Okay so I’ve been back to the game for a little while now, probably like a couple months.
First of all I’d just like to point out that I was 100% correct in my assertion that the Federation Navy Comet is stupidly OVERRATED. Don’t get me wrong, I love the ship, I think it’s awesome. My problem with it lies solely in the fact that it is stupidly easy to fit and fly, and requires virtually no skill, talent or brainpower on behalf of the user, and that way too many players fly it (because they lack the imagination or creativity to come up with anything different)
The majority of players who fly it are no-skill clowns, many of whom run 2bil pods with Asklepians, which means not only are they flying a well rounded frigate with over 7k EHP, 2,000ms overheated, can hit you at any range and also has two flights of drones, but it also has a stupidly strong active rep now as well.
Who will then cry and whine when you beat them using simple tactics like a T1 destroyer that can alpha through their little armor tank.
And yeah there will be plenty of dumb stupid people trying to argue with me like they always do. I literally live in low sec right now and kill these crappy Comets on the regular, and yeah I still die to them sometimes too. But you can kill them with a Firetail, Hookbill, Crucifier, Imicus, etc. etc. virtually any navy frigate or T1 destroyer (not even talking about navy dessies because a properly fit one should have absolutely no issues with a Comet) can easily kill Comets with the proper fit and tactics.
With that said, the only thing I hate more than all of these crappy Comet pilots, are the crappy navy destroyer pilots. These Navycat and Navythrasher pilots have to be the most braindead, no-skill, cowards in the entire game right now.
Yeah sure there’s a few of them who are actually good, but it’s so annoying how the majority of them just go out trying to get easy fights. They won’t fight anything that could possibly stand a chance, the only want to fight T1 and navy frigates. It’s disgusting. What really pisses me off about it is that people will go and suicide into these navydessies on a constant basis.
But if I bring something like say, a Wolf or a Claw (yes I fly interceptors in low sec, I know it’s super confusing for some people to comprehend), literally half of these navy destroyer pilots will run away like cowards. It’s the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen. I’m in a 3k ehp frigate and they run away.
First of all, they overestimate their navy destroyers by quite a lot. Secondly, the majority of them are sh1t-fit. Thirdly, they will run away from anything that could possibly stand a chance (assault ship for example)
But the stupidest thing of all is how the FW plexes literally protect and encourage this cowardly behaviour. WHY, you might ask?
Because, let me just explain this real quick for all of the dumb people. A while ago, not sure when, they decided to “fix” FW plexes by making it more “balanced” and I’m not going to say that ALL of the changes they made were bad.
For example, having a plex where T1 and Navy frigates can have fair and balanced encounters isn’t a horrible idea.
But the fact that I can’t bring in a Taranis into a small navy, to fight against a Comet, but these clowns can bring in a NavyCat??? THIS IS A JOKE. This is an absolutely sick joke. First of all, the Comet is arguably overpowered compared to a Taranis (even though the Taranis can still win with the right fit/matchup and good piloting)
The same thing goes for the pirate frigates. No one flies them any more because they can’t into ANY plexes compared to a NavyCat.
Bottom line: IT’S STUPID. And you’re stupid if you think it’s perfectly balanced the way it is. It’s a MESS and it needs to be fixed up a bit. It’s actually embarrassing how stupid it is.
Yeah, I’m not “allowed” to fly Interceptors because of the way the FW plexes are structured, and because peoples brains are literally trapped by the “meta” and they literally get confused if you try and use an Interceptor to fight OUTSIDE of a plex gate.
People have made the stupidest comments to me because I’ve brought interceptors to fight outside of the plex: “hurr durr, that’s not how it’s works!!!”
Um yes it is how it works, I should be able to fight a Comet with my Taranis, I’m not even asking for a fair fight, I’m literally asking if I can fight a ship that’s stronger than me in almost every aspect.
So I sit outside of the scout plex with my Interceptor and then dumb people cry about it. But they don’t cry if a NavyCat doe sit.
That’s how stupid and braindead the low sec meta is currently. It’s an absolute joke.
Anyway I’m sure people will come in here with all kinds of dumb stupid excuses but the fact is I know wtf I’m talking about. A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep. I don’t care about their dumb opinions.