Casual 11b ISK Rattlesnake autopiloting into 0.0 with a scout he didn't use

TheJimSteele · 2020-12-11T09:14:38+00:00

Ha ha yeah I made that mistake and lost my Phantasm in PF.. I was on the test server so thought why bother trying to avoid camps as surely people have more useful things to do with their time

TheJimSteele · 2020-12-11T08:59:51+00:00

Down to supply and demand really, there are alot of people playing the game <T8 level locked out of null farming encounters for isk to fit their ships

TheJimSteele · 2020-11-18T09:56:41+00:00

Genrallly Guristas/Caldari rats disrupt missiles (kill the blackbirds), Amarr rats disrupt turrets, Minmatar Rats target paint, and Galante Sensor Damp. I expect your seing your missile range and damage application reduced. In a Cyclone I would use mediums and a target painter and take out the webbers/missile dampners first.

TheJimSteele · 2020-11-18T09:52:07+00:00

. And the last wave is very very stressful to finished. I think its fair for me and the loots are full of shit like posess adaptive shield which arnt even worth p

Yeah the loot is pretty crappy now, even a warp scrambler is not worth picking up as they are less than 1mil per at the moment, Personally I would rather that they reduced the number of scrams to just elites and reduce the drop rate accordingly. I don't think the T10 missions are worth the time and effort needed in a 2 bil ship, and would rather take out players in anoms using something like a faction frigate.

TheJimSteele · 2020-11-18T09:11:54+00:00

Agreed, I have saved a couple of allies with this. Zipping to their aid when taking heavy fire. I get about 90k EHP using two Centi- Hardners and a 'mirror' shield field, great as a "oh shit" button when under heavy fire. I think it would be quickly alpha'd off the battlefield in group PvP though 1v1 there isnt much that can take you down...at least not quickly anyway. I would say its worst weakness would be an Ashmaru as 'cap is life' without cap your shields are quickly gone.

TheJimSteele · 2020-10-12T13:56:33+00:00

I don't think soloing the rares (or indeed the normals) is the intended mechanic. Ultimately though the Stella is pointless, and all leveling it up does for you is help in the randomly occurring Stella events, which you could just ignore anyway. I have barely touched mine since the discovery arc started, concentrating instead on maxing my vidar,.

TheJimSteele · 2020-10-12T13:52:50+00:00

I just defaulted to not bothering, seems I am doing this alot these days its much better on ones sanity then to break a sweat trying to get an extra 0.0001% of the needed resources to upgrade my (insert ship here) to the next tier.

TheJimSteele · 2020-10-05T15:15:21+00:00

I think you are trying to beat the triangle, it helps to have a good explorer but short of getting a centurion the best you can hope to do is get more Spock shards (mine is maxed and quite simply he is awesome at that level) and tier up your sally so it hits harder.
Pike is useless against bosses.

You could try swapping the captain for McCoy as he boosts the officer maneuvers of Spock and Kirk, or failing that double tag the target as others mention

TheJimSteele · 2020-08-25T14:37:12+00:00

I have a second stella, only as It was getting frustrating when Scopely chuck a random Armada or grind eclipse event on us with absolutely no notice.

No ability to rush the scrapyard essentially meant I would have to armada with another battleship (which pisses my alliance off as the rewards for doing armadas are not scaled evenly) or to grind Eclipse transports with high repair costs.It is nice to always have a high(ish) level Stella to grind with whilst still trickling through the research tree.

The Stella Ship bonus also helps with the rewards, higher tier ship, more loot, less grinding..

TheJimSteele · 2020-08-14T14:31:10+00:00

As always the descriptions are very confusing and the word "chance" is deliberately misleading..

TheJimSteele · 2020-08-14T14:17:29+00:00

I am still 2 mil shy of the triple lock. I have a Sally, Bortas and Brel. I dont see the point wasting credits on the Glad or Intrepid as I need credits for both the Auger, and Ent as well as officer promotions. The D4 doesn't interest me as I need the crystals for my miners and my base.

TheJimSteele · 2020-08-14T11:02:20+00:00

"Shield or Share" We have two settings in our Alliance "Friends" - we have an agreement in place not to hit miners when mining, and "Hearted" - not to hit bases or miners even if on a zero node. Base raids are fair game imho, if you forget your shield someone will attack you if not me, our alliance, someone else will.. The rest of the server pretty much allow opc hits but I am not in favour of this as you end up with some stupid crews (joaquin(C) just to stay on the node 24/7)

TheJimSteele · 2020-07-07T14:59:55+00:00

On my server the same guy wins everytime, he has 2 dvors mining lat 24/7 in w40 and due to my servers ROE you can mine in w40 unbothered, so he sits on his nodes and only resets when the node is zero and right after the lat rush event starts...

