Yo, as many of you appreciate, the sniper is an excellent fighter, especially in the huge and vast fields where we carry out many battles.

As most of my fellow capsuleers will understand, range plays a huge factor in determining our combat distance during an engagement. But there are times when we push the threshold, and try to engage the enemy in the fall off range of our weapons.

As a general rule of thumb, I have always considered the sniper's "optimum range" to be somewhere around 100-150 meters. However, I have been perplexed when I managed to kill a moving target at 230m. 0.o This pushed me to experiment the range of the sniper, given how CCP has provided a stat for that.

The longest kill I have effectively done was at 360m, and moving. I was like when I saw the 50+ points kill, I was like whoa, that's new. One thing to note though, was that I had to track my target a little ahead of the trajectory, kinda like real life snipers have to do when executing a kill at super long distances (leading the target), so I am not sure if a bullet travel time exists, or the unfortunate player effectively landed on the instant shot trajectory the moment I pulled the trigger.

All in all, the sniper weapon is a lot deadlier than I had imagined, expecially at extreme distances. Starting to make me skeptical if the sniper even has a range limit. And most importantly, should CCP implement a sort of optimum range and fall off range system of sorts in the same spirit as EVE Online?

So, what is the longest kill you all have have executed? Let the braggins begin!

P.S., although sniper is the long range weapon by excellence, post other weapons as well if you have managed to do it (Tank guns, turrets, etc.).

I've gotten a shot where I was working with 3 or so pixels for the kill. Translation: pretty frickin far.

And that was with a real sniper rifle. Not one of those blast-you-from-orbit rail guns.

--GmE

I need to pay attention to distance... but I have counter-sniped another sniper at the range where they are completely hidden by the environment. Thank you spotters.

All I had to go by was the hit-indicator.