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Thank you!

SpoilerI peed my pants laughing because I still can't get it to work...not real pee though just the figurative kind.

Edited, Jan 29th 2014 8:55pm by rdmcandie

Ya once your ships reach a certain size it doesn't really matter because pretty much anything over a battleship doesn't is to big and to slow. Also Orbiting is actually dangerous in capital fights because you want to stay in range for support sometimes you want to switch mods from damage to tank and vice versa if you orbit you can bump lose remote repair ranges, and access to fitting bays.

It is more important for subcapitals though. If you think of the ship size not as the physical size, but imagine a sphere that encompasses the whole ship. That is technically your "size" in space called signature radius. Basically the smaller you get and the faster you go your signiture shrinks to*. Allowing you to evade damage from missiles, and be harder to score direct hits on (those glancing off armor blows) from turrets (this is true on all weapon types, and the benefit is amplified as weaponsizes directed at you increase)

*Certain mods like shield and micro warpdrives can increase your signiture radius...the Drake Battlecruiser can be fit to be larger than Dreadnaughts (Capitals) despite being 2 hull sizes smaller...and no there is no benefit to doing that unless you want to be hit hard by weapons 2 times larger than your ship class.



Edited, Jan 29th 2014 10:27pm by rdmcandie

Ya I forgot to mention that. Flying straight at something no matter how big or how small will turn you into space dust pretty quick. Unless its missiles, missiles work with explosion radius but on a similar principle. Instead of tracking time, they have an explosion radius different size missiles explode faster or slower. Light Missiles will explode and fill their radius really quickly...these are good at hunting smaller ships...Cruise Missiles explode more slowly and are poor at hunting smaller ships because the small ship can move out of the radius fast enough to minimize damage. (again all relative to Signature size, not actual ship size as some mods can make your ship "bigger" than it actually is.)

(Just of note the Turret mechanics also apply to drones as well small drones good at tracking shooting small ships, big drones better at dealing damage vs bigger ships they can hit as smaller ships can out run drones, and be harder to track)

Edited, Jan 30th 2014 4:25pm by rdmcandie

You would probably really enjoy faction warfare now if you are into PVP at all. Can make good ISK, and its largely Frigate/Destroyer/Crusier sized combat. Some escalations do occur though right up to capitals (just yesterday some friends had a Dread/Carrier brawl because of FW escalation).

I'm not real in to PvP.

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Neato! I get my space name on a monument.

(how could I get beaten to the punch with EVE news!)

Edited, Feb 5th 2014 11:48am by rdmcandie

Some names in game if CCP is true to their word...are going to be interesting to see. Probably good thing Icelanders don't speak as the English native language