If logi didn’t exist then every fight would be a brawl. But why is that? Why not just get out there and have fun? I’ve sat in fleets where the FC has repeatedly called for more logi, flatly refusing to leave without them. I’d like to make the opposite argument, that logi are cancer and make the game deeply unfun. If only so they come to the next fleet and you don’t get stuck with a guy like me in the Osprey. Let them know you appreciate their role in the fleet. So please everyone, thank the logi next to you. If you appear nowhere, were you ever really there? “Thank you so much for keeping me from going pop!” But you don’t find yourself on the killboard. Logi are the true unsung heroes of New Eden. No one lives forever, so you make the sacrifice. Broadcasts are coming, they need shields, but so do you. All the while you are managing your capacitor and trying to help others manage theirs. Every jump the enemy seeks to tackle you. I thought it was likely a boring squadron of the fleet. I’ll admit, logi never really appealed to me. These are things a lot of small gang brawlers don’t much think about. Let me tell you: when you are caught in a logi ship, boy are you caught. Even anchoring in general really can be daunting when you’re used to being fast tackle. The capacitor chains (linking remote capacitor boosters) between members to keep all of you cap stable. Let me tell you: flying a combat ship can be tricky, but it’s far less tricky than flying logi for your first time.Īny new-bee can orbit around a target and warp disrupt or scramble them. I’ve never flown logistics ships (repair ships) before, but there I was in an Osprey trying to keep the fleet alive. “Logi or go home,” they said, so I did what I must and reshipped into an Osprey, examined my control panel, and prayed it would all turn out alright. My normal roles of ‘dictor or interceptor were utterly full and the Fleet Commander couldn’t allow it to get anymore skewed less he loses the whole fleet. We had more DPS (damage per second) ships on the field than support. Unfortunately for me, our fleet composition was off. Doctrine fits, everyone was trying to fit into a fleet composition that is balanced enough to win. Thoughts of my ‘catcher led me back to the fleet I had just returned from. You’re really only ever as good as your last bubble. If you miss by a hair and send the head lobbing towards the lord of the house, then you bring yourself shame forever. You do the job right, as it is expected, and nothing is said of it. It’s like being the beheader in feudal Japan. At worst, you just trapped your entire shiny fleet in a bubble with cyno bait. At best, you trap your enemy in the bubble with you, your shiny fleet melts the hapless target, and you all burn free. You’re expected to bubble when a bubble is desired, but most of the time you have to use your best judgment. Burn away or cloak up-you are not there to fight. I’d be lying if I said it was anything other than a thankless job. “You are not there for the kill,” they tell me. He wasn’t wrong fleet ‘dictors seem to be lacking weapons, are usually buffer tanked, and definitely lacking all the utility of one you’d take out for a brawl. I didn’t much think about it at the time. Someone once told me flying a fleet interdictor was doing the Lord’s work. As I lay in wait, quietly hoping for some prey to enter my trap, I come to find myself thinking about normal fleets and the fleet I had just taken the pod express back from. Having woken up in a new pod, with my ego bruised, and my pride now almost non-existent, I decided to lick my wounds and get in my Flycatcher, then set up a camp in the pipe leading towards our precious home here in Goonland.
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