Comments on: Taking on Interceptors

By: wensley

wensley — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:32:26 +0000

I enjoy flying Rifters. They fun, cheap, and versatile. What more could I want from a ship? I don’t have the money or skills to be flying around in expensive ships all the time. This goes for a lot of my corp mates to. This is just the way we want to play the game.

As for fitting a microwarp drive. While it would be useful in these situations it would be a hinderance most of the rest of the time. My afterburner lets me dictate range in frigate fights and evade the guns of larger ships.

Finally… macro hauling? Erm. What? Right. No.

By: deathscythe

deathscythe — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:19:30 +0000

Heres an idea… FIT AN MWD? or better yet, fly a better ship?
I never understand tuskers desire to fly crappy ships, no wonder u all macro haul to make isk

By: casiella

casiella — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:51:33 +0000

Great post and very informative (including the discussion here).

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By: wensley

wensley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:32:59 +0000

Leon, thanks so much for the video links. I’m already a big fan of Prometheus’ stuff. I know that he gets a lot of his kills from baiting and I’ve been playing with the same tactics with good effect so far. I’ll check out those other videos. Its definitely best to learn by watching than reading.

By: Leon vanUber

Leon vanUber — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:06:16 +0000

The 180° turn is an essential part, it’s your main maneuver and works best when you add versatility to it.

Judging by your post I take it you already know that bad interceptor pilots tend to warp to belts at zero .

There is an EVE-Tribune article on basic interceptor maneuvers, worth a read, but not really what you are looking for.
http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=2_40&page=6

It is very difficult to describe how to catch an Interceptor using just text. I recommend watching pre QR Blaster Taranis videos, especially the ones made by ‘sakana’ (pins and needles, headcase, un-elite (?) ect, mainly Vagabond videos with like 40% Taranis content). Look for them on the Eve-video section on the official forums.

I also recommend watching the ‘Frigank’ series, part 2-4 especially, also ‘Battle Atron’ by the same guy, ‘Prometheus Exenthal’, some good inty-catching in them.

Older, but also good: ‘Around the Universe’, a Taranis trilogy which can be found in this thread (scroll down for next parts):
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=691566

Hope this helps.

By: Nursultan

Nursultan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:41 +0000

Kane gave some hints here https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2826644557463580695&postID=7765273853457539527&isPopup=true, although you most likely have already seen that.