niki lasvegas

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  1. The reason why the marauder became incursion meta is the oldest reason out there (same why the Vindi and Leshak were meta too) : In HS it does the most dps. The change happened somewhere early 2021 i believe. They just simply gave marauder's bastion module double rate of fire without stacking with anything, so practically doubling the DPS. Some other changes happened too and since then a few times, but those are not the reason of marauders being the incursion meta.


  2. On 5/5/2022 at 3:25 PM, Sturgis Podmore5 said:

    I've been flying VG incursions with the folks at Eve Rookies Incursions for about six months or so. Trained up from a Praxis to a Nightmare to a Vargur. I have a bunch of fun flying with them but they only fly three days per week and if there is no spawn or if I can't make one of their fleets for personal schedule reasons I miss flying.

    I'm looking for someone else who flies VG regularly. There's a Brazilian group that I fly with sometimes on weekends but they speak Portuguese in discord as just as much fun without the social interaction. I'm mostly looking for afternoon times Eastern time zone US.

    I'm hesitant to get into HQ because I know it's much more demanding. Eve Rookies doesn't do HQ.

    I play the game in spite of a physical disability. I do really well in VG but I'm a little bit worried HQ might be beyond my capabilities. I don't want to make excuses for myself but I also don't want to lose a ship or not be able to contribute fully to a fleet and do my part.

    So bottom line is… Do you do VG? If so when? And if you do only HQ, where are your typical times? I suppose the only way to know if I can do HQ is to try it out.

    I thought about trying TDF but they are armor and I'm used to flying shield. I haven't checked but I don't know if I have the skills to fly with them and I can't really afford a Paladin.

    Meanwhile if you got time to kill, here's a video I made about how I play Eve. It's rather long and I don't expect anyone to watch the whole thing but you can get the gist of it in about 10 or 15 minutes.


     

    Hey there Sturgis!
    I have a little group that is forming on Saturdays and Sundays after Downtime. We are looking for Paladin pilots. I can lend you a pally if you dont have it yet, that is not a problem. After 14 months of non-stop weekend funs finally we started to struggle with numbers. Even failed to form last weekend so trying to find new people. I guess good weather came and people tend to play EVE a bit less : ) Lately updates wont help either to keep players interested in EVE.

    Anyway. Bottom line is : we are a laid back, but super-efficient bunch, might be not your timezone to play, but if you are interested, shoot an ingame mail to "niki lasvegas" .
    Fly safe
    o7

    P.S. a month later : we are actually pretty good with numbers again. ;3

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  3. 9 hours ago, Reortsed said:

    Actually somone needs to be a pretty good pilot to apply optimal damage with a Golem in an Incursion fleet.

    This : ) 

    Golem is probably the hardest ship to efficiently fly that WTM allows. A pilot who is doing that is anything but bad.

    Simply put: in incursions missiles are not as useful as turrets because of flight time, application and reloading time. Especially with a boat that can not move much if they actually want to do damage. Nowadays its more apparent than ever, when all sansha ships are just blowing up after a few seconds. At least WTM decided to allow them back which in itself was not an easy decision from them (much respect).

    Pretty good application on the tower tho' :) Until you need to hit reload. 

    About changing doctrines: well thats just how EVE works. As was written above Leshaks are just about the best example for that. I am sure that at some point an update will drastically change Incursions again. Maybe not soon tho' :D


  4. This is definitely useful stuff, if you want to keep your budget on the sane side. Personally for budget purposes I would simply choose 2 high dmg and 2 high rof modified abyssals for the 4-set. I would probably not go red with them tho' :P except maybe CPU if you can afford the extra fitting space.

    Honestly in-game sim is also your good friend before you buy anything. That is how i bought all my abyssal stuff.


  5. Surprisingly WTM 1.0 which was created after trigs is still a popular overview and when i ask people what do they use , often times that one.

    But there are tons of good ones out there. For a linepilot with a shooty ship most importantly need a tab where there is only sansha rats and nothing else to clutter (i would even recommend to not have beacon on that one, but its opinionated).


  6. 17 hours ago, James Entwhistle said:

    Hello!

    A few questions about incursions and getting a Hyperion to do incursions with

    1. How many players are usually in a fleet at a time?

    2. I have all the trained skills for a Hyperion, but I lack the actual funds to gain said Hyperion. Is there a way I can loan off of someone to get it or better yet is there an efficient grinding tactic that can be used to gain the funds for it relatively quickly?

    Thanks in advance to anyone who responds, and I look forward to joining this community!

