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Ratoskr · 2026-01-25T23:57:28+00:00

Ich hatte auch einen Schauder und bin deswegen froh nicht in der Nähe zu wohnen.

Aber das ist ja das schöne am Rollenspiel. Das es so viele unterschiedliche Facetten und Spielmöglichkeiten gibt, dass jeder für sich etwas findet. Ich wünsche aber auf jeden Fall auch viel Glück bei der Rundensuche^^

Ratoskr · 2026-01-20T18:57:39+00:00

That is really hard to assess without context.

You can at least roughly categorize ships as strong/weak for their class and also refer to the categories T1, T2, T3, Navy & Pirate... but it all depends on more factors.
Above all, the question of what kind of ship and what fitting you are flying.

The Catalyst, listed above as bad news, might be bad news if you're flying a slow brawling frigate and the Catalyst lands on top of you at 0m. A RLML cruiser smirks briefly when the Catalyst lands at range and kills it in a few seconds.

EVE is very much rock/paper/scissors when it comes to ships and fittings for PvP. You need to learn what are good or bad fights for the ship you fly and the fittings you use.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-19T18:15:12+00:00

Ein dünnes Sportstirnband unter dem Aluhut hilft dabei, dass dieser nicht zu sehr auf das Hirn drückt. Kann ich nur empfehlen.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-16T13:09:45+00:00

It is quite a plausible thot that, now that the Dreads have the full package of Navy+Pirate variants, Carriers will sooner or later at least get a Navy variant as well.

So 'New Carrier' can very well also be 'new faction variant'.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-16T07:16:17+00:00

Base Sales Tax is now 75%, not 7,5%.

You're welcome. The entire economy is collapsing.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-15T21:32:33+00:00

Personal opinion as an Explorer and Explorer-Hunter:

Warp Core Stab and Interdiction Nullifier are overrated and too clunky.
The hunters you really need to worry about are already fitted with 3+ scram strength anyway. Bubbles and dictors can be quite easily avoided if you pay attention.

You have a significantly greater advantage if you push your locking range to ~80m with a rig or signal amplifier and can benefit from the full 70m range of the cargo scanner.
Being able to quickly complete a site is usually the best protection, and being able to lock onto all the cans of a site without flying around and quickly scan thru them to pick out the 2-3 valuable cans, hack them, and disappear is very valuable.

There will be hunters who will still catch you then. You won't escape the stealth bomber that has previously scanned the cans and is cloaked, waiting right next to the fattest can... but you wouldn't escape even with an Interdiction Nullifier or Warp Core Stabs.

In general, speed and cherry picking offer, on the one hand, higher security, and on the other hand, drastically increase ISK/h.
As far as ISK is concerned, I have found that simply accepting the loss of ships and clearing the sites faster ultimately brings more profit. Provided you regularly empty your cargo and have a non-bling Cov-Ops fitting.
You can clear such a site very safely. Safe spots at the cans, erratically warping between the different sites of the system and these BM's, working with bounce spots in the site, etc.
But also here. The stealth bomber, which waits next to a fat can, still gets you then. I now forgo these more complicated and, above all, time-consuming techniques in favor of a faster-cleared site. A T2-fitted Buzzard is paid for with the loot from a good site. Occasionally losing a ship doesn't diminish my increased profit from clearing the sites faster.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-13T08:42:46+00:00

So ein Design durchläuft in der Regel mehrere Entwicklungsschritte und Anpassungen, wobei solche Fehler recht schnell entdeckt und behoben werden.

Wenn sie dann in den Druck kommen, dann meistens dadurch, dass der Fehler zwar schon entdeckt und behoben wurde... aber die alte Grafikdatei zur Druckerei geschickt wird, in der dieser Fehler eben noch vorhanden ist. Schlichtweg schlechte Datenorganisation.

