I have been looking at C5 capital escalations, using Jack Miton's 'Like a Baws' guide. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=144954
Jack also has a Carrier + Battleship guide at https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1808468#post1808468
I have run some sites on singularity with a corp member on the other side of the world, and really need to get organised to run them on live. Sometimes real life gets in the way, and I am currently the junior partner (skillwise) in the C5 sites.
To run the sites, as I understand it:
- Roll open wormholes.
- Set up your booster ships (x2)
- Triage Archon warps in (escalation 1)
- Webbing, target painting Loki warps in, calls targets.
- Siege armor dread warps in (escalation 2), blaps sleeper battleships for roughly 10K DPS, using anti structure guns (hence the need for webbing and target painting). Things get hairy.
- Once most battleships are down, warp in armor dread #2 (escalation 3) (and maybe a second webbing loki). Blap stuff easily.
- Warp in Carrier #2 (escalation 4). Rush to kill something before the dreads do.
- Maybe a ECM boat to keep a trigger alive but harmless. This allows a full site respawn (or so I have read - not confirmed yet).
- Salvage and loot with Noctis and Mobile Tractor Unit, while the DPS wing goes to the next site.
If you fail, you will lose your fleet. If your triage Archon disconnects, say good by to billions of ISK. Sleepers remote repair each other, so high applied DPS matters. The tricky point I found in the above method was the second escalation. We want to get the number of sleepers down before the logi runs out of capacitor.
Assuming you want to keep the site alive, salvage this site while the DPS squad does the next site, then 5 pilots in a DPS squad, 3 ignored alts (Boosters and ECM), and a salvager. Lets call it initially 10K DPS for dread #1, ramping up to 23K DPS by the time second dread and carrier land. Including concurrent salvaging, this is moderately comfortable for 3 players with alts.
With the new capitals, there are some changes.
Firstly, it wont be a triage Archon landing, but one of the new Force Auxiliary capitals. As a guess, it will be the Amarr one for increased armor resists.
The next question is what will be the preferred DPS platform vs battleships? I have read that CCP want dreads to be the 'in your face' DPS ship, doing 2-3 times what a battleship does. Different bloggers are suggesting 2k or maybe 3k DPS vs battleships. In comparison, I am reading about (but do not yet fly) 1.5k DPS Vindicators.
However, another ratting carrier pilot I know claims 3k DPS with 13 fighters (and he doesn't have full skills yet). So one of the following will happen. Carriers will remain the preferred anti battleship platform, or dreads will do more than 3k, or carriers will be nerfed.
The siege armor dread won't be able to use an anti-cap gun, but will need to use a battleship gun. Guesses suggest DPS in the 2-3k range, but ... will carriers do more?
Assuming that there will still be capital escalations, and that a force auxiliary escalates the site (neither a forgone conclusion), and that once I get 10K DPS on field with only 2 capitals, I can then smash the site out no problems, I still see something for the new capital escalation site running.
As a rough idea:
- Roll open wormholes (no change).
- Set up boosters (plural, no change).
- Triage Force Auxillery warps in (little change). Will this escalate?
- Probably the webbing Loki (webbing range still helps)
- 3 Bling battleships to clear most of the first escalation.
- Highest DPS vs battleship of armor carrier (probably Thanatos) or Dread
- Capitals to complete escalations in turn. (possibly by BS pilots swapping to capitals)
- Maybe an ECM to keep the site alive (assuming this still works - I heard that CCP wanted to stop this)
- Salvage and loot with a Noctis and MTU.
I have chosen armor, it is what I am most familiar. Given the setup and not automatically triggering escalations, then maybe shield might also be OK.
I have some experience with what I am talking about, but not enough. There will be holes in the above speculation. Feel free to poke holes in it.
For lesser skilled pilots trying boosting, I sometimes use Gnoboosts. Put whatever useful links that your well skilled booster does not have. It is replacement tanked, and I would much rather lose it than the rest of the fleet.
[Gnosis, Gnobooster]
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