Finally! (thanks to 3.0) I have a Corvette...(now with vid in post 110)

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Gun Star said:
It is the same as the Fed slog now. I cranked out my last 4 ranks for Imps in 2 days. It is ridiculous how easy it is the rank up now. It is almost insulting.
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WOW! That is unbelievable! :O

Things have definitely gotten much easier than back in the day. But having never been a fan of rank locked ships, I really can't complain that newer players have had a much easier road to hoe than I and all the other ED vets had. :)
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Electric Kite said:
Whats your actual shield strenght?
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Don't know yet, Coriolis doesn;t have the new engineering values. With biggest A shield and old booster values (old best boosters), it's about 3800 I think, so I'm expecting probably around 4500 with new engineering.

GG7 said:
WOW! That is unbelievable! :O

Things have definitely gotten much easier than back in the day.
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Understatement of the century. :) Most of it has been for the better though, it was a little 'too' punishing back in the day.
 

Electric Kite

Electric Kite
Aashenfox said:
Don't know yet, Coriolis doesn;t have the new engineering values. With biggest A shield and old booster values (old best boosters), it's about 3800 I think, so I'm expecting probably around 4500 with new engineering.



Understatement of the century. :) Most of it has been for the better though, it was a little 'too' punishing back in the day.
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Correct, slight variations aside thats more or less what im sitting on right now.
 

Gun Star

Gun Star
GG7 said:
WOW! That is unbelievable! :O

Things have definitely gotten much easier than back in the day. But having never been a fan of rank locked ships, I really can't complain that newer players have had a much easier road to hoe than I and all the other ED vets had. :)
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Yeah my Fed ranks took me months to unlock Rear Admiral. I wasnt in a rush to do the Imp Rank Climb and was just doing it here and there, but when 3.0 dropped and saw how easy it was to finish it. I knocked out in 2 days with maybe 3 hrs put into it each day. Lets just say I own a Cutter now also...lol

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Aashenfox said:
Maybe they're size 7 after all. lol, doh. I don't have the build in front of me right now, but coriolis still has old engineering values anyway, so it's a poor indication.
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I highly recommend going with DUAL 7A SCBs and 3 Heat Sink Launchers. If you plan to do any serious combat with other large ships, this will make things a heck of a lot more fun. Especially if you plan on taking on Level 4 NPC Corvettes, which love to RAM you every chance they get. :D

With maxed shields/boosters and dual 7As, you can ram them right back! In fact, this is my preferred combat technique with all large NPC ships I engage with. I put the Spiked Ship Kit on my Vette to be more in line with this approach. :D
 
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JohnRoberts

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ThePunisher said:
Yay so thanks to 3.0 now all of us that worked hard for the vette and grinded r way there 3.0 is now holding your hand to give you more rep and allowing all these noobs to get a ship that should have been worked for not handed out.
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Happiness is not zero-sum game.

Not only does it not bother me that people can get a Corvette for less effort than it cost me, it actually makes me happy that more people can get to experience this beast of a ship.
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
GG7 said:
I highly recommend going with DUAL 7A SCBs and 3 Heat Sink Launchers. If you plan to do any serious combat with other large ships, this will make things a heck of a lot more fun. Especially if you plan on taking on Level 4 NPC Corvettes, which love to RAM you every chance they get. :D
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I eat those for breakfast in my lightweight courier, the corvette is for deliberately aggroing and subsequently cheesing entire combat zones. :D

I think they are 7As in my spec I just mis-remembered. Cheers!
 
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Gun Star

Gun Star
Conch said:
i went from master to duke in a day in 2.4.. altho it was quite pricy doing donation missions. about 700m..
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I did by stacking maybe 30-40 Black Box recovery missions since the rep they give out on most of them was +++++. Like in my other post I only spent at most 3 hrs each day doing it.
 

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Aashenfox said:
Don't know yet, Coriolis doesn;t have the new engineering values. With biggest A shield and old booster values (old best boosters), it's about 3800 I think, so I'm expecting probably around 4500 with new engineering.



Understatement of the century. :) Most of it has been for the better though, it was a little 'too' punishing back in the day.
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It did seem to take forever for me to unlock the Cutter, but I wasn't ever focused on that goal, so it eventually happened by just playing the game. Having been pledged to the Princess forever, the bulk of my in-game activity always revolves around PowerPlay and Imperial space anyway, which helped a bit with the time it took.

Still... It was a good 18 months if memory serves.
 

Conch

Conch
Gun Star said:
I did by stacking maybe 30-40 Black Box recovery missions since the rep they give out on most of them was +++++. Like in my other post I only spent at most 3 hrs each day doing it.
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thats not too bad. my corvette was even easyer, as i used Tun :D
 

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Aashenfox said:
I eat those for breakfast in my lightweight courier, the corvette is for deliberately aggroing and subsequently cheesing entire combat zones. :D

I think they are 7As in my spec I just mis-remembered. Cheers!
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Cool! I was referring to the high dollar/G5 mat reward Assassination Missions. Those always involve a Level 4 Vette or Conda and sometimes both at the same time, if you have any additional enemies involved you didn't bother to kill in advance of the main target instance. :)

The encounter will be much different than it is with a smaller, much more nimble ship.

You'll see. :) I really enjoy these, and now you can take on the Wing Mission versions Solo if you want to hone your multi-target techniques. :D
 
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ThePunisher said:
Yay so thanks to 3.0 now all of us that worked hard for the vette and grinded r way there 3.0 is now holding your hand to give you more rep and allowing all these noobs to get a ship that should have been worked for not handed out.
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The rank grind was far too punishing anyway. I worked for my rank too before this update, but I'd still wanna see the rank locks completely gone. Just because I suffered it doesn't mean others should be forced to aswell.
 

Electric Kite

Electric Kite
Aashenfox said:
Thanks for the confirmation. Which way did you go? Reinforced shields and resistance boosters? Damn I wish we had a way to compare the new values. :(
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I went reinforced shields with 2 HD boosters only and the rest resistant boosters so technically you could go above 4500 MJ and perhaps beyond 5000 MJ.

However i have 70% explosive resitance, 65 % kinetic resistance and 50 % thermal resistence with a very solid MJ amount of about 4500 MJ - that easily trumps raw MJ strenght IMO.

Plus the diminishing returns on Booster stacking means its always better to have a mix if you can.
 
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