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Beld Errmon
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Posted - 2015.08.16 02:18:00 -
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You've really gotta have a strong spidey sense and eyes in the back of your head to avoid getting rammed while dropshiping, as long as you see them coming you'll generally be fine.
On the flipside there are times I can morally justify ramming someone, sometimes its unavoidable in a dogfight, both pilots get so absorbed in shooting each other and staying on top of the target that it just ends up happening. And then theres what i call fancy fliers, who will flop and swing about spending 90% of their time being fancy instead of fighting, then run away the moment they take more than a few shots in a row. Those pilots I will ram with glee, because anyone that will only shoot at you while your back is turned is so risk adverse that they need to be punished harshly.
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Beld Errmon
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Posted - 2015.08.16 03:10:00 -
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Louis Domi wrote:Beld Errmon wrote:You've really gotta have a strong spidey sense and eyes in the back of your head to avoid getting rammed while dropshiping, as long as you see them coming you'll generally be fine.
On the flipside there are times I can morally justify ramming someone, sometimes its unavoidable in a dogfight, both pilots get so absorbed in shooting each other and staying on top of the target that it just ends up happening. And then theres what i call fancy fliers, who will flop and swing about spending 90% of their time being fancy instead of fighting, then run away the moment they take more than a few shots in a row. Those pilots I will ram with glee, because anyone that will only shoot at you while your back is turned is so risk adverse that they need to be punished harshly. The only time to back down from a fight is to go back to your supply depot to get more ammo, also pilots aren't really prone to accidentally ramming each other...
My vast experience in ADS dogfighting begs to differ.
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Beld Errmon
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Posted - 2015.08.16 14:53:00 -
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Leovarian L Lavitz wrote:I prefer shooting down dropships from the comfort of my Lav
Personally i like to shoot lav drivers out of their moving vehicles :)
Dropship LAV chase scenes are fun
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Beld Errmon
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Posted - 2015.08.16 15:59:00 -
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In the meantime though you'll learn to see the dropship body language, when someone is gunna ram you they tend to telegraph the intent, dodge em, reload as you come about and nail them. If you aren't already I highly suggest leveling up the incubus and getting into rails, great for slaying ADS pilots who can only use missiles.
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Beld Errmon
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Posted - 2015.08.17 01:02:00 -
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Louis Domi wrote:Just got rammed again by a damn Incubus... ****, does nobody have class?
Are you flying a python? cause yeah those will get love bumps from any incubus they get too close to, thats not so much getting rammed, its more akin to getting sand kicked in your face in a duel its not very honourable but you use the tools you have available in a scrap.
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Beld Errmon
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Posted - 2015.08.17 01:07:00 -
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Genral69 death wrote:Louis Domi wrote:Sicerly Yaw wrote:shields are known for being weaker then armor in general terms but especially when it comes to collision, if you want to test this out use an amarr medium frame and a caldari medium frame
jump off of a high structure regular building height should be enough, with the shiled suit simply jump off and see how much damge you took, for the armor suit hold a flux till it detonates then jump and calculate the difference between the damge you took to armor and the damge you took to shields
as for what you said about being rammed with a DS, armor DS will always win a ramming contest at least in most cases with a few exceptions if you know how to deal with it I was actually in an armor Ds... I had a couple in inventory and decided to try em out... Got rammed other DS survived... ahh but strangely of 2 dropships ram each other face to face, neither of them take damage
Its really unpredictable won't will and won't kill an ADS collision wise, I clipped a light pole the other day and flopped upside down onto a roof top, the momentum caused me to roll sideways off the side of the building and land on my landing gear on the road. Grinned thinking "more ass than class" hit the AB and boosted straight up, another dropship just happened to fly over me as I took off really fast, he survived and the impact did no damage to me, didn't get lucky again and the next building I hit killed me.
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Beld Errmon
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Posted - 2015.08.17 03:33:00 -
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yeah, ppl like that are just sore losers, but its all about your own sense of morality i guess, I hate ADS pilots that refuse to fight another ADS, if they run from me and think they can ignore me, i'll ram the ****ers from the sky.
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