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RES in particular are a great way to make money, just find them in rings of gas giants in inhabited space. Bring your kill warrant scanner and have fun <buffs nails>
Resource Extraction Site and Conflict Zone (I think).
yeps this is correct
yeps this is correct
Ive seen this strategy around, but in a combat situation, I hate taking focus off maneuvering/firing. When I have the enemy in my sights, i want to rain as much firepower as possible and get the fight over with quicker. Unless you're using turreted weapons I suppose.
Damn, I really liked having that 64-space cargo hold. That's what made the Asp a more lucrative trade ship than the Type-6 for me, especially since it can actually defend my cargo.
Silent run and take a second to do this. This will cause your target to lose his lock on you giving you the second(s) you need to turn off the boosters. When the shields come back online, immediatley pop a SCB and take another second to turn the boosters back on as your SCB is charging.
I once wondered if Optimal Mass had any quantifiable meaning, but haven't seen any test results or noticed any real differences in effective shield strength. The only effect I've noticed is that if you slot cargo above the maximum mass, the shields will fail on power up. Likewise with FSD max mass ratings. One place where I could see a possible advantage would be ramming outcomes. But that requires more testing, and my initial results show that ramming seems linked to ship mass density, more than shield strength, or optimal mass ratios.
It's important to note that both 6A and 5A shield setups are inferior compared to other specialized combat ships which have better shields and better Power Distribution to support those shields. So I am not sure what you mean when you say "MUCH better performance". Can you quantify that please?
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Those shield values are woefully out of date. Most of them are off by a factor of x2. Is this from Alpha?
ups sorry wrong chart
Yeah, kinetics don't do well on shields. Might want to have 4 multi-cannons on the small points, and then two pulse lasers on the mediums. Once you take down the shields with laser fire, you can switch to cannons and shred that hull.
Works better the other way round (for me) - 4 small gimballed pulses and 2 medium multis. Small kinetics take a penalty against slightly larger ships. Choices are yours, of course.
A Vulture with 2 gimballed pulses, can't go wrong..
I don't own an Asp, but I do know they're pretty easy to hit. I would go for something more nimble for combat, the Diamondbacks have a good jump range as well and are much smaller targets to hit.