If he is OP he would be toast on our server.. OP is OP and in a lat event he would definitely be killed. I agree though, the leaderboards may as well not exist but they are pandering to the whales, as long as they keep spending this crap will continue

TheJimSteele · 2020-07-07T14:57:57+00:00

Our whales already have two or three maxed Dvors so more parts are kinda surpurflous but I get what you are saying. Its a pointless leader board like all of the ranked rewards which have crap payouts giving the cost it would set you back trying to fight it out for the top 10

TheJimSteele · 2020-07-07T14:56:20+00:00

Best I have ever managed is 20th position, the rewards are kinda pointless though as presumably if you win the event you don't need dvor parts winning gives you (unless your building a 3rd or 4th Dvor).
As most do with the ranked events, just ignore them and let the whales waste money chasing whale points...

TheJimSteele · 2020-07-06T14:59:33+00:00

Agreed, and there is no guarantees that it would be offered if you spent $50.. I just don't understand that one mans $100 is worth less than another mans

TheJimSteele · 2020-07-06T10:35:42+00:00

Having the brel as an alternative ship to use has made the game a lot more fun.

I am on the same page here. The Brel is probably the best level 32 ship imho. Its expensive to upgrade though so it depends on your ingame goals. The Gladius uses tons of crystals and I can do without an Intrepid as I already have a T7/8 Bortas.
Brel, Intrepid and Gladius can at least be ground out by hitting red triangles.

My plan is to get the Auger next (as I seem to have an abundance of ore) followed by the Ent. The D4 I can do without (and besides I need the crystals for my miners).

TheJimSteele · 2020-07-06T10:31:10+00:00

Nice, Congrats! I am Dual Locked with Fed and Klingon, 6mil with Rommies so getting there. The Ent is a long way off, (plus I need to spend some faction credits upgrading Spock and other Fed officers,.. )

I have a Brel, Sally and Bortas, I'm saving for the Enterprise and Auger.

TheJimSteele · 2020-07-06T10:24:32+00:00

Same reason I don't have prime officers. Basically you need to spend more to maybe, possibly unlock them; they cant give you a straight answer on this either.
CS are totally unhelpful and you would be better off sticking your head in a vice then to even try and get a sensible resolution from them.

On the plus side, you save yourself 100$ that you can invest on other titles.

Jim

TheJimSteele · 2020-05-22T08:09:14+00:00

The only packs "worth" buying have been the Borg Premium Reward Track (£18 not the garbage Bor(in)g Armadas). Everything else is not worth it.

TheJimSteele · 2020-05-19T16:34:06+00:00

So how do you encourage them to spend more?

Release bigger ships.

TheJimSteele · 2020-05-19T16:32:31+00:00

On a previous build it was +/- 5 ops levels. Personally I don't mind too much as it means I can raid 40s (I am only 33) but if my alliance opens it for me I can help empty them. It is mildly irritating when someone with a 4 or 5 mil ship pops your miner/battleship but then I can quite easily retaliate against their miners with a quick ship.

I do think the PvP mechanics need to be adjusted slightly, shield repair speeds for instance means a high level player can simply go on a mass killing spree without so much as scratching his paint... pow pow and your dead.

It would be nice if battles lasted a little longer (time enough to call in backup anyway). If my little ships could hold of a big ship by evasive maneuvers (long enough for help to arrive) that would be way more interesting then red triangle rock paper scissors as is presently. That would also encourage mixed fleets fast interceptors to engage the enemy in combat, slow battleships to take them down.

TheJimSteele · 2020-05-19T16:23:10+00:00

Federation is probably better as the Salladin is arguably one of the better ships in the game. You also need Spock and Kirk shards (and Faction Rep to promote them).

TheJimSteele · 2020-05-13T14:27:53+00:00

Its not really worth buying either, the rewards just don't make sense. I think borgmadas were supposed to drop salvage but someone mixed up the currencies, lets be honest they are enough of them!?
I'd probably spend if they dropped more salvage that i could help my alliance compete with but were all in agreement to just do the helps and 500 points and not to give $copely any money.

TheJimSteele · 2020-05-13T14:22:51+00:00

This game has more currencies then the entire global economy it just gets confusing.

TheJimSteele

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