Comments on: My Boss Is a Jerk

By: winter

winter — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:35:22 +0000

I think I’ll wait to see what happens with the next patch where they alter the missile skills. I’m keen to try some level 2 missions in my merlin just to see how badly I get spanked ;-)

By: Zxyrox

Zxyrox — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:52:10 +0000

Wait till you get to play with the caracal :) missile barge! HO!

By: Inhibit

Inhibit — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:08:02 +0000

for small hybirds.. 150mm rails are tops for dmg.. but medium hybrid allows for bigger railguns and better performance. If you look at the dmg/sec ratio, I think you’ll find that a 150mm railgun is on par with a light missle (assuming every shot hits, which it wont). Skills for those guns helps to decrease the miss rates, as well as increase the dmg per shot. Still, missiles are better due to not missing.

I can take rats out much faster with my Kessie (4x Missile turrets) than I could in a Merlin. Simple reason being that I can fire of a salvo of missiles, then switch to the next target… usually by the time they get on target, my next salvo is ready. It’s a matter of tools: do you chip away with a hatchet, or slam dunk it with a sledge hammer…. Me personally, I like hammers… hehe.

By: winter

winter — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:36:26 +0000

Meanwhile in Caldari space, I am sent to dispatch a pirate groups leader habitat. I warp in and are presented with 15 ships or so…. 90 or so missiles and 360 iridium rounds later we have 15 destroyed ships and some space pirate leaders. Took me ages…

Do turrets ever get any better? I’m looking at the Assault Ships and they don’t look that much better than my Merlin except that they get better ranges on their small hybrid turrets. Only problem is that my light missiles do around 75 damage and my turrets are currently only doing 15 or so. So even though I can get 4 turrets and 1 missile launcher, I’d say my merlin with 2 of each will output more damage… Are there more specialised small hybrid turrets that do a lot of damage? Railguns perhaps?

By: Stormwaltz

Stormwaltz — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:27:51 +0000

Heh. They updated that one. Used to be he’d be sitting a brief jump away from the station, nothing around him, just one lonely, pathetic little ship. I always had unhappy images of some chubby, sweating otaku style geek in a pod wallpapered with pictures of boobies.

By: Inhibit

Inhibit — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:19:52 +0000

It’s becoming epidemic in nature… as I had a mission to hunt and “Terminate without severance pay” someone for that very thing.

Porn’s incidious tendrils seem to be afflicting many in the workplace.