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XMas gift of 2,000,000 skill points for logging on today.
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Tortilla Maker posted:XMas gift of 2,000,000 skill points for logging on today. Hello battlecruisers!
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Dec 24, 2019 16:01
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Also, Retrievers. Expect that to be the new hotness in killmails to replace all the Venture IIIs we've been popping in H-PA
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Dec 24, 2019 20:03
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Bagged my first Retriever tonight, was ratting down in Fountain because I wanted armor stuff and that doesn't drop where we're currently living. I found a nice dead end -1 system and was doing my thing burning through 10s in my Worm when another player showed up in local. Since this was EVE I automatically assumed that someone was scouting me but then I remembered that this is EVE Echoes full of clueless carebears so I set my Cov Ops alt to scout the belts and low and behold in the last belt I find this guy in a shinny new Retriever sucking down ore. So I creep up on him with my Cov Ops align my Worm with his belt, then when I'm in range I hit warp to the belt and uncloak, which was dumb because now I had a targeting delay, fortunately he wasn't on the ball and I managed to land a point with both the cov ops and the Worm (faction point) which was enough to overcome his warp strength . Then I start pew pewing him and think drat this thing is a lot more resilient than I thought they'd be as I slowly whittled through his armor, my cov ops started taking amor damage and was getting dangerously close to to hull so I killed his drones, then I realized that my drones weren't attacking (oops) and set them loose melting the Retriever rapidly at that point. I missed his pod because I suck and didn't get it locked in time but I did get his loot and a fair amount of ore. I sent the one Cov ops (which was now full of loot home) and sent out a second, a little while later low and behold another stranger pops into local and I repeat the process. This time he got lucky because I missed getting the second point on him and he managed to slip my trap (going to be refitting that Cov Ops with double faction points going forward). A hour or so later a buddy joined me ratting and after exhausting the high level anoms in the system we'd been in we check the neighboring system and find a guy who's running an Inquisitor site in a Caracal. I scouted again using the Cov Ops and this time rather than using it for point (since a Caracal is a wee bit more dangerous than a Retriever) I just kept eyes on him while my buddy in a Garmur and I got set up to jump him. Took the gate, locked him down and splash 2 , got the pod this time and some shiny faction loot while breaking my buddies PVP cherry in the beta. On top of that I got a bunch of tech 7 loot and a crap ton of rig blueprints from the multiple Inquisitor sites I hit. Lots of easy targets who don't understand how brutal EVE is and I've been having a great time educating them. PS we now have custom chat channels so it's a lot easier creating your "do not kill" or "Shoot blues" list as you prefer. Skex fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Dec 28, 2019 |
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Dec 28, 2019 09:37
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When did the fitting options change? Woke up to 2 mids and a bunch more lows on the coercer. Shits whack yo. Also a lot of modules like heat sinks/mag stabs and damage controls are active modules rather than passive (or so it seems. The descriptions have activation costs and timers). Looks like they're trying to make modules situationally interactive so you choose between DPS or repairs or whatever. Not an inherently bad idea, just weird compared to eve classic.
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Dec 29, 2019 03:49
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Carth Dookie posted:When did the fitting options change? The patch a couple days ago saw lots more slots open for low end ships. As for the modules being active - as I under stand it many of them offer a small passive bonus which gets a lot bigger when activated.
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Dec 29, 2019 22:39
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Yeah, new slots really helped my corax. It's been a blast being able to play on the go. I'm hoping to finally get in on a roam when I get time
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Dec 29, 2019 22:50
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PathAsc posted:Yeah, new slots really helped my corax. It's been a blast being able to play on the go. I'm hoping to finally get in on a roam when I get time Expect scheduled roams starting the week after New Years. I'm gunning for twice a week to start led by me. Other people are of course welcome to do more.
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Dec 29, 2019 23:47
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Erev posted:Expect scheduled roams starting the week after New Years. I'm gunning for twice a week to start led by me. Other people are of course welcome to do more. Cool, I'll set up bluestacks for that
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Dec 30, 2019 00:07
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Regular roams will occur Mondays and Thursdays starting January 6th and January 9th. Money Mondays - bring the classiest poo poo you can afford to lose to these roams. Show off and blow poo poo up in style. Shitfit Thursdays - Bring your throwaway ships and things you've been wanting to test out. Expect to lose this ship in a Battle Royale to close out the night. This is also a good way to make certain you've still got everyone set to blue for those of us that are bad about updating.
