Tackling: Difference between revisions

| style="background:#333333;" | As fitted to military jet fighters, afterburners (or ABs) can be fitted to ships in EVE Online. The afterburner increases your sub-warp speed by a percentage. The afterburner is used by tacklers to close the range to the target faster, to achieve a lock or to get into orbit range quickly.

The Tech 1 module boosts your speed by 115% (thus it doubles your speed plus another 15%). The Tech 2 version boosts your speed by 135%. Faction and Deadspace variations of this module offer further speed boosts (of 140-160%), but are much more expensive and thus not commonly used.

| style="background:#333333;" | The microwarpdrive (or MWD) is a small warpdrive capable of giving a significant speed boost to your sub-warp speed. It's an upgraded version of the afterburner, however it comes with several drawbacks. Unlike an afterburner, a microwarpdrive is extremely effective at getting into, or out of, an enemy's range, but is not at all effective at helping evade enemy fire. An active MWD grants a 500% boost to sub-warp speed, but also increases the ship's signature radius by 500%, making it far easier to hit than its speed would imply. MWDs also consume more capacitor to operate, and having an MWD fitted to a ship reduces the ships maximum capacitor capacity (and thus, indirectly, the ship's capacitor regeneration rate).

The Tech 1 module gives a 500% bonus to speed, at the cost of 500% increased signature radius and 25% reduced capacitor capacity. The Tech 2 module gives a 510% boost to speed, but only 20% reduced capacitor capacity. However, the use of Tech 2 MWDs is often frowned upon, in favor of the Quad LiF Restrained variant, which gives a 505% bonus to speed, 20% reduced capacitor capacity, only 450% increased signature radius (mitigating a little of the evasion problem), and consumes less capacitor than the Tech 2 variant.

 

Faction and Deadspace microwarpdrives are popular on more expensive ships, as while they do not offer great improvements to speed, they offer greatly reduced capacitor capacity and signature radius penalties. They are, however, very expensive and thus not worth using unless you ''know'' you won't lose them.

The tech 1 version of the sensor booster boosts your scan resolution by 25%, while the tech 2 version boosts it by 30%. Sensor Boosters also increase your maximum targeting range, but that's less relevant to tackling. If you put a scan resolution script in the sensor booster (which you should in most cases, as the range will not be necessary), the scan resolution bonus doubles and the bonus to targeting range disappears. So you can get a 50% scan resolution bonus from the tech 1 booster and a 60% from the tech 2 version.

| style="background:#333333;" | This is another module that increases your speed. Unlike the overdrive injector, however, it also makes your ship more agile. Using this module will help you accelerate and align faster, allowing you to reach targets faster, and allow you to keep a closer orbit at a higher speed, making you harder to track and thus harder to kill. Like overdrives, nanos don't require any powergrid or CPU. The downside of this module is that you get a lower amount of structure hit points (HP). In a way this downside doesn't matter though, because, generally speaking, tackling frigates tend to either be able to rely on their shields, armor, and speed for long enough to either be saved by the logi or pull range and escape, or if their armor doesn't hold up and they do enter structure they're pretty much dead anyway.

The sub-warp speed increase from the tech 1 module is 7.84%, with a 13.1% inertia reduction, at the cost of 15% structure HP. The tech 2 module increases sub-warp speed by 9.4%, cuts inertia by 15.8%, and reduces structure HP by 20%.

| style="background:#333333;" | The damage control increases your shield, armour, and hull resistances to all damage, making you much harder to kill. One of the most all-purpose efficient defensive modules in the game, a very much recommended module for any tackler, however it does cost some CPU which can at times be in short supply on frigates. It will also make you much more resistant to smartbombs and drones, two major threats to tacklers.