[MEGATHREAD] Dumb Questions, Good Answers

[halbarad]

Are there any cruisers/bc that are good anti frig?

Celestis used to be pretty decent. Legionaire's fit is closed to what I flew and killed a bunch of over confident dram pilots (and other frigs). Just too much ehp and Ewar to deal with. Haven't tried it since AF buff but should still work fine.

[kyrieee]

Bellicose is the secret frig murderer

[Me]

I always had success with an Arbitrator built like a non-cloaky Pilgrim.

[Matharos]

Awesome I will give them a try! I was messing around with the vexor last night and it seems ok but with the armour tanking it is just too slow.

Thanks

[fr0ggy]

stupid question.
i dint touch eve in 12 months.
want to get 30 days on my account.
dont want to pay in euro. i want to pay in $. is posible ?
every shop i visit have 60 day gametime, and in account management i can only pay in euro.
i presume i will end up paying in euro, but if someone else knows a better way ...
and i think i read sometime in the past something about an instant 1 day reactivation. is posible, or i need to make a petition like in good old days.

[kyrieee]

Buy a GTC from a third party site, then use the "hours for PLEX" option in account management. If you can't see it then make a petition.

[depili]

stupid question.
i dint touch eve in 12 months.
want to get 30 days on my account.
dont want to pay in euro. i want to pay in $. is posible ?
every shop i visit have 60 day gametime, and in account management i can only pay in euro.
i presume i will end up paying in euro, but if someone else knows a better way ...
and i think i read sometime in the past something about an instant 1 day reactivation. is posible, or i need to make a petition like in good old days.

CCP doesn't sell 30 day timecodes anymore, so you need to either buy the 30d sub from the account management, buy a plex ingame with ISK or get someone to split the GTC with you.

[dzajic]

TMA Concord LP store

I can't seem to find anything from there worth selling. 6% hardwirings sell too little and have meh lp/isk. 5 run capital mods are below 1k isk/lp. Only single run capital mods appear to get anywhere close to 2k isk/lp.

And without even bothering I can find non Concord LP store items where even with 0.8 conversion I stay above 2k isk/lo.

Is there something I'm missing here?

[Durzel]

Is there something I'm missing here?

Incursions not being new or particularly difficult anymore strikes me as the obvious answer.

With respect it could just be that your expectations of ISK/lp are incompatible with the relative difficulty and availability of incursions, and their popularity and how efficiently people run them now (another factor that drives down price).

There was certainly a time when the ISK/lp from incursions was insane, but that boat sailed some time ago.

[depili]

Yeah, pre-nerf incursion lp was flooding in and much of the lp gets put into stuff that rarely dies (titan guns...) so the market got saturated quite fast and prices tanked.

[Daneel Trevize]

I'm with dzajic on wanting to know more. I expected that since the incursions nerf the LP supply dried up and the regularly destroyed things would rise in price, but I've not yet looked myself and think we've only just had our first supers loss this month last night, aka shiny shit just ain't dying like it was in the xmas wars. The only other big buyers that risk them to sustain a demand would be high end w-space peoples, and I don't think they like the implants even if they do snap up the meta cap modules.

[depili]

I'm with dzajic on wanting to know more. I expected that since the incursions nerf the LP supply dried up and the regularly destroyed things would rise in price, but I've not yet looked myself and think we've only just had our first supers loss this month last night, aka shiny shit just ain't dying like it was in the xmas wars. The only other big buyers that risk them to sustain a demand would be high end w-space peoples, and I don't think they like the implants even if they do snap up the meta cap modules.

Even post-nerf there should be enough incursion lp floating around to sustain the around ~10 lost meta cap mods per month... And compare that to the demand at the start where every super pilot wanted the meta mods _now_ ....

[dzajic]

10 lost meta cap modules per month? LOLWTF? I though that in positions where there is no adequate deadspace module a concord meta module would be "mandatory" shopping for any decent supercap? I know non WH dreds and carriers are considered expendable and not pimped but supers?
So there just isn't really a market for meta cap ship modules?

I've just updated my spreadsheets, non concord non FW LP ratios (and paying attention at tag prices while doing that) are still ok. Either people haven't yet flooded the non concord LP market with their 0.8LPs or that ship sailed while I wasn't looking and market is back into normal.

That get's me back to my question. I just don't get it that converting those LPs at 0.8 and going trough tag buying item producing hoops gets me better return than any direct Concord LP store purchase. But if the meta cal modules use is as low as mentioned above it becomes much more understandable.

[Mike deVoid]

Maybe my spreadsheet is wrong but I see plenty of Concord LP store items that go to sell orders with a margin of larger than 2000 isk/LP. Under 10 items for the same rate to buy orders though.

[depili]

10 lost meta cap modules per month? LOLWTF? I though that in positions where there is no adequate deadspace module a concord meta module would be "mandatory" shopping for any decent supercap? I know non WH dreds and carriers are considered expendable and not pimped but supers?

Yeah, supers like to fit local reps...

A titan loss seems to take out 6 meta-guns, a MILF seems to contain 2-4 meta logistics mods. Some pimped dreads and carriers use them, but it seems quite rare, and still it's like 4 RR mods + 2 reps max per such pimped ship. Wouldn't call that anything compared to the initial market of 300+ titans and bazillion milfs wanting their mods.

[Cosmin]

Finally found the dumb questions thread.

During today's broadcast of AT X there was a promo with the bounty system being reworked, soon©.

Does anyone have any more details on that?

[Sponk]

Not unless I've missed a thread naught about how the new bounty system can be abused.

[Cosmin]

Just saw it again, the correct title is "New Eden Bounties - Change is coming".

Although the clip basically makes you think about the player bounty system, I'm afraid it might be about NPC bounties oO

[Mike deVoid]

Bounty changes are intend(TM) and I think that corp/alliance intends to make it their playstyle. Or maybe they just do that now with the shite mechanics already in place.

[spm1138]

Are there any cruisers/bc that are good anti frig?

Flabber (monster - bums frig gangs wholesale), Myrm (similar, provided you don't get your drones popped), Drake with two webs, Cane with two neuts, some Rupture fits.

Mostly anything with good neuting capability and/or weapon systems that ably track frigates.