T1 – Rifter versus Rifter Brawl

Starwalker issued a T1 tournament challenge in corporation chat and Joe Struck answered. He was a younger pilot but that did not necessarily mean much. Zodiac Black had been a younger pilot but had easily won the practice duels. Preparation, combat skills and effective ship fit could easily overcome any training skill deficit.

The decision now was what ship to choose? Close or ranged combat ship? Undocking a Rifter Starwalker headed to the rendezvous point. Joe Struck landed in a Rifter only 4km away and the fight was on.

What was clear immediately was that Joe Struck operated the ship controls much faster than Starwalker as the damage started coming in before Starwalker had even started. The shields disappeared almost immediately and Starwalker decided to overheat the auto cannons and rockets.

The armour repair started to deal with the incoming damage to the armour and Joe Struck’s Rifter was still comfortably in shield. Slowly the shield Rifter started to give way and then it went completely and was quickly followed by the armour and structure. It ignited (http://r1fta.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2639) into a burst of flames and then it was gone. Starwalker had about 20% of armour still remaining.

The combat log revealed the tale of two damages and Starwalker noted the increased damage at the start, followed by a tailing off and then and a slight increase and tailing off again.

Starwalker did not understand why this particular pattern was produced and decided that more combat logs would need to be seen to understand the applied damage mechanics.