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edit: ^^ Thanks for the clarification, I had thought that but couldn't remember where I'd heard it. Overall it also seems like data collection on heat behavior is hard because of the variability. So guess we have to just listen to CCP



Thanks for the great comment, and I like this part especially - I agree with this and kind of wish I had emphasized it a bit more in the podcast. I also feel somewhat out of place in gangs especially when they exceed 4 or so people, mostly because damage and dynamics do actually change quite a bit, and it seems to require the development of a somewhat different set of instincts from soloing - there's more to process with both enemy and your own gang's movements, more complex comms, etc.

^Nice kill, you definitely win the isk war. :) SFI fits like that can beat hurricanes actually because of tracking, so nicely done and good thoughts. And yeah ideally you would have neuted his scram off for a moment, allowing yourself an MWD cycle to get some range and tracking on him, which also might have allowed your escape after he died. All that may very well have been impossible though heh

Good Job, If you would of know the area abit more. you would of known Choke point are always with back up. Or camping that UBX gate. And you was lucky they didn't have 2 Falcons ready.

Excellent show, with a very savvy hands on insight. Love the PvP focus, hope I'm so brave at PvP one day. Hoping for many many more episodes! Thank you!

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Some canes these days dont plug their EM hole at all, in which case it would be advantageous. (~40% resist gap)

But in general people put at least an anti-em screen which fills the hole 30% and makes kinetic the right choice again. Drakes also may not specifically plug EM damage, but given their generally high resists the difference between kinetic and EM will be less than the 25% damage bonus you get for kinetic. Given that uncertainty and the possibility of having more targets, i personally load kinetic in every case except strong T2 gallente and caldari resists. Also furies are great against shield tanked bcs, of course.

I've had this in a tab for a while now kept meaning to listen to it.

Generally though I hate podcasts, sitting there staring blankly at nothing listening to people talk, I quickly get bored start looking at something else.

I stuck at it though, and listened to most of these casts, I'm very glad I did! Even though they did drag on a bit I learned a lot and really got some inspiration. I think I'd prefer shorter casts, more frequently.

But what was more interesting where your short bite pvp solo videos.... this is WAY much more up my street, even though it was 1am watched them all. it goes to show that A video doesn't have to be long, intricate and amazing, just these short examples have helped me adjust my attitude a bit more to pvp.

I always imagined solo pvp or small gang to just be a case of suicide where your always going to just get blobbed, but some of the tactics you reveal show that its just not as simple as that.

I did have some questions / comments though ;

Hyperion - Several times I hear you go on about this ship as some kind of 'win-ship' but I dont get it, why? what does it have that the megathron or dominix cant do much better? You mentioned "destroying pirates with a hyperion" but deliberately not going in a hyperion to not scare them away... Video of this pls? or some explanation as to why you hold it with so much reverence.

Where to start - a lot of what you talk about is interesting but quite deep, I've got a few characters 20m sp and 50m sp and even with this much sp and a reasonable amount of ISK I'm always apprehensive of pvp. Where should a beginner start to build up confidence? frigates, cruisers or BC. It seems BC's are the best place to start and you talk about the HAM drake a lot.. but what about other race's BC's

I've not actually listened to the later podcasts (shame on me, will do one of these days) and still think I can answer that. Ships in general have reputations. If you want to have good fights, you have to make the ship you are sitting in perform better than it's reputation, so people engage based on the rep and still get surprised.

Now, the Hype is a very special case since it's reputation is far better than it's actual performance. People see "tank bonus" so "hard to kill" and "blaster bonus" so "omg he's gonna have wtfbbq dps", so the semiinformed campers that you generally look for while sitting in tank heavy ships will treat it about the same as a Maelstrom, which has half again as much tank and dps, in their threat assessment. So gangs that you actually can fight with Hypes will, generally, run, since the Hype does not, actually, perform any better than Megas or Domis who still get viewed as less scary.

This is speaking purely from a traditional armortank (dualrep) solo view. Shield gank Hypes are scary but hardly work on their own.

still shooting with bonus dmg is always a good idea instead of constantly reloading, trying to find a hole, unless you clearly can't break the tank

You also have to take into account the fact that you have to go through their armor too, mostly important when shooting at canes where it actually makes thermal damage better than EM even if they don't have an em rig

This is my new favourite podcast, I love the concept.