ahead or not. He wasn't CODE. however.

[Tornado, "Insta-lock" concept]

Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II

Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution Script
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution Script
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution Script
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution Script
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution Script

1400mm Howitzer Artillery II, Quake L
1400mm Howitzer Artillery II, Quake L
1400mm Howitzer Artillery II, Quake L
1400mm Howitzer Artillery II, Quake L
1400mm Howitzer Artillery II, Quake L
1400mm Howitzer Artillery II, Quake L
1400mm Howitzer Artillery II, Quake L
1400mm Howitzer Artillery II, Quake L

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
[Empty Rig slot]
[Empty Rig slot]

Level 5 skills across the board give you theese stats:

Total Cost: 122m
Volley (alpha): 11.790

Lock Times are:

POD: 2,2 s
Interceptor: 1,9 s
Frigate: 1,8 s
Destroyer: 1,3 s
Cruiser: 1,1 s
Battlecruiser: 0,9 s
Battleship: 0,8 s
Carrier: 0,5 s

Just a quick example wiped up in PYFA, im in no way saying people are using this fit or anything like it, just showing you how fast a tornado potentially can lock targets and how much damage one volley can do.

If you also position yourself correct, tracking isnt really an issue with big guns. (straight lines FTW)

Good analysis. Perhaps something like this combined with the "I'll take remote sebos for 500" idea the other guy proposed.

because EVE is a piece of **** joke of a game where risk averse aggressors have all the advantages. They take no risks and pay negligible costs in "suicide ganking" to reap potentially enormous rewards.

Victory favors the bold. Take initiative and you too, can have the advantage.

lol hisec

Stop rolling through the pipeline systems and you wont see any gankers really.