How many of you with Anaconda's, are prepared to risk 10m
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It might be able to outjump my Asp, but I'd take any other ship over it, except for the space cow. The size and lumbering demeanor of the Conda just doesn't appeal to me personally. Guess I have to wait for the Cutter to ride in style in something that barely fits through the letterbox
As for the OP, you're not the only one. Last time I had my Asp wrecked in a CZ because I felt like helping the local indeps against the feds, I ran away, repaired the poor thing, then headed to the nearest hi-tech system, and bought a DBS. Not bringing my long range beauty into a firefight unless necessary
I;ve probably had 3 insurance claims on my conda at various levels....
Right now re-buy on mine sits just shy of 20m ... A couple of my claims were self-inflicted (dark asteroid belt + boost) .... i try to be a little cautious but regularly take hull damage down to around 70% before escaping.
Just have a buffer of cash
Right now re-buy on mine sits just shy of 20m ... A couple of my claims were self-inflicted (dark asteroid belt + boost) .... i try to be a little cautious but regularly take hull damage down to around 70% before escaping.
Just have a buffer of cash
I get it. Your rebuy is 20% of your bank account, heafty!
Just get a bit more in your account like 100 mil and you really won't worry so much about 10%.
Just get a bit more in your account like 100 mil and you really won't worry so much about 10%.
Ive been intercepted by gank squads on many occasions in a modestly equipped tradeconda with shields of around 700MJ and no cells.
4 pips to shields and 2 pips to engines before you submit to the interdiction, immediately select another system and jump. Goodbye gankers.
If you dont want to risk it then fair enough but i can assure you from experience that she is more than upto the job.
And that sums it up.. Surprised Anaconda cmdrs are even remotely scared of Open, we always have the option to high wake.
Exactly.... its about immediately reacting the right way to interdiction with the sequence of actions.... like you said ... full power to shields and engines and immediately just pick a new system to jump to upon drop while fighting the interdiction .... maybe have a chaff ready or something just incase you have non-fixed weapon pirates (npcs certainly)
You can't be masslocked by any ship for a high wake jump
I believe the problem lies with the grinding credits, as a trader i used to grind a lot in the past to get where i am now with my Anaconda. And as someone mentioned, my rebuy is 20% of my bank balance, so it's not the loss that worries me, more the thought of the grind to get it back. When trading, say imperial slaves, i can add 6m to that rebuy, so 16m from 50m, quite a chunk, why risk that much possible grind in combat, when a vulture will do, whith a small cost. This is why i only use my Conda for trading, and even then i go group or solo with it. 16m loss, at say 5m an hour, is still over 3hrs of grinding from A-B. It's the thought of having to do that to replace my loss that puts me off.
But as i said earlier, i am going to increase my balance, so the loss is felt less, then i would use the Conda anywhere i like. But i will look to other than just trading too, such as salvage, ect.
Also my game time is limited to maybe a few hrs a day, as i have health problems and any longer gives me aches and pains, so this is a factor too, 3hrs grinding for me is at least a one days gameplay, or more.
But as i said earlier, i am going to increase my balance, so the loss is felt less, then i would use the Conda anywhere i like. But i will look to other than just trading too, such as salvage, ect.
Also my game time is limited to maybe a few hrs a day, as i have health problems and any longer gives me aches and pains, so this is a factor too, 3hrs grinding for me is at least a one days gameplay, or more.
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Not read the entire thread - so sorry if this was covered, but this here on the first page says it all to me.
I really fail to see why anyone would buy something they won't use.
I lost my first Annie in to a CZ and had to claim to get it back by dropping all the modules and gear and buying back an empty frame for 4.9 million.
It took me a week of playing to get all the gear back on it and pay off my claim.
First thing I did when I got it back, hit a RES for a bit.
It is now set up for full trading and earning me 1.1 million for a 1 jump round trip.
My dock has 3 A rated combat ships that I was able to get through use of my Annie.
There are there to have fun with..... so enjoy them
Not read the entire thread - so sorry if this was covered, but this here on the first page says it all to me.
