So here I am, flying 20 jumps back home in my pod. Why is that?
Because I suck.
No I really do. the past few weeks I've been flying nothing but
Nano ships. For those not familiar with what a
Nano ship is. Its a ship that's fitted for speed and long range damage. You sit outta "scram range" and kill the other guy before you run outta cap (due to
MWD usage).
Ive been quite successful "
Nano-
ing" recently. Ive taken on much larger ships/gangs and actually won, or at least managed to drive them off. But the best thing about
Nano-
ing is that you can nearly always escape should the proverbial shit hit the fan.
There are situations of course where escape isn't always possible. For example,
Rapiers webbing you,
Nueted by a
Curse, scrammed by a frig while being jammed by a
Drake (
Yeh, seriously), scrammed by a frig while his
Scimatar buddy keeps him alive from 50km away... But most of these situations can be avoided if your smart/cautious.
Unfortunately for me, I'm not very cautious.
A really good example of why fighting in scram range is a really bad idea while soloing just happened to me.
I was out roaming in my Claw. I
haven't flown the Claw in a real long time and it was quite refreshing to fly an interceptor again. I roamed pretty far, as it was the early morning, and ended up in a system I used to visit often.
Dantumi.
Now in one of the belts I spot a named Thorax. I normally
wouldnt engage a Thorax at all, but this guy is ratting... has his name on his ship (which is generally considered to be a bad idea) and after a quick check of his info I see hes only a few months old.
OK free kill.
I warp to the belt. There he is, at zero shooting the rats. I
immediately tackle him and begin to fire. The thorax pilot
doesn't do much at first..
"Perhaps he thinks I'm a rat?" I thought to myself.
I continue to fire while orbiting as close as I can. The Thorax enters armor... then he decides to lock me. He releases some
Valkyrie Is ands send them to attack me. They
don't hit me much, I'm small, fast and they cant track me very well.
I'm still pretty confident I can win
until the worst possible thing happens. He WEBS and SCRAMS me, and a quick check of my combat log I see hes started firing light blasters at me.
After that, I'm toast. Nothing I can do now. My
MWD is shut off, and hes faster than me. I feebly try to get
outta of his blaster range. But its way to late. My ship
exploded and I'm riding home Pod style.
There was no way I could of known he had those, and in a ship like a Claw
there is only one way to find out for
certain.
That's to get in scram range and hope for the best.
that's all well and good, but when you see that 90% of all ships sitting in a belt alone is bait... well you get the idea...
Now there are a few ships that can fight in scram quite
successfully while still having a chance of escape if things go bad. Like the duel prop
Taranis. But not every ship in
EvE has the ability to fit both a
MWD/AB with a point at the same time.
What bothers me, is the fact that
CCP when they first introduced the scram/web changes (Scrams never used to shut off the
MWD, and webs were 90% slowing effect) they said they was because they wanted to give players more of an option when
their webbed. They
didn't want the players to think "Oh,
that's it I'm webbed... no escape now..". The web
nerf was a good thing, but paired with the scram
buff... I think it's made the "Oh shit, nothing I can do here" scenario even worse.
I suck because I knew this before the Claw/Thorax fight even started.
There is only one way to fly now, While soloing or in a small gang.. and
that's Nano. The only solo interceptor worth anything is a
Taranis. I wont be flying a scram range fighting ship for a long long time.
Tada! behold -Unfit Niddy-. named after a memorable Nidhoggur we killed a while ago (that and... its also mostly unfit!)
