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Pvt Numnutz
Prophets of the Velocirapture
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Posted - 2014.08.07 21:33:00 -
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I agree the python really doesn't need the extra 500 shields. It might need it if they introduce em swarms and anti dropship swarms but not before those are put in the game.
@ dust fiend, I'm very surprised that your still moaning about pythons being better. I have encountered a few incubus who were smart enough to actually fit for a gunner and destroyed with it. The rail gun with the incubus skill (not even stacking) makes it perfectly viable against infantry and makes it an absolute monster against vehicles of any kind. Much more so than a python could hope to achieve. Incubus aren't slower than pythons, their speed is exactly the same, in one engagement I had both my python and the hostile incubus burning towards the ceiling and the incubus burned much higher and much faster than my python.
A python is as 'scrubly' as an incubus.
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Pvt Numnutz
Prophets of the Velocirapture
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Posted - 2014.08.07 22:14:00 -
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DUST Fiend wrote:
Incubus are in fact slower, as their listed speed and in game speed implies. An Incubus with an afterburner will move as fast as a Python without an afterburner. They also have the privilege of accelerating slower, and adding any extra HP slows you down even more. Fitting a side gun is all well and good but again, if you want to use that rail vs infantry you're relying on them not having much / any AV presence. Sitting still in a ship that's bigger, slower to accelerate, slower at top speed, and that takes bonus damage from virtually all AV, while having more pronounced weak spots = losing ISK. Also, missiles destroy Armor tanks better than railguns ever will, and they only do marginally worse vs shield tanks than rail guns. The only thing small railguns excel at over small missiles is killing pythons. That's it.
I'm just over here laughing that the easiest most rewarding ship got buffed further.
Listed air speed for incubus 50.00 m/s
Listed air speed for python 50.00 m/s
I don't know where your getting this from. When ever I go to chase down an incubus with an after burner on I don't catch up and then pass him, I don't even gain on him unless he slows the ship himself. Same goes for acceleration speed, every time I encounter an incubus pilot we accelerate and burn at the same speed. Armor doesn't slow you down in the air.
Even with the bonus damage av get incubi are still much hardier than pythons. While they do take more damage they have more HP to compensate and their reps can't be stalled by a milita swarm or hmg.
One of the incubi I encountered with a gunner killed infantry just like a python with his rail, even under fire from several forge guns including myself. He even killed me while I was hitting him. They were both very skillful, they weren't relying on little av presence at all, in fact they were attacking the forge gunners. I don't know if you have ever flown with good gunner's but if you have space to maneuver there should be no sitting still, which is how I fly and how this incubus flew.
A python will destroy a shield tank with two gunner's about as fast as a solo incubus and about the same with the armor tank maybe slightly faster. With a gunner on the incubus the python needs all three to be as effective, with three guns on an incubus a python simply cannot match the vehicle killing power.
Oh and those fin guards count as the weak spot on the python.
Stop blaming pythons for lack of skill or teamwork.
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Pvt Numnutz
Prophets of the Velocirapture
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Posted - 2014.08.07 23:07:00 -
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Atiim wrote:Pvt Numnutz wrote:
Listed air speed for incubus 50.00 m/s
Listed air speed for python 50.00 m/s
That's odd. ProtoFits lists the Python's Air Speed as 75m/s. Where's your list coming from?
From the market info
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Pvt Numnutz
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Posted - 2014.08.09 19:37:00 -
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Derpty Derp wrote:
Large missiles on a tank > everything.
Huh, I broad sided an incubus point blank with my XT-201 and my gunner hitting him with a particle accelerator. All 12 missiles hit and my gunner got 6 shots on him and he didnt go down so I'm gonna say this is incorrect.
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