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Drone baiting - does it work?
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Doddy
Excidium.
#21 - 2012-09-18 08:26:59 UTC
Mars Theran wrote:
[quote=Yokai Mitsuhide]

I know, it can get a pretty decent buffer, but I was trying to use the bonuses and the armor buffer wouldn't have survived 2 minutes anyway. Either way, it is really kind of pathetic and reminds me of my last turn in a Rokh, which isn't any better really.
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Nice troll tbh. rokh and hype being the most ridiculously overtanked bs in game.
Doddy
Excidium.
#22 - 2012-09-18 08:35:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Doddy
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Tul Breetai wrote:
It's incredible how easily players will correct someone with incorrect statements of their own.


It does not help the fact that EvE has the most intricate PvP flagging system ever conceived.
Its code probably looks like to an Italian law articles.


Its not intricate at all .....

Player A is viable target I can shoot him.
Player B assists (i.e. reps) Player A I can shoot him (doesn't matter what corp or fleet etc he is in).
I shoot Player A or Player B they can shoot back (them and only them).

Viable target = someone who has stolen from my corp in the last 15 minutes, is at war with my corp, or someone I have active killrights on (actual killrights not the fagging people sometimes call killrights).

Aggro timer always lasts 15 minutes from last action

Italian law is just a bit more complex than that.
Doddy
Excidium.
#23 - 2012-09-18 08:44:18 UTC
Ditra Vorthran wrote:
Of course, someone can use them against you.

You're flying around with drones on aggressive. Cheap ship targets you and attacks. You're drones, being set on aggressive, attack back. You are now aggro to him and, if I recall correctly, anyone in his corporation. He gets CONCORDED, but his buddy drops in on you and proceeds to turn you into space dust.


Where do people come up with this nonsense? Is it all just word of mouth or does everyone just have the same overactive imagination? The starter corps are terrible for this sort of thing, new players start the game and are straight from the start given false information by the "npc corp till I die" types who have never actually played the game.
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#24 - 2012-09-18 11:33:50 UTC
Mars Theran wrote:
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I Pyfa'd the stupid thing after I bought the materials and threw it into manufacturing and realized I'd made a mistake. None of the Gallente Battleships are particularly good, but the Hyperion is particularly bad, and doesn't fit armor tank worth ****, despite its bonuses.


I agree that the Hype is quite bad in it's current state, it's simply missing one low slot and armor tanking is terribly unbalanced compared to shields. Hype doesn't even work that well with drugs and links :/

But there isn't anything wrong with the other two. Megathron is a very solid brawler, and Domi dominates with drone dmg amps. Brawling, neuting, POS bashing, PVE, it's sporting very high dps numbers combined with nice tank and utility.

Also note that you were popped by a Vindi, which is essentially a Gallente ship Blink

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highonpop
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#25 - 2012-09-18 13:25:30 UTC
Ranger 1 wrote:
SmilingVagrant wrote:
Paul Oliver wrote:
Based on limited experience it seems that drones set to aggressive only attack if the enemy target fires on you, could be wrong though, drone behavior seems kind of unreliable sometimes.


This is exactly how drones work.


Or if you fire/activate modules on someone else.


that's a different option than aggressive/passive

FC, what do?
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