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Pokey Dravon
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Posted - 2013.11.17 08:41:00 -
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New to EVE huh? Those first few months in EVE are very difficult to handle, mostly because you really don't have the skills to do much that is very meaningful. ISK can also be a problem early on, but trust me, once you get the SP up there, affording a handful of Destroyers for OBs is very easy.
Have you considered looking into EVE University? I'm not very versed on what classes they're currently teaching, but they'll be able to show you the general ins and out to EVE and help you get more used to using your ship. After that if you need some more specific advice on how to launch orbitals I can get you in touch with some people in my alliance who are very experienced in OB support. Just drop Rayne Dravon a message in EVE if you're interested, that's my EVE character that I use to manage my corp.
EDIT: Oh! On a side note. With the upcoming changes to Faction Warfare, EVE pilots will receive LP points for dropping OBs on FW battles.
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Pokey Dravon
OSG Planetary Operations
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Posted - 2013.11.17 09:06:00 -
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Cross Ragweed wrote: Dravon,
Thank you for the kind reply and offer of help. I've also been watching the dev notes on the upcoming FW changes, which lead to some threads here on Factional/alliance run chat channels (which I believe will become popular/needful with proposed FW changes), I pretty much did an inny, meeiny, miny moe (along with my beloved Gallente Logi suite) and found a promising Alliance public chat. After finishing the tutorials, I quickly (maybe way too quickly) jumped into an eve side FW/PvP Corp/Alliance in the hopes that they would be willing to train up a newbie.
So, that being as it may, I may be a WT to you and if so would hope, that for the sake of the small fraction of eve players that care about dust, that we might be allied at least in this cause, i.e. of helping ccp/dust-514 succeed. I think many might agree, that the proposed FW changes, and further/deeper integration of dust/eve is critical to the long term survival of dust.
So I will take you up on your eve contact invite, but will also understand if this is a touchy situation.
Thanks again.
Haha no worries, just send a message from your EVE character to mine and I'll forward the information to those who need to see it. At the very least I'm sure they wont mind sitting you down for a little bit and explain some of the basics to providing OB support. Our EVE side is pretty ruthless, but they've been known to help pilots launch OBs in order to give them the experience without being blapped from the sky.
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Pokey Dravon
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Posted - 2013.11.17 09:19:00 -
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Cross Ragweed wrote:Rusty Shallows wrote:The same weapon mounts can be stacked to one button. Oh help, a million and one things to learn about eve ... thanks for sharing one of those I will now figure out how to do.
On your module rack next to your capacitor, there should be an icon that looks like links in a chain. Clicking that should stack all like weapons together. Keep in mind that the weapons MUST be all identical and loaded with the same ammunition. When you launch an OB you only get one shot, and that means your weapons must be linked together otherwise only 1 gun will launch the OB. Because damage is directly based off of how many guns are firing, you want to make sure you have all of them launching that strike.
Do you understand how OB ammo works for EVE? There are 3 types and they're all a little different from your usual War Barge Orbital.
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Pokey Dravon
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Posted - 2013.11.17 10:01:00 -
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Cross Ragweed wrote:Pokey Dravon wrote:Cross Ragweed wrote:Rusty Shallows wrote:The same weapon mounts can be stacked to one button. Oh help, a million and one things to learn about eve ... thanks for sharing one of those I will now figure out how to do. On your module rack next to your capacitor, there should be an icon that looks like links in a chain. Clicking that should stack all like weapons together. Keep in mind that the weapons MUST be all identical and loaded with the same ammunition. When you launch an OB you only get one shot, and that means your weapons must be linked together otherwise only 1 gun will launch the OB. Because damage is directly based off of how many guns are firing, you want to make sure you have all of them launching that strike. Do you understand how OB ammo works for EVE? There are 3 types and they're all a little different from your usual War Barge Orbital. I do have a bit of a handle on the guns/ammo, and have fitted small hybrid turrets with Hybrid Tactical S (10 rounds each, even though its cheap)
Well I was more referring to the effect you want on the ground with each ammo type. If you already know this please forgive me:
Hybrid Strike: Similar Damage to War Barge OB but over a significantly larger area of effect. Generally the most common OB type ammo .
Laser Strike: Similar area of effect to War Barge OB, but significantly higher damage and fire rate. A direct hit from this will kill any HAV regardless of their defenses.
EMP Strike: Largest area of effect, wiping out all shields and deployed equipment. fairly certain you can't actually kill anyone with this strike, but it has some specific uses.
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