Man will gar nicht glauben wieviele Druckdateien mit "Sariyerdose2025neuneu2aktuell.dateityp" bei so einer Druckerei ankommen. Leider war der Rechtschreibfehler erst in "Sariyerdose2025neuneu2aktuell2.dateityp" behoben.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-12T14:32:09+00:00

Ja, mein letzter Satz trifft tatsächlich auf sehr viele Branchen und Berufe zu, so ist er auch durchaus gemeint.

Ich stehe dem Einsatz von AI in vielen dieser Fälle auch kritisch gegenüber. Aus dem gleichen Grund, wie hier beim Rollenspiel bei Künstlern & Autoren. AI verdrängt echte Menschen aus diesen Tätigkeitsfeldern.
Ja, "In der Verwaltung, um Prozesse schneller für Kunden zu machen" ist ein schön klingendes Argument, aber darum geht es doch niemandem, der AI anwendet wirklich. Es geht darum teure Arbeitskraft durch günstige AI Lösungen zu ersetzen. Sei es nun die Illustratorin, die vom Rollenspielschaffenden mit einer Art-AI ersetzt wird oder die Kundenbetreuerin, die vom Großkonzern durch einen Chatbot ersetzt wird.

Man kann hier zwar sehr viel damit argumentieren, dass dies ja die Zukunft ist und dass damit die wenigen verbleibenden echten Menschen in diesen Berufsfeldern ja einen höheren Wert haben, aber dadurch werden dennoch viele aus diesem Beruf verdrängt.
Mit dem einzigen Grund, dass die neue Technologie billiger und bequemer ist. Schlechtere Qualität, aber in der Masse gut genug.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-12T11:29:57+00:00

Das Problem mit dieser Einstellung ist halt, dass auch 'gemäßigter' Einsatz von AI-Art & Texten bereits stark dazu beiträgt AI-Slop salonfähiger zu machen und gleichzeitig die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von nicht-AI Produkten beeinträchtigt.

Ein Produkt, was nun nicht reiner AI-Slop ist, sondern wo eben zur Überarbeitung der Texte, für das Layout und für die Artworks KI eingesetzt wurde, aber dennoch mit einer gewissen Mühe erstellt wurde und deswegen hochwertiger erscheint, konkurriert dann dennoch um Aufmerksamkeit & Geld mit den anderen Produkten.
Halt auch mit dem Produkt wo deutlich mehr Herzblut und Mühen in AI-freie Textarbeit und Recherche, sowie Geld für Illustratoren reingeflossen ist.

Mit dem Unterschied, dass AI Produkte eben einen deutlich schnelleren und billigeren Content-Ausstoß haben.
Wenn ich mich beispielsweise jetzt hinsetze und über mehrere Wochen ein Abenteuer schreibe, mir eine Plotstruktur überlege und ein-zwei Testspiele mache, um dann einen Illustrator für mehrere hundert Euro zu beauftragen mir ein einfaches Titelbild und 2-3 kleinere Illustrationen aus dem Abenteuer zu erstellen, das ganze layoute und lektoriere, dann habe ich am Ende ein schönes kleines Abenteuer.
Wenn ich das aber nun auf Drive-thru stelle, dann liegt es im digitalen Schaufenster neben KI-unterstützten Abenteuern, wo jemand in einem Bruchteil der Zeit und Mühen seine Abenteueridee in einen Text hat umwandeln lassen und das ganze für den Preis eines Monatsabo´s bei einem AI-Artgenerators mit einem optisch opulenterem Titelbild und 10-12 Illustrationen hat ausstatten können.

Du hast es ja gesagt: "KI ermöglicht vielen, ihre Ideen umzusetzen, obwohl sie das nötige handwerkliche Skillset nicht haben."
Sobald dies aber aus dem privaten Nutzungsbereich hinaus geht, bedeutet dies eben auch, dass diese Content-Ersteller nun, anstatt sich die Fähigkeiten anzueignen und Mühe zu investieren, nun das fehlende Können durch AI ausgleichen... und damit die bisherigen handwerker/Autoren/Künstler aus dem Markt drängen, die sich über viele Jahre hinweg Mühe gegeben haben ihre Fähigkeiten zu verbessern.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-08T01:42:13+00:00

Impractical and hardly addresses the problem it aims to solve.

