Warfare & Tactics

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Let me know what you find out ;)

2 nados will do a booting t3 easily.

booster alts hardly dock ever, those stay always on space, cloaked and uncloaking only when needed.

only way to gank is when those change system, but when they have covops cloak it makes it bit hard to do, or you can try to probe those when they are uncloaked but that needs usually specialized prober.

It is possible to gank ogb but usually it need something that 90% of players does not have.

you can't take them out easily but it is possible.

usually the OGB will be cloaked at a safespot when his main is not in combat and uncloak only when combat is imminent.

a well-fitted t3 booster will also be as difficult to probe down as possible given game mechanics.

e.g. here is my Loki fitting



if you turn off the MWD, activate the ECCM modules and apply its own boosts (sig size reduction) this fitting has a sensor strength of 113.5 and a signature size of 99.5.

This puts its "probe size" (signature size/sensor strength) nominally at 0.877. To make unprobable setups impossible CCP introduced a hard cap of 1.110 on probe size fairly recently (and anything below that cap is treated as 1.110), so that applies instead.

I'm not a maths & spreadsheet wizard but a signature with a probe size of 1.110 should still be very hard to probe down - before the cap was introduced anything below 1.08 was unprobable (with CovOps V, sisters probes and launcher, perfect skills, hardwiring and a full Virtue set).

Since then Sisters Launchers have been buffed (10% strength bonus instead of 5%) but you would probably still need very good skills and a virtue set to get a warpable hit on an uncloaked boosting t3.

So if you are a fast prober, manage to distract the OGB's main (to prevent him from recloaking the OGB) and have near-perfect skills and implants you can probe down and kill a OGB.
If not, you are better off trying to catch it at a gate (new camera tracking option in dscan makes decloaking easier than it used to be).

but its sooo hard guys. Just so hard to fix it. *waggles fingers* Game mechanics and shiz1

So you'd "only" need the multi-billion alt in a cov-ops to find them .. may be a step in the right direction, but an infinitesimal one

As for the original post: What does it matter? The fact that something can be killed does not automatically make it balanced as it were .. Failcon's, Dramiel's, Drake's etc. .. risk/reward needs to be sync and killability is only a small part of that equation.

Isn't it so already? I don't know where you're fighting, but it usually takes one loss to see if that Rifter webs at 15 km or not.