Grinder

[Tool of Society]

Got some good testing in today and I've decided to fail the two vindis.

Pros
More dps spread in NCOs allows for quicker completion (each vindi can handle a frigate well).

I can assign heavy drones from the nestors to the vindi allowing for effectively a second drone bunny.

More overall dps on Deltole in OTA.

When I got it working right overall dps was higher but only slightly faster times.


Cons
Awful range means I was wasting a lot of ammo at times

Aggro has been absolutely stupid. Every single OTA I did with the vindicators the NIarjas would instantly switch to the loki regardless of the entry order or if they were already being shot. For the first time ever I was perma jammed at the start for the first wave in four OTAs in a row. That's with a loki that has 32 sig strength with two of those starts only being 2 niarjas. I had similiar issues last night with jams and niarjas changing targets. Soon as I switched back to domis the niarjas acted like normal and were no problem.

Micromanagement requirements means that I end up doing less dps at some points.

DPS is nerfed because of a warp speed rig requirement to keep up with my fleet. Without the t2 warp speed rig my fleet is noticeably slower arriving on sites.



Overall it's too much effort for too little return.

[iThirdAge Solette]

Micromanagement requirements means that I end up doing less dps at some points.

Overall it's too much effort for too little return.

thats exactly what i mean, when you have more stuff to worry about your dps will be lower than what it looked like on paper due to not being able to manage everything

however, to get the same stats as he does on those drones, youd have to pimp every domi. his fit is dirt cheap and super effective.

my fleet costs in total about 3.5B, the fleet ToS uses would cost ~6B (just an estimate) for the hulls only.

EDIT: but obviously, armor is better than shields in this situation