Poor Buttered Scone. He has no clothes.
Altaen asked if I was interested in expecting TCS into a free clothing service for locals. I told him, why yes, that was something I had been thinking about myself. On some type of small scale at least. The nature of Eve causes me to assume that someone will make an attempt to kill me if I do such a thing casually.
But that is a later task to figure out.
For now I need to fit this beautiful monster and I wondered if I could convince someone else to make something amazing for me. Then I thought, well I could make it a thing and see if people wanted to make fits.
This Rorqual needs new clothes.
And if you do decide to make a fit and dress this Rorqual oh so nice, be so kind as to explain the method behind the madness. There is a lot to learn in a fitting discussion. Instead of the blogger telling the audience how they should fit a ship, I'm interested in the audience creating the fit instead. There are many, many ways to fit a ship. I'm always interested in how other people see Eve.
I consider it a reverse fitting post. Let's see if it catches on. And if so, we'll do some more.
Edit: I was curious what people would do buy they'd like to know what I want to do.
Clones. Tank. And some POSs refueling power.
Battle rorqual! Faction/deadspace heavy neuts plus Ogre IIs... DCII, bulkheads, point, web (x2?), dual XLSB, invuls, hardeners to your taste :P
ReplyDeleteIt's odd how much the habit of not dual tanking sinks in.
DeleteOh, I agree. But as pointed out, its has a massive shoot me taped to its back. Enhancing the 250k structure points to draw in more hostiles before springing any trap appeals... or should hopefully give you enough time to dock up as needed. Hmmm. Must have had station games in mind when I shot off a quick response
DeleteWarp stabs not a bad idea, but like anything that big and slow, its prone to bumpage. What else in the lows as an alternative? DDAs perhaps since your drones are your only source of DPS?
What do you want to do with the Rorqual?
ReplyDeleteKnowing that would make fitting easier.
[High]
ReplyDeleteClone Vat Bay, people will ask this of you.
A cyno so you can call in help?
[low] DCII is obvious first pick.
Besides that I would probably go for max tank/defensive/escape options like energy neutralizers, shield tank, drones (ecm/gecko).
Assuming rorqual is not meant for combat since a SC hotdrop will take care of that real fast.
And yes. I think it needs to be able to live through making clones.
DeleteDo people still use it to repair POSes? At least in WH space we have a fit for that on our Rorq...
ReplyDeleteI've not heard. I guess it could thou a carrier is cheaper and does it better.
DeleteWithout knowledge what you want to do with the qualle, its hard to recommend a fit.
ReplyDeleteSo I see. I shall do an edit.
DeleteYou wanted tank? Here's a brick
ReplyDelete[Rorqual, Shield Tank]
Damage Control II
Warp Core Stabilizer II
Warp Core Stabilizer II
Dread Guristas Adaptive Invulnerability Field
Dread Guristas Adaptive Invulnerability Field
EM Ward Field II
EM Ward Field II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Thermic Dissipation Field II
Explosive Deflection Field II
Capital Tractor Beam II
Capital Tractor Beam II
Capital Tractor Beam II
Capital Tractor Beam II
Capital Tractor Beam II
Salvager II
Capital Core Defense Field Extender II
Capital Core Defense Field Extender II
Capital Core Defense Field Extender II
2.28 million EHP
DeleteBut the clone bay!
DeleteSlap one in and a cyno too if you want. You don't really need 5 tractors do you?
DeleteIf this weren't such a neat idea for a post, and of some interest to me (as an enthusiastic player of the fitting sub-game), I might suspect the OP of being comment bait. The one thing EVE players like to do more than anything, after all, is to tell others how to fit their ships. Bravo!
ReplyDeleteCapital rigs really do open up a new world for fitting.
I was gonest. It is comment bait. But only because I am trying to crowd source these days.
DeleteClone vat bay
ReplyDeleteCyno
Shield Harmon
Active Shield
Evasive maneuvers
Cap remote shield boost
2x omni tracking link
Drone navi
2x adaptive invuln
Em ward
Therm field
DMG cntrl
2x bulk heads
3x CDFE
Plenty of drones.
Idea is to provide clones with plenty of buffer. Also can defend yourself if needed with bonuses drones. Links are there for more ehp and for arrival of friendly fleet.
This is spit ball. Never flown one. Off the wall fit.
[Rorqual, New Setup 1]
ReplyDeleteDamage Control II
Reinforced Bulkheads II
Reinforced Bulkheads II
Capital Neutron Saturation Injector I
Dread Guristas Shield Boost Amplifier
EM Ward Field II
Dread Guristas Adaptive Invulnerability Field
Dread Guristas Adaptive Invulnerability Field
Heavy Capacitor Booster II, Navy Cap Booster 800
Heavy Capacitor Booster II, Navy Cap Booster 800
Clone Vat Bay I
Cynosural Field Generator I
Siege Warfare Link - Shield Harmonizing II
Prototype Cloaking Device I
Imperial Navy Heavy Energy Neutralizer
Imperial Navy Heavy Energy Neutralizer
Capital Core Defense Field Extender II
Capital Core Defense Field Extender II
Capital Core Defense Field Extender II
Gecko x5
Vespa EC-600 x5
2.1 million EHP from EFT before boosts. Almost 5K active tank. 1230 DPS with Geko's, will work on a battle rorq fit next.
Cyno for backup, cloak to hide, neuts and ecm drones to fend off tackle, 15mins of active tank with cap boosters.
Other than Cyno and Cloak though you probably can swap your highs for whatever you need. Hull Rigs give better EHP but I don't want to think what they cost right now.
Stupid Geko's forgot about their m/bit amount....
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