Prowler Fitting Feedback

[Gerard_Amatin]

@Stanislaw_Borewicz

Also decent fit. Just worth mentioning that decision to use inertial stabilizers and shield extender increases signature radius to 162 vs 112 of OP “Slippery Bastard” making it easier to lock.

That’s correct, but if you can cloak you shouldn’t be lockable anyway.
And if you cannot cloak for whatever reason (object too close, storm that you didn’t spot on the map ahead of time), a good camp will catch you anyway if it takes you 3 seconds to get away.

You’re right that a lower sig radius will give you a better chance. But to me that small extra chance of survivability in a rare scenario isn’t worth giving up my rigs.

@Kronus_Heilgar

@Gerard_Amatin You mention:

if you notice the gate is bubbled/has dictors or smartbombs, you could try turn on the nullifier, then warp to the gate at range from an unexpected angle, such as from an anomaly or belt instead of from gate to gate.

If the nullifier is active anyways, what’s the benefit of approaching from an unexpected angle? Just to avoid the smartbombs?

If the nullifier is active you indeed mostly need the unexpected angle for smartbombs.
I also recommend the unexpected angle as you might accidentally land in their bubble if that bubble happens to be a stop bubble 100km in front if the gate and you warped at range 100km.

If the nullifier isn’t active the unexpected angle will make you avoid getting pulled into drag bubbles or stopped by stop bubbles. And in case they bubbled the gate itself, the likelyhood of a decloaking can waiting for ships coming from your angle is much lower.

I usually don’t use the nullifier to warp towards a gate at 0 to jump. I only do it to warp at range when the gate is too far away from any objects in space to do a Dscan check. The problem of using the nullifier towards a gate to jump is that the nullifier will be on cooldown when you jump. And then what do you do if there happens to be a bubble on the other side?