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Caracals are ready, 4 of em to be exact.  I know Sky, viin, and nix all wanted 1.  Would you like them escrowed?

Whatchoowantforit? I don't know what escrow means :)

escrow basically means you come to whever i put and pick it up.

Sure, escrow would work great!

Thanks!

Sounds good to me, what do I owe you? Thanks a lot for whipping these out for us.

Whatever you feel like giving or some time guarding our next mining op in lowsec :)

Escrow me!
I'll be on tomorrow night.

What missiles do most people use with Caracals?

kinetic

Reason ?

I am asking because I am still not sure if I should use EMP or Sabot projectile ammo.

smalls?

As small as they get, yes.

Autocannons to be specific.

Sorry meant small missiles? or using one of the upgraded or loading heavy's?

IMHO the bigger the better, esp. with a cruiser.
Rockets won't make a dent into most of the tougher NPC frigates.

I use exclusively kinetic heavy missiles on my Caracal for NPC hunting; the Caracal gets a nice big bonus to kinetic missile damage (5% or 10% per level of cruiser skill) which causes it to outstrip thermal missiles in terms of overall damage. I don't like swapping out ammo in the middle of battle.

I use heavies because I need all five racks firing heavies to kill a 185k-bounty battlecruiser rat in a reasonable amount of time (those bastards have some tough armor tanking capabilities) and I can just fit a target painter and float a pair of drones to counter frigates.

I use Assault Launchers with regular missiles (kinetic as well) against Frigate NPCs. Since heavy missiles don't do *that* much more damage to frigates, and the assault launchers launch more missiles in the same time span, I can take out enemy frigates fairly quickly.

Once I start getting cruiser+ targets I'll switch back to heavy missiles.

Look into a Ballistic Control System I; they speed up the ROF of a heavy missile rack significantly and also add damage. With rapid launch 2 and a BCS, my missile racks fire every 12 seconds, which is comparable to a standard rack, and my missiles get another +7% damage, which makes up for the few seconds of difference.

Also, range. 50km vs. 20km :)

When you're fighting exclusively frigate targets, a heavy rack is overkill, but once you get mixed cruiser/frigate targets...

For projectile ammo I use EMP on anything except other minmatar.