Suits you sir

All of you people who fit 5 damage mods are silly and are wasting slots.

Stacking penalty mod for Nth module or rig =
0.5 ^ [ ((N-1) / 2.22292081)^2 ]
1 : 1.0000000000
2 : 0.8691199806
3 : 0.5705831430
4 : 0.2829551534
5 : 0.1059926494
note: modules with highest bonuses are calculated first.

This means that if youre using for example a Ishukone sniper rifle with 229.9 damage the damage mods will give you this much increased dmg:
1st: 22.99
2nd: 21.98
3rd: 15.68
4th: 8.22
5th: 3.17

Now tell me how 3.17 dmg is going to help you. It would be a much better idea to fit another shield extender or a precision enhancer that would give you more tank or make you spot people coming up on you from behind.

When I snipe I normally use a advanced minmatar logi with the following modules:

- 3 complex damage mods
- 3 enhanced dampners
- remotes
- ammo
- uplink.

Almost any gun can be fitted when you remove the remotes.

The remotes are there to blow up any remotes I have placed before as a scout or logi and after that to put on choke points or stairs.


With a proto you can add a complex shield extender and some armor.

This makes me sad for my scout suit. Stop it immediately.

I run my minmatar scout as a shotty with remotes. I hardly snipe, it is just a fit I use when I need to countersnipe.

Amarr Heavy Ak.0
2x Comp Damgae Mods
1x Comp Repairs
2x Comp Armor Plates
Thales, Charge or KalTac
SMG
Locus

Yeah I know "lol fatty I can see you" but thats what I want.... shoot at me so I know where you're hiding so I can pop you in da face! Good luck getting past my ~1300 ehp before I take you down.

I like to run around with knives/smg when I'm not sniping. Clearing out a point and securing the hack while taking out any re-spawns is fun. What I lament the most is the lack of a second equipment slot; not that I could afford the CPU/PG. Although, I am rather silly and typically run without shields/armor. I figure that any one who is going to counter-snipe me or find me unawares is going to probably win, unless I see them first.

Yeah, I would really like a second equipment on my scout too so I can use remotes and an uplink.

Without extra shields or armor you will be a one shot kill I think.

More often than not, with shields, I am still a one shot for someone rocking proto snipers. I can survive fights well enough, even some sniper shots from weaker weapons, but 99% of my survival relies on out-flanking, out-strafing and hopefully out-thinking and gunning my opponent. I'm doing it wrong if they've come close enough to kill me. It's extremely satisfying to be able to out-flank a guy who was just coming at me and head shot him.

sounds menecing. Will a heashot due?

Literally, come at me bro (no seriously, my profile scanning sucks on this suit and I cant see you unless you shoot me LOL)

Well its not that bad, but you get my drift haha.

It would take 2 consecutive Thales headshots to take me down in that suit.. and that is easier said than done, weapon has some kick to it. The Charge would also probably do the same, but I dont see myself getting headshotted twice in a row too often unless I am being lazy or distracted lighting a blunt.

To bad, easy prey for counter snipers and anyone that gets close will have a large advantage in a fire fight
Commandos make good snipers due to their higher base health and weapon versatility letting them handle anyone that manages to close the distance
The lower slot count is less of a disadvantage than you first might think as long as you go for headshots

I find it amusing how many people struggle to fit a suit properly to snipe. To those of you fitting 3x CPU upgrades: wtf is wrong with your core fitting skills? You're wasting sooo many low slots. To those of you stacking 5 complex damage mods: really? the extra 2.8% and 1% damage increase is worth it for the respective 4th and 5th modules? Time to take a good look at the opportunity costs here....

EDIT: keep doing what you're doing, you're making it easier for me to collect those tears of yours

I find it amusing how many people struggle to fit a suit properly to snipe. To those of you fitting 3x CPU upgrades: wtf is wrong with your core fitting skills? You're wasting sooo many low slots. To those of you stacking 5 complex damage mods: really? the extra 2.8% and 1% damage increase is worth it for the respective 4th and 5th modules? Time to take a good look at the opportunity costs here....

EDIT: keep doing what you're doing, you're making it easier for me to collect those tears of yours

To stack Complex Mods, PRO Weapons, PRO Equipment, I'm not running a Logistics. I remove the CPU upgrades if I can fit something else instead, but last I checked my PRO Medium still needs them, there's nothing else to fit in to Low Slots as a Sniper anyway, Armor is useless, KinCats is a different class of sniper, so what else am I meant to fit?

indeed, get your core skills sorted first, 3 cpu enhancers is really idiotic.

Sniper fitting is the only fit I'm running my CPU upgrades on, even at that they're basic (MLT even, I can't remember) and Dampeners are completely useless and broken, core skills are all sitting at 3 and 4 right now.

but how far have you levelled up your core skills?

Re-Read what you just quoted

sorry you already answered, mine are 4,5,5 currently saving SP for combat engineering 5 so it will be 5,5,5. No more fitting issues :)

so far the only fit i've seen posted here that I found viable is the heavy sniper, and he's right with that degree of hp it's quite hard to bring them down in a single shot.


my general style of sniping is between his and the standard scout sniper...of course I also ground snipe, and front line snipe. I generally don't snipe like any other sniper who has posted in here.

so far the only fit i've seen posted here that I found viable is the heavy sniper, and he's right with that degree of hp it's quite hard to bring them down in a single shot.


my general style of sniping is between his and the standard scout sniper...of course I also ground snipe, and front line snipe. I generally don't snipe like any other sniper who has posted in here.

Ground sniping can be a lot of fun. I typically try to put myself close to the enemy and if I have to, I'll drop to the ground for some kills. It really depends how the flow of the battle is going. If I find a sweet spot that I can just pick off redberries, that's the best spot. Sometimes, I don't even go for kills. Watching redberries panic when they're hit by pot shots is amusing as well as disruptive to their fighting.

Sniper fitting is the only fit I'm running my CPU upgrades on, even at that they're basic (MLT even, I can't remember) and Dampeners are completely useless and broken, core skills are all sitting at 3 and 4 right now.

so far the only fit i've seen posted here that I found viable is the heavy sniper, and he's right with that degree of hp it's quite hard to bring them down in a single shot.


my general style of sniping is between his and the standard scout sniper...of course I also ground snipe, and front line snipe. I generally don't snipe like any other sniper who has posted in here.