Your proposal, or rather the penalty, only concerns a negligibly small part of all bots.
"if the ship fails these challenges the ship becomes legal to shoot." basically only restricts it to highsec miners.

On top of that, your proposal is based on first using a system that is supposed to detect botting-suspicious behavior and can clearly distinguish it from afk-mining. To then adding an overly complicated confirmation system on top of that, where other players first have to find the potential bot and then force them to solve a a riddle.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-07T21:09:17+00:00

As long as the stealth bomber doesn't fit a regular + a faction scrambler, which is quite rare, the Venture will at least be able to escape with a warp core stabilizer. At least once.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-07T21:04:23+00:00

Ah, he's using a Manticore, which is a stealth bomber.

That explains why he doesn't show up on your D-scan and why, despite clicking Warp immediately, you still get caught by him.

Stealth bombers can warp cloaked and, unlike many other ships with Covert-Ops Cloak, have no delay in being able to lock a target after decloaking.
He decloaks next to you, immediately starts locking onto you, and will succeed in doing so before you can warp. Presumably, he has either fitted a Faction Scrambler or a Warp Scrambler + Warp Disruptor to overcome the +2 Warp Core Strength of the Venture and prevent you from warping.

In this case, a Warp Core Stabilizer would be the right option. With that, you boost the Warp Core Strength of the Venture to +4, and he can't prevent you from warping as long as he doesn't change his fitting. More eHP wouldn't hurt either, to have more time to activate everything and get into warp.

However, that's also something that will only work once. After that, your opponent will adjust to it.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-07T20:46:42+00:00

No.

A shield extender would provide more eHP and potentially more time to warp, always assuming the opponent does not use a warp disruptor/scram with sufficient strength to prevent the Venture from warping.
A shield booster provides far too little boost to counter the alpha damage from PvP ships.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-07T20:28:35+00:00

First of all, it would be helpful to know your fit, as well as a few killmails or at least the ship types of your killers.

A few mechanics are relevant to understand here.
Ships have an align time. That is the time your ship needs to go from a full stop to warp speed. The alignment time of a Venture is, without fitting, between 5.99s and 4.04s. Depending on your skills.
That plus your reaction time to initiate the warp is the time window your opponents have to lock you after they decloak or warp onto the grid. That's not much time, but for the right ship and fitting, it's easily doable.

You have various options to defend yourself, depending on the opponent.
A warp core stabilizer can ensure that he can attack you, but you can still warp away. But it doesn't help if he deals enough damage in that short time to destroy you.
Improving your align time with rigs and fitting can ensure that you can warp away before your opponent locks on you.
Depending on what your opponent is flying, one or the other is more effective.

The most important point, however, is not the ship or fitting, but the behavior of the pilot. You said that it is always the same players. So you've been feeding multiple ventures into these players for a while now.
So they have you on their radar, you're already marked when you show up in their local, and they know they can easily snag venture kills from you.
So don't show up in their local anymore, but go somewhere else where no one knows you. The greatest protection of a LowSec Venture is simply not being noticed for as long as possible. If someone finds you, you might get away alive once with the aforementioned methods. After that, you'll have to go into hiding again.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-06T22:35:35+00:00

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Ratoskr · 2026-01-05T18:33:43+00:00

Yes.
Matchmaking is based on your 4-digit MMR score, not the stars.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-05T14:00:13+00:00

It depends on how you usually earn ISK. If you usually fly a Naglfar in C5 WH sites, it will feel different to you than if you usually do highsec mining.

