Caldari Joans

Congrats Becani! I think you're the exact type of person we need in our Eve corp!

Thank you, thank you. I'm looking forward to fighting alongside everyone during this deployment! Travel safe, T. I'll try not to wreck too much while you're away.

Glad to have you onboard brother. We'll do a celebratory roam when you're ready. Pick a ship you want to fly and die in.

\o/ Thanks for having us!

Hey CN, welcome to the SOHCO forums! Hope to see you around our space soon. If you need any assistance getting setup just let me know.

Understood and signed!

Lies he drives a gold truck. Spai.

You're welcome brother. Best of luck to you.

Just got the sin and his tackle again: https://zkillboard.com/related/30000545/201512311800/

How's everyone doing? Hopefully the holidays are treating you well! I have some free time for Eve over the next couple of days before I get into the weekend festivities. Hopefully I can catch you guys around.

Yea, my guess is we'll see a prevalence of armor tanked T3 links. Tank modules will require tradeoffs with the command processors. Large scale this won't matter as much because you can just devote logi to your link ship. Small gang things will shift slightly but with people having invested toons into links a new method will emerge.

I agree for all but one point. Prior to the Svipul coming out my corp frequently fielded Thrashers. With the Svipul's release, the Thrasher is completely overshadowed unless you are seriously strapped for cash. When fully stocked I typically have four uniquely fit Svipuls in my hangar. What's sad is most can handle all of the same fights. They are simply designed to have an edge in certain encounters. I used to have a clip of my double armor rep Svipul soloing a Caracal and Rapier. That's two RLML cruisers with web support. No links or drugs involved. The engagement profile begs the question "why fly anything else?". Even bling fitting a Svipul lands it under the price of a HAC. RLMLs do need a change. As it stands I cannot take any of my frigate options on a roam because RLMLs are everywhere. I can potentially tank one Caracal but anything else and you vaporize within about a 50km sphere of the Caracal. The Orthrus is even worse because now you have to make sure your cruiser doesn't get caught by the anti-frigate platform. Again it's the issue of having an incredibly wide engagement profile. This isn't healthy for anyone because, due to it's power, many roamers choose the Orthrus. This prevents potential fights because who really wants to chase down an Orthrus while wading through ridiculous amounts of damage to get hit with a scram at 20km? If a ship enters your system and the best counter is a better fit/skilled version of the same ship then there's potentially a balance issue. Offgrid links are long overdue for a change. Nothing new there. I don't worry much about remote sebo setups because I already have to account for Svipuls when in small sig radius hulls. Anything larger and a dedicated camp will catch me regardless.

Dominix landed in a very nasty gang with solid dps, EWAR, and logi. Such is the life of a lone battleship!

I roamed it around for a bit but didn't get any fights. Hopefully I find something before I leave for the week.

Sure here's a screenshot from EFT: This builds on a foundation I have for X-Large Ancil Boosted tanks. You can change out the resist mods for a shield boost amp to get near same results. I have ECCM fit because the day prior there was a Falcon around our system and I left it up in case Ragma (the cloaky hunter) brought one through the cyno. I made sure to fit a Nosferatu so I could continue to run my tackle and shield hardeners under what I planned would be intense capacitor warfare. I actually recorded the fight and will upload it once I can get a few more clips. If you watch it you'll notice I'm having to spam my modules to use up the cap the NOS brings in before the Sin and Tengu drains it out. Close fight, I ended up at 14% armor when the Sin popped. I didn't take a blue pill until late into the fight. It would have made it not even close if I took it right off the bat. As far as getting him to engage- the hunter Ragma attempted to BLOPs drop my Typhoon last week but messed up tackle. After that point whenever I knew he was active (he AFK cloaks) I would bounce from gates to station to look innocent. A Raven is typically a juicy PvE target and it was just a matter of time. He actually dropped onto me when I was on station. Last check of his KB before I baited gave me two important pieces of intel: first, the Sin pilot/last Sin lossmail: https://zkillboard.com/kill/50725187/ and second, the fact that midday EST he typically only drops with the Sin whereas in the evening he drops the Sin plus friends. It being midday meant I had a good chance of only getting hit by the Sin.