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Gh0st C0de Spirit Collective 55	Posted - 2013.10.03 20:07:00 - [1] - Quote I am a scout. It is not something I chose to be, I just am. I know, you're saying "you skilled into it" but that's not what I mean. In every game I have played where one kills things with weapons, whether laser beams or bows, I play a lightly armored, highly mobile, stealth based character that focuses on taking people out from concealment in one or two blows. I focus on traps, sabotage. espionage and deceit. I love it. Perhaps it is due to the fact that my professional life demands a high degree of integrity, honesty and transparency that I so enjoy being the proverbial snake in the grass in games. I don't know. I just do. That being said, I'm rather new I am not the best scout out there. There's a whole scout leader-board to tell you this. Check out the thread. I am teetering at just under 5 million SP. I generally do very well in regard to war points in public matches, over 1000 consistently if I'm not getting proto-stomped. However, I just switched to an advanced suit and I am leaking ISK like a busted oil can. just recently finished with most of my core, shield and armor upgrades. I have most modules I use up to Advanced and all of my weapons up to rank 3, I am something of a jack of all trades with weapons as I have many fittings for different ranges and utilities. My advanced scout fittings cost ten times as much ISK as my basic fittings, but I barely perform any better, perhaps one or two fewer deaths on average. As such, going 12/10 with 1600 no longer nets me a 200k ISK profit.... going 14/7 nets me a 20k ISK profit. Often I will break even or lose the price of two fittings or more. As such, I have made a Dragonfly scout that is exclusively CQC based (Scram Pistol and Nova Knives) stealth tanked and uplink toting that I call "El-Cheapo." This fitting costs 2400ISK and even if it dies 20 times (no, I've never actually lost 20 clones, this is hypothetical) I turn a huge profit. I bought a single Aurum proto suit and managed to go 14/1 with my only death being to a sniper with an ishukone. As such, I think my playstyle is working fine. I was just able to use those extra low slots to slap armor plates on.I don't play any differently. Though there are times I will get reckless and suicide remote explosive a group, usually as a cheap fitting. Now, I am not too proud to ask my fellow scouts if my fittings might suck. I may just stick with El-Cheapo until I have the ISK for a prototype suit, but ideally I can learn a thing or two about making my advanced fitting more survivable. I have six basic fittings, though I have a few of each with varying equipment modules. (A Link scout, a RE scout, and so forth.) I list them in order of how often I use them.... Although El-Cheapo is making his rise lately. 1. Hacker Scout: High Slots: 2 x Shield Extenders, Weapons: CRG-3 SG, M512-A SMG, Basic Locus Grenades, Equipment: Stable Drop Uplink, Low Slots: 1xProfile Dampener, 1x Cardiac Regulator 2. Flanking Scout:High Slots: 2 x Shield Extenders, Weapons: CRG-3 SG, M512-A SMG, Basic Locus Grenades, Equipment: Stable Drop Uplink, Low Slots: 1xProfile Dampener, 1x Enhanced Reactive Plate 3. Sniper Scout:High Slots: 1x Light DMG Mod, 1x Precision Enhancer, Weapons: NT-511, KLO-1 SP, Basic Locus Grenades, Equipment: Stable Drop Uplink or Nanohives, Low Slots: 1xProfile Dampener, 1x Range Amplifier 4. Assault Scout:High Slots: 2 x Shield Extenders, Weapons: Toxin AR, Nova Knives, Basic Locus Grenades, Equipment: Remote Explosives, Low Slots: 1xProfile Dampener, 1x Enhanced Plates 5. El-Cheapo: High Slots: 1 x Shield Extender, 1x Precision Enhancer Weapons: KLO-1 SP, Nova Knives Basic Locus Grenades, Equipment: Stable Drop Uplink, Low Slots: 2x Profile Dampener 6. Tank Scout: High Slots: 2 x Shield Extenders, Weapons: CRG-3 SG, M512-A SMG, Basic Locus Grenades, Equipment: Stable Drop Uplink, Low Slots: 1x Enhanced Reactive, 1x Enhanced Ferroscale Do I have a fitting problem... or are our suits just not cost effective compared to our death rate? I don't claim to be a dust master...it's only been two months and I have grad-school and a job, I am truly open to constructive criticism and help.
Gh0st C0de Spirit Collective 59	Posted - 2013.10.04 01:44:00 - [2] - Quote Lt Royal wrote: On most of your fittings you say you're fielding a Profile Dampeners. Firstly IGÇÖd like to ask what level Profile Dampener are you running and what skill level of scout suit do you run/have? Secondly; could you possibly update your OP with detailed leveled modules so us fitting gurusGÇÖ can make iterations upon your current fittings. The reason why IGÇÖm asking for this information is because you may not be reducing your scan profile enough to be unscannable to to various Handheld Active Scanners and in so limiting your overall fittings with possible waisted slots, which could then be used for other viable moduals. With that said; your Hacking fitting would be more effective with the use of Codebreakers to increase your hacking speed. I get that you're trying to use the Profile Dampener to avoid being seen enroute to that objective or instillation for hacking but again you may not be reducing your scan profile enough to be unscannable. I will get to updating right now. =)
Gh0st C0de Spirit Collective 64	Posted - 2013.10.05 13:30:00 - [3] - Quote Lt Royal wrote: Update? I listed the level of the modules and the suit types.

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