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Dec 30, 2019 13:40
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Another free 2mil SP today for New Years! Burned 1mil of it getting my medium drone and battlecruiser skills up to snuff, no clue what to do with the rest
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Dec 31, 2019 15:43
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They just announced that the Open Beta will be ending on January 10th. still waiting for word on the next phase and whether it will be a second beta or a soft launch or when. So I'm switching from building up resources mode to end the beta with as few ships and as many kills as possible mode.
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Jan 3, 2020 09:08
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Yep, I'm going out in a blaze of mediocrity
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Jan 3, 2020 09:09
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Op tonight starting from H-PA around 6pm PST. Kitchen Sink fleet bring whatever shinny or rusty ships you want we're going to be flying around camping here camping there ganking whatever we can find fighting whoever comes after us. Less than a week to go until server wipe so nows the time to get some shinny poo poo killed while bringing as much excitement into the pubbie's lives as we can manage.
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Jan 4, 2020 23:45
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Skex posted:Op tonight starting from H-PA around 6pm PST. Kitchen Sink fleet bring whatever shinny or rusty ships you want we're going to be flying around camping here camping there ganking whatever we can find fighting whoever comes after us. Less than a week to go until server wipe so nows the time to get some shinny poo poo killed while bringing as much excitement into the pubbie's lives as we can manage. Hell yeah
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Jan 5, 2020 00:04
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Decent little op tonight, started off a little rough prior when I was picking up the Gila that Inimicus graciously gifted me to try out as he wasn't going to have time to enjoy it and ran into a gate camp at the Taisy/M-OEE8 gate, one of our guys lost a Garmur while black screen coming out of a station which meant our intended pointer wasn't available on time, plus it took a little extra time to find a safe route to the rally point in the Gila. Once I made it to the station and got the fleet formed we took a few minutes to get a couple ships sorted for the op, some guy undocks a Cyclone and Stealthgerbil had a couple thrashers on the undock so we wait on baited breath to see if he's ballsy enough to aggress and joy of joys he is. We undock lock him up and pop him, a few minutes later while we're forming up we get a massive spike in local at which point I warp the fleet to a planet so we won't be stuck in station, the enemy had us significantly outnumbered and out shipped so we did a round of cat an mouse running them around the system until we could get the fleet together and I got enough rust shook off my FC skillset to figure out the actual route for our roam. At this point Deathnexus volunteers to run point and grabs a Slasher II and she did an excellent job of hunting down targets for us, eventually bagging another Cyclone in an anomaly and an Omen and a Thrasher Trainer on a gate. We roamed around near Serpentis Prime a bit however by that point people were tired after the 43 jump journey and started logging off. The highlight of the night for me was blue balling the try-hards who were trying to avenge their buddies battle cruiser we lead them on a merry but ultimately fruitless (for them) chase prior to going off to have our own fun. There are lots of people who get really worked up about their ehonor and they provide a near bottomless bucket of salty tears to feast on. Really looking forward for when this goes live.
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Jan 5, 2020 09:09
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Real talk, is this game accessible to someone who never played the original and is a couch surfer? I'm starting up and have no idea if any choices I make will screw me in the long run.
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Jan 5, 2020 20:05
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Skex posted:Decent little op tonight, started off a little rough prior when I was picking up the Gila that Inimicus graciously gifted me to try out as he wasn't going to have time to enjoy it and ran into a gate camp at the Taisy/M-OEE8 gate, one of our guys lost a Garmur while black screen coming out of a station which meant our intended pointer wasn't available on time, plus it took a little extra time to find a safe route to the rally point in the Gila. This was really fun, and I wish I hadn't had to log off early. The tears were great, and I'm hoping to pick off some of these guys in anoms this week before reset.
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Jan 5, 2020 21:23
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m.hache posted:Real talk, is this game accessible to someone who never played the original and is a couch surfer? ya it's quite literally the easiest game to hop into, you can fly any ship or use any weapon system without having the skills unlocked, you'll just be 75% worse than specialized idiots
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Jan 5, 2020 21:36
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1001 Arabian dicks posted:ya it's quite literally the easiest game to hop into, you can fly any ship or use any weapon system without having the skills unlocked, you'll just be 75% worse than specialized idiots Do the starting factions matter at all?
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Jan 5, 2020 22:06
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m.hache posted:Do the starting factions matter at all? not at all, but if you don't pick caldari you're wrong.
