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General Info

• Special Ability: 5% bonus to Small Projectile Turret damage and 7.5% bonus to tracking per level.

This is a basic T1 setup for use in a PvP-BASIC Hydra Gang.

The rifter is an excellent frigate, with a balanced slot layout, good damage, and excellent speed. They are very popular among Agony pilots. Due to the size of PvP-BASIC fleets, this artillery setup is preferred over the autocannon setup. While the autocannon setup deals more damage, many pilots find the range of the artillery setup allows them to start dealing damage earlier.

Please have several of the following modules in stock at class start location. You will have to adjust the 2 EWAR midslots as needed to balance the fleet so make sure to bring 2 of each of these electronic warfare modules with you per frigate hull that you buy. Because ewar modules are CPU intensive you may want to bring a co-processor along and swap it with overdrive. You will also need to use scripts with some ewar modules (dampeners and tracking disrupters) so make sure to bring along one of each kind of script per ewar module that you buy and bring along.

• J5 Prototype Warp Disruptor I (named 20km warp disruptor)
• J5B Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler (named warp scrambler, 8.6 km range)
• 'Langour' Drive Disruptor I (named 10km stasis webifier)
• F-382 Baker Nunn Tracking Disruptor (named tracking disruptor)
• Indirect Scanning Dampening Unit (named sensor dampener)
• Sensor dampener scripts: Scan Resolution Dampening and Targeting Range Dampening
• Tracking disruptor scripts: Optimal Range Disruption and Tracking Speed Disruption
• Quantum Co-Processor or Co-Processor II - to help fit ewar modules if needed
  
  

Rigs: These are optional, but some of these are extremely cheap to purchase in trade hubs. Next to each rig in parenthesis is the number of calibration points it requires. Rifter has 400 calibration points in total:

• Small Projectile Ambit Extension I (100) - increases turret falloff range, increases turret pg use
• Small Projectile Collision Accelerator I (200) - increases turret damage, increases turret pg use
• Small Projectile Burst Aerator I (200) - increases turret firing speed, increases turret pg use
• Small Targeting System Subcontroller I (100) - cuts targeting speed, decreases shield amount
• Small Low Friction Nozzle Joints I (50) - improves agility, decreases armor amount
• Small Auxiliary Thrusters I (100) - improves speed, decreases armor amount

Note: using several rigs that decrease your shield or armor amount will make you more susceptible to bombs. As such the damage rigs are recommended for this setup.

Setup

Stats (All level V)

• Speed: 1221 m/s
• DPS: 50 (Fusion S)
• Turret Optimal + Falloff: 8.3 + 11 (Fusion S)
• Missiles Max Range: 42km
• Effective HP: 1,681

Lowslot

• Tracking Enhancer I
• Overdrive Injector System I
• Nanofiber Internal Structure I

Midslot

• 1MN Afterburner I
• electronic warfare module
• electronic warfare module

Hislot

• 250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
• 250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
• 250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
• Standard Missile Launcher I

Cargo

• 1000 units projectile ammo - Fusion S offers a good high damage option for artillery, but the choice is yours.
  
• 500 units of light missiles, your choice of damage type.
  
• Both scripts for any electronic warfare modules that use them.

Rigs

While optional, some students may want to rig their frigates.

For the rifter, the following rigs may be useful:

• Small Projectile Locus Coordinator I (increases turret optimal range)
• Small Projectile Metastasis Adjustor I (increases turret tracking speed)
• Small Projectile Collision Accelerator I (increases turret damage)
• Small Projectile Burst Aerator I (increases turret firing speed)

(note that projectile weapon rigs increase power grid consumption - depending on your skills you may not be able to fit 3 of them!)

Example EFT Cut & Paste

[Rifter, Hydra Arty]
Auto-Gain Control Tracking Enhancer I
Type-D Altered SS Overdrive Injector
Type-D Altered SS Nanofiber Structure

Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
[empty med slot]
[empty med slot]

250mm Light Gallium I Cannon, EMP S
250mm Light Gallium I Cannon, EMP S
250mm Light Gallium I Cannon, EMP S
'Malkuth' Standard Missile Launcher I, Sabretooth Light Missile

[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]