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Pros and cons of each covops frig
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Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#21 - 2013-06-21 14:19:45 UTC
Kosomot wrote:
Derath Ellecon wrote:
[quote=Dato Koppla]Helios's one drone isn't as effective as a highslot weapon


The Helios is my personal choice for Exploration.

The drone compensate for lack of highs (assuming skills of course), with my drone skills, a hobo 2 is nice in the slot.

I must say that if i was using an exploration ship for exploring then yeah (i fly tengu fitted for scanning, due to my love of combat sites).

but if i decide to go on a relic / data exploration question...helios wins for me.




Indeed Tengu can run these combat sites pretty well too while exploration fitted but the nastier is still Loki.

An exploration Loki can easily fit an XL-ASB, Probe Launcher, Cov Ops Cloak largest tier autos, Web disruptor or scram, shield modules dmg modules and dish a well over 400dps which is enough coupled to its massive tank to gank almost every other exploration T3 unless specifically fitted counter (which never happens or simply by chance)

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Clara Xavier
Space Gremlins
#22 - 2013-06-28 14:34:20 UTC
Has there been any discussion in scaling the CPU requirements for a probe launcher against the Covert Ops skill or just give the hulls a -99% role bonus?

I find that anytime you attempt to use an Expanded Probe Launcher even on a Covert Ops ship you basically sacrifice even trying to fill your other slots without using your lows for Co-Processors. While that will work it kind of defeats the purpose. One of the major uses of a Covert Ops ship would be probing. You should be able to fit the ship to take full advantage of that feature without sacrificing all the other slots made available to you. Take a look at how the T3 works when configured as a covert ops cloak + scanning boat. It has the bonuses I'm describing.

Summary: Make the covert ops ships sensible to fit for their purpose.

Example:

Loki Offensive - Covert Reconfiguration
Role Bonus: 100% reduction in Cloaking Device CPU use

Loki Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer
Subsystem Skill Bonus: 10% scan strength, 20% bonus to range and velocity of tractor beams
Role Bonus: -99% reduced CPU need for Scan Probe Launchers, +10 Virus Strenght to Relic and Data Analyzers
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