    What is your ingame character name that wants to run with WTM? I am sure we can figure out something : )

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  7. I actually disagree with that Imelda. Before marauders when you actually had to kill almost all the frigs as DDD Vindi i was playing around it a lot. And the 4th link definitely helped. I will even say that even the 5th link helped. You could just simply feel the difference, when you are used to shooting frigs. Cant really explain it better than that.

    On the other hand i am not sure how many frigs you need to actually shoot as a DDD nowadays mainly because of marauders (?) ...

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  8. Hello. The most important difference is that WTM is a "shield tank" community and builds around that. You can read up on a few things, here are some places to start : 

    For fits : 
    https://wl.warptome.net/fits/

    If you have the ISK for it, this is what i would recommend:
     

    Spoiler

    Neutron Blaster Cannon II
    Neutron Blaster Cannon II
    Neutron Blaster Cannon II
    Neutron Blaster Cannon II
    Neutron Blaster Cannon II
    Neutron Blaster Cannon II
    Neutron Blaster Cannon II
    Neutron Blaster Cannon II
     Pithum A-Type Multispectrum Shield Hardener
    Dark Blood Stasis Webifier
    Dark Blood Stasis Webifier
    Dark Blood Stasis Webifier
    Core X-Type 500MN Microwarpdrive
     Federation Navy Magnetic Field Stabilizer
    Federation Navy Magnetic Field Stabilizer
    Federation Navy Magnetic Field Stabilizer
    Federation Navy Magnetic Field Stabilizer
    Federation Navy Drone Damage Amplifier
    Federation Navy Drone Damage Amplifier
    Syndicate Damage Control
     Large EM Shield Reinforcer II
    Large EM Shield Reinforcer II
    Large Thermal Shield Reinforcer II
      'Augmented' Ogre x5
     Tracking Enhancer II x2
    Large Micro Jump Drive x1
    Null L x1
    Void L x1
    Nanite Repair Paste x50
    Mobile Depot x1
    Agency 'Pyrolancea' DB3 Dose I x1

    If you dont have enough, you can look for the cheaper versions on the fittnig website i linked above.

    o7

     

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  9. Some useful links to read for the Nightmare (just to prepare you for easier adjustment).
    It seems a bit overwhelming first, but dont worry about it, you will get used to it.
    Rookie guide:

     

    Anchor spots (AAA for NM):

    MTAC minigame (as a new pilot you dont have to worry about this last one just yet, but sooner or later as a NM you will have to do this role):

     


  10. FC can choose these kind of things in their own fleets. How many, and who.

    Me personally ? I will have my NMs to try to MTAC. All of them. Okay, maybe excluding fairly new bro NMs, but even them should just read up on the subject and at least try to process the job, see it in action.

    They should be competing with each other without real pressure, for just fun.
    But better get used to this competition, because there is going to be one with another fleet, and a lot of times a good MTAC is pretty much essential for a contest win.

    As far as MTAC dropping and tower repping mechanics go the previous commanders already explained so i wont bother. Just simply snatch it and drop it ASAP and look for the next one. Repeat until tower is dead. If you do that there is no such thing like "tower is repping cuz we dropped too soon". If the tower is repping between 2 drops thats simply because someone did not drop on time.


  11. Missing an invite is not a big deal on the waitlist. It happens all the time with the crazy waiting times (everyone can thank CCP for the lack of content). You will be kept on it until next time the chance rises. Might be only a few more minutes, or maybe much more. FC will obviously fill the fleet really quickly, cuz they cant know when will ppl accept invites or be back active.
    2 missed invites same still no worries.
    FC might remove you after 3rd missed invite tho'.

    Now being offline the moment you received an invite is actually a big deal. FC will just assume you lost interest and closed the game and will just remove you from WL. So keep the game open. If you disconnect dont wait for anything, log back in sooner the better.

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  12. Maelstrom has cap problems too, in HQ sites you need to burn a lot and that ship is extremely slow. Without cap skills you are going to suffer.

    Machariel is kind of expensive just to simply buy it then reship after 30 hours.

    Not to mention this topic is more than 14 months old, so the guy asking is probably long gone ;3


  13. Not a bad fit at all, altho' i personally do not prefer it.

    Making a fit unnecessarily cap stable without a good reason doesnt really make sense.You dont need MWD to stay active all the time. It is also bad for a few reasons to just run it endlessly.

    If you want tanky fit, use the tanky version. If you want to lessen the tank thats fine too, but dont just go half-way :) Use greedy fit for more utility.


  14. Welcome back!

    Hours on Waitlist is not really important, dont worry about that.

    As far as Trusted Logi badge you might need to re-earn that one. things have changed a lot. Sites are faster. In some fleets the pace is very different.