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Jan 6, 2020 01:31
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1001 Arabian dicks posted:not at all, but if you pick caldari you're wrong. Seriously though, choose what looks prettiest. Beta does end soon but there's a bit of time. We'll start heavier recruitment for next beta/soft launch which *should* have corporations and alliances.
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Jan 6, 2020 05:22
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I know I'm heading for heavier boats faster this time around
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Jan 6, 2020 05:35
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Can we edit our portraits or is it all RNG?
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Jan 6, 2020 06:26
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Bell_ posted:Can we edit our portraits or is it all RNG? So far at least it is just 8 portraits per faction.
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Jan 6, 2020 08:20
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1001 Arabian dicks posted:not at all, but if you don't pick Gallente you're wrong.
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Jan 6, 2020 10:08
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i think medium weapons systems are the thing to go for, ignore smalls that, and missiles > hybrids > rest imo
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Jan 6, 2020 10:17
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I'm only a few days into the beta so just practising before the wipe. Is there any point in going for a Drone build out of the gate?
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Aramoro posted:I'm only a few days into the beta so just practising before the wipe. Is there any point in going for a Drone build out of the gate? sure if you want
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Jan 6, 2020 11:29
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Drones are not as OP as missiles and can be shot down but they do hit pretty darn hard.
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Jan 6, 2020 15:39
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Erev posted:Drones are not as OP as missiles and can be shot down but they do hit pretty darn hard. Drones have some definite disadvantages (travel time, able to be destroyed), but they hit hard and most combat is so short that in general the choice to shoot drones means that you aren't doing damage to the ship and once drone is dead it's a relatively easy to launch a spare, I also think they are going to be much more attractive once ammo becomes a thing. Personally I plan on training both missiles and drones as my two favorite ships to date are he Garmur and Worm. The cruiser hulls are much more resilient however I've lost or missed out on a lot of kills due to their sluggishness both in travel and targeting. I think that the Assault Destroyers have a lot of potential, reasonably resilient. frigate fast in assault mode and solid damage profiles if we could combine some these with logi ships and their AOE defense capabilities we'd have a potent little mobile doctrine. Didn't get enough chance to play with logi during the beta, we'll need to spend some more time figuring out those mechanics and how they effect combat. Personally I'm planning on focusing on frigates and small hulls to start, I'm getting back into a Garmur as soon as I can as that 41km 7 strength point is the most useful killing tool in the entire game.
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1001 Arabian dicks posted:i think medium weapons systems are the thing to go for, ignore smalls I wonder how they plan to introduce ammo with the current UI. Even though no body is shooting drones right now, the thought that eventually they will and I'll have to mess with loading drones from the drone bay back onto the launcher bar on my mobile screen has turned me off of thinking of them as a viable way to play when the game officially launches.
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I been playing a vexor since Im bad and its the playstyle I know, the drone ui is actually very streamlined/dumbed down, you can just tap the icon twice to send them out and focus them on your current target, they also seem to be automatically returning to the bay when I have to escape.
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so since the beta is ending, i've skilled up cruisers and all of the medium weapon skills to 5, their advanced to 4 and their upgrade skill to 4 and tried all four of the faction ships and weapons. nothing touches the Caracal with rapid light missiles in regard to dps, range, ability to punch down to frigates and up to BCs. Unless I'm completely naive to some gotcha mechanic, i don't see a reason to skill up anything but medium missiles and cruiser skills.
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Jan 8, 2020 19:16
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ROAM AND SERVER EVENT TONIGHT! We will be starting our roam from H-PA at 02:00 UTC on January 10th (18:00 Pacific on January 9th). Our destination will be Black Rise where we will each try to get on some Serpentus event NPC killmails to qualify for free poo poo at soft launch. We will then, of course, proceed to gently caress with everyone else in the system. See you TONIGHT! Erev fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Jan 9, 2020 13:49
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The News thingy said that after the 8th you'll be able to reserve your name on the Bio page, does anyone know where this is? Edit: worked it out. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Jan 9, 2020 14:47
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Erev posted:ROAM AND SERVER EVENT TONIGHT! Can't wait. I may have to catch up to the group as I've got a late meeting, but I'll jump in asap
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Jan 9, 2020 15:18
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Erev posted:ROAM AND SERVER EVENT TONIGHT! You get one of each 'Navy' cruiser today when you login!
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Jan 9, 2020 19:51
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Have they given any indication when the next beta or any ability to play is going to be?
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ModeSix posted:Have they given any indication when the next beta or any ability to play is going to be? Closed beta or two then soft release it sounds like.
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