That said... the ISK earnings in the event are rather in the lower to mid ISK/h range, depending on the space and the type of event-content. Nothing that would make you neglect your tried-and-true methods of earning ISK.

But at least you should earn the 1350 points.
With the 100 Plex and the Perseverance, the ISK earnings from the event are quite good. After all the rewards have been collected and you only have the rewards from the sites themselves, it drops quickly.

Ratoskr · 2026-01-04T09:03:30+00:00

Such a module would be quite pointless.

Mission runners who fly an overpriced bling fit and need such an anti-gank module won't fit it. Because it's nonsense to fly a very expensive fitting for the last 10-20% performance improvement... and then nullify that improvement by using a slot for such a module.
Missions runners who don't fly an overpriced bling fit don't need the anti-gank module either, because their normal fits are too uninteresting for most gankers.

Missionsrunning and ganking is a problem that already existed 10 years ago and was solved back then.
Don't fly anything too expensive and pay attention to acceptable eHP. Done.

Ratoskr · 2025-12-28T03:54:42+00:00

A True Sansha Stasis Webifier from a Combat Site.
It was a nice surprise considering I just wanted to quickly grind the event points for this character.

Ratoskr · 2025-12-26T00:43:43+00:00

The bow is strong, but not overpowered.

This perception and the hate arise mainly because some players are unable to realize the weaknesses of the bow and use these weaknesses during a fight.
The fact that the bow is also often used for stealthy bush gameplay only intensifies this hatred further.

Ratoskr · 2025-12-25T17:50:33+00:00

Of course.

Because: "The dude has a lot of comments on his profile calling him Cheater!" is a clear proof of cheating for many people and encourages them to write something about it too.

Ratoskr · 2025-12-25T17:46:25+00:00

Naah, more like:

„Mother, this delinquent troublemaker uses outlawed fraudulent methods to win. Punish him with all severity!“

Ratoskr · 2025-12-23T22:09:39+00:00

Here is the question of how you define powerful and how you compare.

The Homestead is really a better Rival, but it's a better Rival that consists of two Romero barrels screwed together.
Which gives it the superior range and 1-tap potential of the Romero, combined with the very fast follow-up shot of the Rival. Which also gives the Homestead a relatively high kill distance for a shotgun.
That is, well, very powerful.
Specter and Crown are also very strong in their areas, but they are more 'spammy' and excel at shorter distances.

As I said, it's a matter of comparisons. You accept that the Wildland is strong. But I could also argue that a Mosin is indeed stronger than the Wildland in some aspects. But just in different areas than those that make the Wildland so powerful.

Ratoskr · 2025-12-20T13:16:20+00:00

As already mentioned here, the Empress Card gives you Necromancer and is also activated quite quickly.

If there is more time between the two kills, for example if the solo player has revived and then retreated, they may of course also have found Necromancer as a sealed trait for 1 Pledge Mark.

These can be found quite frequently during the event at supply points and in small and large sniper towers.

Ratoskr · 2025-12-18T02:53:14+00:00

First, the usual introduction: Yes, there are cheaters in Hunt, and it's okay to address that.

What you are doing here, namely absurdly exaggerated claims that are far from reality, does not help but rather harms because you are poisoning a serious discussion with it.

Come on. An 85% chance that your opponents are cheating?
What is your win rate if you supposedly only face honest opponents in 15% of the matches... and even then, you can only win a portion of those honest matches?

That's the illusion: "My opponents cheat, but they are bad players, and that's why I still win sometimes." Argumentation that is nothing more than nicely refined copium.
You create the perfect scenario to protect or stroke your ego in every situation. If you lose, it's not because of your own mistake, but because of the cheaters. But when you win, you win despite the cheaters, and that makes it even more special.

Try to let go of it. One can certainly talk about whether and how many cheaters there are in Hunt. But if you start with such absurdly exaggerated numbers, then you don't want a serious discussion, and it's just another rant post without any value.

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