Warfare & Tactics

Cap boosted dualrep Tristan

vs

Cap boosted dualrep railcursus.

And Tristan wins ?

Fail game balance, as always.

nope, he was on orbit at 7000, i ran out of boosters so eventually warped out,

what a fun fight ...

So let me get this right.

You had a fight that ended in a stalemate and you warped out after running out of cap boosters and somehow that means the game is not balanced?

I am assuming you would only accept that the game is balanced if you had killed him?

Trying to make a conclusion about balance on the basis of 1 fight is pointless, but doesn't seem to be an issue here anyway. What were his skills, implants, boosters, links vs. yours? What is his pvp experience vs yours? How much time has he spent flying that Tristan fit vs you flying that incursus fit? etc. So many variables.

Worst thread of the week.

What guns did you use? And what drones? How were you fit, how was he fit? How old and experienced was he? And don't complain about game balance when you lose one fight. That just makes you look like an idiot.

A Tristan can easily beat an Incursus, and an Incursus can easily beat a Tristan. Neut Tristan murders blaster Incursus. Rail Incursus murders neut Tristan. Rail Tristan kills blaster Incursus. Blaster Incursus kills blaster Tristan. All very possible fits and outcomes.

You conveniently forgot the case I was getting at in this thread:

Rail incursus .......... Rail Tristan (with hobs). (fill in the gap)

Fyi, i was using

125mm, scram, cap boost, 2x rep, and the usual rest ... (pm me if you want the full fit)

I am maxed in all gunnery skills.

I assume he was also, as well as repping, the guy was as old a char as I.

The only way to win at a fight like this is to simply have more cap boosters than him, and to me, that goes to show something is messed up somewhere.

Maybe the game or maybe me.

Im open to suggestions.

Well there you go,

So before talking, try flying what i fly more often, and against what you conveniently fly for yourself all the time because then you would have a slight idea of what im talking about.



But you see the problem is all I see is Tristan, if you fly solo, it's Tristan 90% of the time.

Cant have it all then look whos talking.

Or a different fit. Dual rep incursus is like a player made punisher, so what did you expect?

Well simply not many or any people's preference anymore for solo.

It used to be though, not entirely but certainly not the onesidedness of solo or even entire fleets of Tristans in space seen everywhere these days.

Care to expand on how that could be ?

Oh for the love of god stop flying dual rep incursus solo

Rubbish.

Go to zkill and search for 'incursus'. Then click on kills and search down a few pages. Plenty of solo kills there.

There is a lot of data available to check these sorts of assumptions.


Lot's a ships go through phases of popularity. Tristans are fairly flexible in terms of fitting - rails, blasters, neuts, pure drone boat. They can be nano fit for kiting and armor brawl fit.

So yeah, they are popular at the moment, but people get sick of flying the same thing over and over. Fads pass and another ship will take over popularity at some point.

Again. Nothing to do with game balance.

In this whole thread you haven't mounted a single good argument to explain why the game is not balanced because a Tristan and Incursus had a fight and couldn't kill each other.