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I know I'm asking a lot: FOF Snowballs, pls?
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#1 - 2012-12-17 03:47:15 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
So - I've got this crude bundle of durlauminum and tritanium spars with an engine strapped to it called a Vigil. And I've bunged a couple Festival Launchers and an MWD into it somehow. And some Nanofibre Internals, too, 'cause it wasn't fragile enough.

And I like to take this space-going garbage-heap screaming* through Jita 4-4 undock, spewing snowballs at anything that happens to get in the way.

The problem I have is this: I'm 4x faster than my snowballs.** I fire them off, and they immediately drop behind me. I can't easily shift targets if I'm watching for my snowball's effects, and if I *am* switching targets, I'm missing the fun.

Potential solution: FoF Snowballs - These would allow me to pick a central victim on which to center my cameras as I shriek* on through, spewing snowballs as I go. This way, I could see the fun and not have to worry about navigation and targetting issues quite so much.




* The ship screams. I'm the one shrieking. It really is a dangerous heaping pile of scrap-n-crap.
**4121 m/sec

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Rain6637
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-12-17 04:19:19 UTC
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-12-17 06:33:57 UTC
Yeah, I was in a snowball fight outside of Rens station and noticed the snowballs were mostly following the target, taking way too long to hit.

This basically was making the amount of snowballs flying towards the target increase due to the constant firing. Since the target was doing an orbit around me and I was doing an orbit around the target, hardly any of the snowballs were hitting, most of the snowballs were just following.

I ended up turning back and approached the target which made his snowballs hit me. After I passed the target, he then turned around to chase after me which turned him into my snowballs.

After seeing that effect, I started doing some 'tug of war' type flying, orbiting around the target for a bit and then turn in towards the target and fly past. This actually worked rather well since doing the orbit seemed to build up a lot of flying snowballs and the approach / pass seemed to make them all hit about the same time due to the target turning around to follow / orbit me..

Talk about a 'White Christmas' lol.




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Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#4 - 2012-12-17 10:18:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Akirei Scytale
silens vesica wrote:

**4121 m/sec


Psh, my old bookmark-creator Vigil went nearly 10 km/s

Also just fit up a Thorax with a snowball launcher and fly around making lewd jokes, its more fun.
ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#5 - 2012-12-17 10:50:40 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
silens vesica wrote:

**4121 m/sec


Psh, my old bookmark-creator Vigil went nearly 10 km/s

Also just fit up a Thorax with a snowball launcher and fly around making lewd jokes, its more fun.

A Thorax doesn't have any missile hardpoints, and neither does any other ship that uses the Thorax hull

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Darvaleth Sigma
Imperial Security Hegemony
#6 - 2012-12-17 11:03:11 UTC
ACE McFACE wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
silens vesica wrote:

**4121 m/sec


Psh, my old bookmark-creator Vigil went nearly 10 km/s

Also just fit up a Thorax with a snowball launcher and fly around making lewd jokes, its more fun.

A Thorax doesn't have any missile hardpoints, and neither does any other ship that uses the Thorax hull


Ah, clever guy, getting in there with those lewd jokes!

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#7 - 2012-12-17 12:51:12 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
Akirei Scytale wrote:

Also just fit up a Thorax with a snowball launcher and fly around making lewd jokes, its more fun.

I LOL'd.
Lol


I haven't bothered with rigs, or even trying to fit a 10MN device - I'm just using the slap-dash assembly method here, true to the original Minmatar specs.* Thus, I've only got middling fast speeds.



* Wait. Do the Minmatar *use* specifications..?

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