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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Galactic Skyfleet Empire
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Posted - 2014.04.07 18:40:00 -
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Exactly what Fox said. But also, even more important than pure skill (even tho that is what they look for) is reliability. PCs happen at all hours of the day and if you are likely to be easily reached and ready to jump in at a moment's notice, you're going to get in.
However, don't think PC means immediate millions in your pocket. Sometimes you lose PC and that means 0 isk and an average loss of 2-4 and sometimes 10 mil isk. Those are the odds you have to take.
Squad up with your teammates as often as you can. Work well with that team and your name is going to get tossed around. Even squadding up with your alliance is a great way to get your name around and score some PC's from your family corporations.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Galactic Skyfleet Empire
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Posted - 2014.04.08 14:19:00 -
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Let me start by saying if you are not proto skilled in uplinks, its very unlikely you'll be taken. It's not prejudice of them, its entirely because these corps you're fighting literally have billions of isk. Running proto all day long is nothing to them and when you are in subpar gear against fully stacked proto teams, you die really quickly. Most all PCs I've been a part of ended by one side getting cloned. Having someone that can die really easily is thus considered a hindrance rather than an asset.
However, don't let that stop you. I've also had PC retaliations happen where the corp just needed bodies, no matter who they were to hold the line.
That out of the way, uplinks are high in demand. However, that means you need to get your Amarr Logi to proto with proto uplinks and remain in that suit the entire match. Switching suits will remove the bonus from your uplinks.
And yes, it might be difficult right now to do any PC if your corp currently isn't doing any. If your corp simply isn't PC active, you probably won't see any action as corps (most of them) will always pull from their in house roster first. If you prove to your alliance you are worthy and they do a lot of PC, they might pull you in if a spot is left to fill.
Lastly, it just has to do with organization honestly. Yes, there are a lot of little corps but a lot of the player base just isn't paying attention or doesn't know why they should care. Think about it. How is their owning molden health today really affecting you? It's not. The game goes on. I've been here since chrome and never paid any attention to politics until about 2 months ago. Until it has more impact on the game as a whole, it really won't inspire much of anything from the player base.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Galactic Skyfleet Empire
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Posted - 2014.04.08 14:44:00 -
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Also vehicles. I hate vehicles personally but that's just because anything I get behind the wheel of goes boom. (horrible pilot/driver right here) but many corps desperately need good vehicles. Both pilots and tankers. Since the most efficient way to counter tanks is another tank, having a tanker there to at the very least stay away from infantry is just that many more clones to help win the battle. If you have a liking for vehicles, that's a great way to get into some PC battles, however realize that you do it at the sacrifice of bettering your infantry skills. It's not cheap to go into vehicles sp wise.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Galactic Skyfleet Empire
710
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Posted - 2014.04.08 18:07:00 -
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Arkena has much more guidance to give you than I can, but I will put input here for your base suit. You should remain in your Amarr Logi suit for the entire match for two reasons.
1. Your bonus is tied to that logistics suit. Switching to another Amarr suit will not maintain that bonus (this may change if CCP ever gets back to us on how they were intended to work, but as it is today, switching out removes your bonus)
2. If you're in PC, you're in one role. ONE. If you're a heavy, that's all you are, a heavy body to fill a doorway, soak up bullets and get'sum. If you're an uplink logi, that's all you concentrate on.
You're not to be a jack of all trades (that's great for pubs). In PC, they picked you for a very specific skill and that skill is what they need out of you. If I were brought in to be the uplink party, my job is to lay uplinks in strategic locations, not die and always keep an eye on them. Because uplinks are vital, my uplinks are going to go down (either from use or from getting taken out by the enemy). Therefore, my job is not to engage, though it might be to defend a very critical spawn point for a given map, but to lay them down and not die. Period.
My team doesn't care if that one redberry is alone and I could shoot him from the rooftop. There are 5 other guys down there to take care of him with a logi to heal and revive if needed. I'm doing a disservice calling attention to myself on the roof/around a corner/etc where other uplinks might be. Great way to get an orbie called on you or even a dropship called in just for you to put your whole team at a disadvantage. The only time I change loadouts or stop uplinking is if SL says to. No rambo.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Galactic Skyfleet Empire
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Posted - 2014.04.08 19:33:00 -
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If you switch to another amarr logi suit, you will still maintain that bonus.
I second the complex shield extenders. I run them on all my logi suits....actually all my suits.
Between 2 suits, I can almost put down 20 uplinks just by myself. You goal is to get them in strategic locations that are good distances from each other to avoid a single orbital taking them out in one sweep, and also hopefully in areas that can't be orbied. This won't always be possible and sometimes there are 2 key points that are somewhat open but let your team hit boots first immediately so that they overwhelm anyone trying to take over areas they thought were 'clear'. Those uplinks will need to be replaced often. The idea is to place 2 uplinks in cross position so if they try to focus in on one, they're blindsided by the other and vice versa. It creates a situation where spawned in members flank for each other automatically.
I'm assuming you know this already, but if not, be aware that the direction you place an uplink is how they spawn in. This is very important to keep in mind for that cross position I talk about above.
If I were called in to drop uplinks, I'd run my first suit stocked with as many different variant uplinks I could carry. Lay them out strategically and let my team do their thing. Then safely get to a supply point, restock a suit with more uplinks (here your choice would have to be again completely different variants or some backups of the same already dropped) and a rep tool. Then its just surveying. Are my uplinks still there? Did my team use up all of one already? What position lets me put back down the most used? Etc. And if called in by my SL, I have a rep tool on me to jump down/run in and provide back up heals in a pinch.
I do actually pick up a few people in battle when I'm called in as a healer but it is very very rare and more beneficial to let them spawn back in than switch off my rep tool for even a second.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Galactic Skyfleet Empire
714
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Posted - 2014.04.08 20:35:00 -
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I would wait on that repairer then. Like stated before, when you depend on LP gear, unless you can hoard a LOT of that one item, it can get you in a super hairy mess. I have a crap ton of logi suits for each situation. Scrolling through that is really not efficient. If you happen to die and/or run out of a specific item, you can't really spare the time to restock that suit in the middle of a fight where every single precious second counts.
Protip. Before a PC battle, put a 'A_' in front of the suits you will be using in a PC match. It will put it at the very top of your feed, so no scrolling. You shouldn't have to choose between more than 2 suits, 3 at max. If you must use LP items, make it only one of the 3 with a backup equivalent of it not LP. That means if you chose to rock a suit with an LP complex hardener and run out, have a back up suit of the exact same type with that repairer replaced with a plate.
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