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Rubicon - Is Drone BS / Carrier ratting dead?
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The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#101 - 2013-11-21 18:14:13 UTC
Ratting with fighters in ring sanctums and f-hubs is 40+ ticks in a Thanatos, though you need to manually path the fighters to reach good ticks. The trick is in keeping the fighter cluster from MWDing around, because that makes them miss stuff on jousting maneuver. To do it you kill rats that clump up.

Any carriers do reach 40+ ticks with sentries though, semi afk, much easier. But worse than a Dominix is doing it wrong.
MeBiatch
GRR GOONS
#102 - 2013-11-21 18:19:55 UTC
Holgrak Blacksmith wrote:
I have little experience with carriers and ratting, so if someone could inform me of my misunderstanding then thanks in advance.

First, won't interceptors still have to scan ratters down and won't that take enough time for ratters to warp out?

Also, if a carrier is using fighters and is aligned, can't it instawarp to station when the neut enters local?


Fighters used to be a thing before drone damage mods and tech ii sentries.

Now the dps from a ratting carrier makes the damage bonus on the thanny useless. ..

Really wish they boosted fighters speed and reduced their radius so bombs would do less damage.

That and fighters need a damage boost.

I miss my ratting fighter thanny. Now I just use a ratting chimera with sentries and damage mods

There are no stupid Questions... just stupid people... CCP Goliath wrote:

Ugh ti-di pooping makes me sad.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#103 - 2013-11-21 18:24:35 UTC
Andrea Keuvo wrote:
An interceptor pilot worth a sh*t will never be in range of a large neut much less a medium one

Good. Then I can MJD.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
MeBiatch
GRR GOONS
#104 - 2013-11-21 18:31:50 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Andrea Keuvo wrote:
An interceptor pilot worth a sh*t will never be in range of a large neut much less a medium one

Good. Then I can MJD.


Indeed

Curious how fast an inty can travel 100km witg proper rigs/implants and heat on.

If you mjd and are not aligned properly to a pos or ss there might be a chance for the inty to catch up.

There are no stupid Questions... just stupid people... CCP Goliath wrote:

Ugh ti-di pooping makes me sad.
The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#105 - 2013-11-21 18:51:54 UTC
Intercepting the MJD is really tough if MJD is done right. The reason for this is server tick mechanic when spamming warp after MJD, even if you do everything right as inty there is a good chance the warp initiates before point lands.
SFM Hobb3s
Perkone
Caldari State
#106 - 2013-11-21 19:34:37 UTC
Tough but certainly possible. Brought down a nice corpus-x fit hyperion just the other day doing this. He managed to mjd at least once if not twice.
And the nice thing was, our ceptors only had disruptors, and yet we still had lots of time for a couple of us to go refit to bombers and come back to break his tank.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#107 - 2013-11-21 20:14:34 UTC
Of course, if you're ratting with a mobile depot (and if you're in a bastion marauder, there's no reason not to), you can just dump all your faction mods in there. You'll still lose your ship, but you can come back later for your stuff.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#108 - 2013-11-22 04:31:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Benny Ohu
Ranger 1 wrote:
Benny Ohu wrote:
Ranger 1 wrote:
And whoever was saying "If you have 2 people ratting you only make half as much." ... seriously? Big smile

read it again, it's not about two people ratting

Quote:
Needing two people to rat means you're making half as much money.


Sorry, I don't know how else to interpret that.

Contextually.
Jint Hikaru wrote:
Fit a 'Firend' or 'FleetMate' when ratting in nulsec.


The guy says to bring a ship to protect the ratting ship. So there's two pilots, one of which is ratting. Don't tell me you think they're making all the money they could have been making.