I really fail to see why anyone would buy something they won't use.
I lost my first Annie in to a CZ and had to claim to get it back by dropping all the modules and gear and buying back an empty frame for 4.9 million.
It took me a week of playing to get all the gear back on it and pay off my claim.
First thing I did when I got it back, hit a RES for a bit.
It is now set up for full trading and earning me 1.1 million for a 1 jump round trip.
My dock has 3 A rated combat ships that I was able to get through use of my Annie.
There are there to have fun with..... so enjoy them
Yeh i do use it, but the post is mainly about only using it safely, for trading or safe modes ect. I use the Conda loads more than my other ships, but take the risk more serious with the Conda.
I even downgraded my thrusters to C class, to reduce the rebuy and give me more money in the bank, i had B class, and in fact the cheaper C class showed more thrust for less money if i read it correctly.
And yes i am one of those type of people that if i spent all my life savings on a Porsche, i would worry about taking it out of the garage, so i would maybe buy a BMW instead and make sure i had plenty left in the bank just in case of an accident.
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'B' class components tend to be the 'heavy' ones... if you look at the stats though you'll see a massive jump in 'Integrity' stat.... meaning they can take a pounding ... they are less efficient than C but the stats say there isn't a massive difference in delivered thrust
50mil of rebuy is not too much, especially if you know how to earn 15-20kk per hour (without any exploits) and your skill allow you to not die at all.
That's why open is teeming with anacondas and PVP degenerated to shockwave damage set ups, kill by station set ups (exploit) and ram2win.
That's why open is teeming with anacondas and PVP degenerated to shockwave damage set ups, kill by station set ups (exploit) and ram2win.
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I've repeatedly risked my Anaconda, which needed to be stripped from anything for maximum Range.
So no Shields, no Afterburner and minimum Thrusters
(it did survive several interdictions at the price of an adequate repair bill)
IMHO it's always the risk/reward ratio, everyone has to make that.
Thus - if your Mission (whatever that is) is worth it, by all means, take her out. If not, don't.
PS.
When it comes to the Anaconda and PvP, the auto-sequencing of dual Chaff (something that I think changed silently sometime in the past) IMHO makes it almost useless in PvP against any better maneuvering Ship that has 2x Chaff equipped.
Turrets will be entirely useless and Gimbals won't help either. Good luck keeping an Anaconda's Nose on a smaller Ship that can basically fly circles around you.
Due to that, I wouldn't recommend an Anaconda for PvP Battles (it's clearly tanky enough to survive just about anything if you know when to "exit the stage" - but to me it just doesn't seem an effective Ship anymore).
So no Shields, no Afterburner and minimum Thrusters
(it did survive several interdictions at the price of an adequate repair bill)
IMHO it's always the risk/reward ratio, everyone has to make that.
Thus - if your Mission (whatever that is) is worth it, by all means, take her out. If not, don't.
PS.
When it comes to the Anaconda and PvP, the auto-sequencing of dual Chaff (something that I think changed silently sometime in the past) IMHO makes it almost useless in PvP against any better maneuvering Ship that has 2x Chaff equipped.
Turrets will be entirely useless and Gimbals won't help either. Good luck keeping an Anaconda's Nose on a smaller Ship that can basically fly circles around you.
Due to that, I wouldn't recommend an Anaconda for PvP Battles (it's clearly tanky enough to survive just about anything if you know when to "exit the stage" - but to me it just doesn't seem an effective Ship anymore).
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Well my anaconda rebuy at the moment is over 28M (it has been higher) - when you consider that it was bought and outfitted at the Li Yong-Rui discount it would be a lot more otherwise. So no it doesn't go in to PvP situations (even though I have more than 10 times the rebuy cost in the bank) as I don't want some hacker or ganked-up team of misfits hunting me down because I do lots of pirate-kill missions. I do take it into PVE HI-CZ and HI-RES though and have had quite big repair bills at times, mainly because I get "wanted" and have the world and his dog on my tail until I can wake-out (I only have 3 insurance claims and I don't think any were in an anaconda - touch wood).