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dont kid yourself anni.

It's summer with nice weather, and you think they are sweating in Zooms basement chainsmoking menthol cigs pushing out a patch?

If any thing goes wrong like a toaster melt down.... I doubt they would recover from such a pricey piece of equipment going down.

Ones just an artist and forum ref.

Don't want to kick the dead horse but anyone else looking forward to Albion?

you really are lost like a freaking politician flipflopping all over the place.

A. Skills are involved
B. Any sort of "free" EP is pay to win in a time based game^1
C. You keep comparing this game to eve when it suits you but then twist it when it doesn't. Maybe we should make a new thread on that.

B. Further explained Noob gets Eve account, Noob saw Mroq in super tanky Astarte/Claymore, Noob wants to fly like mroq. Noob purchases Plex with rl$, Sells plex buys injectable skill to finish off these Required Skills
Command Ships I
Armored Warfare V
Leadership I
Information Warfare V
Leadership I
Skirmish Warfare V
Leadership I
Siege Warfare V
Leadership I
Warfare Link Specialist IV
Leadership Level V
Spaceship Command V
(Racial) Battlecruiser V
(Racial) Cruiser III
(Racial) Frigate III
Spaceship Command I
Spaceship Command II
Spaceship Command III
For  the noob its clearly I win he got the ship he wanted with out waiting.... do you think he will be happy when he loses it?
For me command ships were always kinda end game alt accounts really no point after t3 cruisers came out.
If you dont think thats pay to win then ok please define your Pay to win plan. P2W is a very fuzzy blurry line some say its already been long crossed by eve.

Either way your ep gap isnt your problem is it. Whats really bothering you?

I'm saying you don't need lvl 10 in all skills to be a max assault pilot just lvl 10 basic and lvl 10 of that race gunnery. a few supporting skills and you can easily take down targets in pvp. I dont see what your qq'ing about. Sorry you cant have 4mill ep when you start the game sorry its not eve where you can now pay to win, by draining your alt. That EP in eve comes from somewhere not thin air.

Sorry you want an I win button in a time progression game.

You dont need to max any of the skillsffs, to be competitive or ever successful what does that 1% extra damage help you in most cases not much at all, I would say a bottom line competitive fit for an assault would be basic 10 racial 6-8, 5 hi tech, 5 combat for robot control

Then you look at gunnery depending on the weapons/race you went. If you went lasers ofc fall off/rapid firing/crit/ general firing are all important important. But what does a magnadart arb need falloff for? you get 20 more meters of *** damage. What would a Wasp need  falloff or precision for.

Electronics and Eng, 4 big ones are data processing/Energy man/Accu expans/reactpr expans. I would personaly bump the first 3 up to 10 and put reactor expan at 8 then look at my fit unless your going so crazy fit reactor on an assault isnt an issue more cpu. After seeing what my fit will need I then look at the Optimized/ Improved /Economical skills

With my remaining EP I would Slap in Long distance eletronic warfare to 8-10 and Demob to 8-10 (pre-req jamming lol). I would do this as most of your kills as an assault with a fleet will either be killing of enemy light ewar or demobbing the enemy mech ewar. 

Now you will likely have some EP left over. Depending on your play style you could go for masking, ewar skills, finish off some gunnery, a nexus skill like speed, or even start working on mech skills. The key here is you got 90 of the base fitting skills out of the way. You will be very effective against Lights assaults and even Mechs and Hmechs if you fit right and play your strategy right.

Perception and reality are 2 different things.... Yes Mk2 heavy pvp is a mainstay in this game but look at the #1 pvp player last month. Mainly used an assault. I mainly use assaults. A single 400k ep player can max out all assault bot skills.

Peoples Perception that a Mk2 HM is the be all end all bot, is a logical error compounded by the fact that: Speeds are screwed in favor of un-demobable heavys, a Mech with speed nexus can out run an assault built to kill a Mech. Ranges and robot bonuses in the patch that killed all flavors other than seth mk2.

For sap warfare yes Hm is a preferred tool. But like others have mentioned good pvp'er use scouts, use maskers and understand bots limitations and bonuses. I myself like to solo pvp when I can, I've turned down alot of 1v1s because I don't have the element of surprise or a terrain that suits me.

TL:dr New players focus on end content before they explore the content they could use.

wtf...... sad face

My only gripe with it is unflagged units jump freely while Agressed upon.... Flagged units have to open map.... wait 3 secs of "hang time" hit the center to unit button map flys to you and zooms in.... quickly calculate which is the next closest tpa then speed off that way.

Either make tpa for agressed upon units not tp or let flagged units jump with no extended cool down instability. Its become all to easy for a shield tanked and plated unit to just walk un-worried across an island. They flag on me I hit a tpa they cant jump. They dont flag.... I dont die. Stupid new meta.

Keep the regular Teleports with extended CDs but tpa shouldnt block flagged units and shouldn't add an instability to flagged units.

Why would he preset an arkhe.... but who knows that is possible.

Cool Idea Inda make a post about it so Anni can troll your post with his toxic behavior as well