Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Apparently this is a dying art.....

Shh.... you were not supposed to tell anyone.

Oh dear,
you sound almost experienced.

Let's try another approach,
if you do not like it, do not despair. Nobody forces you to fly the ship. So feel free, little bird, and fly a different ship.

Jenn genuine question, What do you do when the rats web your single gecko? I have lost three to them the first day, and do not use them on this ship any more, it does not matter if I gain full aggro and paint things, they still get switched to, and altough they are strong it just means a few more seconds of watching them die. Two Drones on the Gila solve it as the second super strong drone rips the webbers apart, but on the rattlesnake, the drones just aren't either strong or fast, and one gecko has no support at all.

I think the Gila works, but the rattlesnake just has not got the gilas drones :(
You clearly must have a solution, would you care to share it?

Hi Jen, no I have not given up, I have just found that two mission specific heavies do the job better with full damage to their weaknesses rather than reduced rainbow damage, the Gecko is good I find for incursions, sleepers (with great care) and PvP (something will hit the resist hole). But after losing three I realised that if they gained aggro (and they did) one drone just would be lost without any way of changing that or recovering the drone.
I have tried since and not lost them, by abandoning the drone and launching the weak lights, killing the webbers, recalling lights, and reconnecting to the gecko unable to reuse in the mission as it is too damaged, but station repairs are cheap the lights need repairing too, ......not an ideal solution, time consuming, and honestly a pain in the bum, but better than losing more. A challange with the small bay.
If you have to give up the extra launcher to fit a repper, well, then there is no reason to fly this ship at all, totally outclassed then by dominix and RNI.

Thanks for your answer though, looks like the solution is as big an issue as the original problem.

Are you blissfully ignorant, or have you found yourself as a victim of forced lobotomy lately? Or perhaps you were dropped on your head as a toddler? Why aren't you flying a T1 frigate for running L4 missions, or trying to do null anomalies in a similar low DPS ship if DPS is an advisory number and thus, irrelevant? Obviously in whichever fantasy world you must have been living, Rapid Launchers of Light and Heavy variety must have been widely adapted weapons systems instead of niche things that no one uses because their reload times and thus, damage type flexibility were nerfed to hell before uh, guess who, Fozzie & Rise?



Isn't moot at all, unless you are referring to all the nonsense you have been mumbling. Shooting missiles at small ships limits you to Light Missiles, and in combination of using sentry drones or heavy drones, or even going brain dead and following your ~genius~ suggestion of using only one Gecko gives you longer mission completion times, site completion times. Simply because with such a ******** combination, you have lower DPS and hence, utility than pre-patch Kronos Rattlesnake, or heck, even a well-fit Dominix with the best drones available!



Well, you must really be a special kid since you've missed that you aren't able to field 2 Geckos on Rattlesnake, even though you were told before.

And no, target painters do not make your drones navigate faster suddenly even if you fly your Rattlesnake with two heavy drones like you are supposed to. (Alternatively, you can read this as target painters do not magically allow your drones of any kind to be able to hit fast frigates all of a sudden. You really should try flying the ship before making posts that show you are talking out of your ass)



No, this rather illustrates that you have no idea what you are talking about and you are so ~special~ that you can persist sticking with talk coming out of a rectum despite being told objectively several times that you are wrong.

I'm in GoonWaffe if you failed to notice, you might have heard of us before. We live in Deklein right next to Venal, the home of Guristas. A very popular source of income among our membership is running Guristas anomalies, which gives us a broad knowledge of both pirate ships you can attain from Guristas and using any ships against them to make an income. In combination with my tests which involved running a variety of L4 missions with the optimal fits that leverage the new Rattlesnake's bonuses, I can only conclude that Rattlesnake changes were certainly not given the thought they should have given when such changes were proposed, and this only ended up with a pirate Battleship which is even more useless than it was before Kronos.

And that is quite ironic as Fozzie & Rise wanted to make these ship picked up and used more. How they envisaged to making it's utility even more of a niche beats me.



If by dumb, you are referring to your posting here without flying the Rattlesnake first and not even noticing you cannot field two Geckos without me telling you, you really don't need to apologize. That does not offend me at all. Next time, you should actually fly the ship you intend to talk out of your ass about, this might give you some credibility.

Not only that, but why would you lose 3 geckos to webbing frigs?

I was just referring to damage application with Geckos, as they don't seem to be as effective against Guristas compared to the other Pirate factions. Missiles are fine because Guristas are most vulnerable to kinetic damage.

Well regardless of all the forum posting by everyone here, the market has spoken, the rattlesnake is already returning to its prior balance price. Color me not surprised.

The Gila now exceeds 300M (same as the Stratios), 33% over the next pirate faction cruiser in line (the Vigilant), and 300% over the most expensive navy faction cruiser (Vexor N.I.). It is awesome, and the market knows it.

The Rattlesnake's dropped below 500M again, 33% under the next pirate faction battleship in line (the Machariel), and under the four most expensive navy faction battleships (Scorpion N.I., Raven N.I., Megathron N.I. and Dominix N.I.). It's crap, and the market knows it.