Ships & Modules

Hey guys, I was looking over the bonuses, and I'm wondering which ship is better as a sniper.
Both ships give a 5% damage bonus, but the difference is, Naga has 10% to optimal range, whereas the Talos has 7.5% to tracking. As far as I'm aware, both of these bonuses help with a sniper?
After looking on EFT, both ships were giving very nice dps, and the ranges were not far off from each other,the naga shooting at around 250km and the Talos getting just short of 200 km (this was with T2 spike) while this seems like quite a difference, the targeting range was reaching around 150 km (might need to recheck that number, but let's just go with it) Just for reference, this was all with lvl 5 skills on EFT

Naga.

Tracking (the rotation speed of you turrets when they try to follow the target) is more important in close range, where transversal speeds are high. If you are 5000m from the target and it moves 1000m to the left, you turrets need to rotate more than they had if the target moved as much, but was 200km away.

So, tracking bonus doesn't really help snipers much, it helps close range brawlers.

Always bring scripts. They cost next to nothing, use no cargo space and they increase your versatility. Increased tracking can/will increase applied dps so if you don't need the range you'd be silly to not switch to tracking script.

This - and always bring some Javelin rounds for the exact same reason.

I've surprised a few people by switching to Javelin and 3xtracking scripts at 80km in a Naga. The result is very formidable tracking for a long range large turret.

-Ed

Go with the naga, and give up on this whole "snipe at 250km" idea. The real point is to snipe at 100km - out of drake HM range, not so far out that they can warp to you. Here, the naga can still use antimatter, while the talos is stuck using uranium or something else. And at these ranges, the naga does much better.

-Arazel

At those ranges most people would swap to T2 range ammo, downside is that if you even have a slight amount of transversal on that enyo as you approach him, even with your MWD burning, he'll miss you most of the time. Would he have been able to still use T1 ammo, even Iron, things would have looked a lot worse for you.

So, count yourself lucky you ran into someone who didn't bring Iron ammo because "he has spike so he doesn't need it", even with T1 ammo the applied dps would be lowish but it would have hurt an Enyo just fine.

I would have to say the Naga because it has more mid slots for tracking computers and sensor boosters, talos is really better up close rather than at range

The range bonus is also quite helpful for sniping

+1 for the Naga

Neither, sniping is useless. Furthers you should be is 70-100km and this is considered "medium-long" range these days with all the tier 3's flying around.

249km effective range dmg projection, natural shield tank/recharge excellent for this purpose, natural range bonus aloud you to swap TE for MFS (more dmg)

Naga.

Edit: sry forgot blasters but since you'll miserably die with both at point blank range anyway at least pick the one that does some dmg, so for blasters pick Talos, for snipe Naga