I'm not even going to bother with the conflict phase, once the trading phase is complete I'm heading back to the bubble.
Next Week's Goal: Which reward would you rather have? (Spoilers)
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Perhaps if we all write nice things about the CG and how much fun it was, they will give us another for the alternative weapons 
If we all work together against the common enemy ....... we can do this ..... the game must be a draw (match fixing unintended of course)
Empire pilots allready helped the indis reach the current CG tier 2...
Some even posted help videos, so those who hate SRV driving could help the indi faction...
War CGs are decided on combat bonds handed in not tiers, its not possible to draw... so its a pipe dream any way...If we all work together against the common enemy ....... we can do this ..... the game must be a draw (match fixing unintended of course)
Phase one has allready crippled the segnen Empire factions rating on my mission board to hostile as I raided and killed there ships for mats and commodities, so I all ready jumped over to zende side by doing phase one and helping the independents by pirating segnen ships...
Battle cutter with GFSD booster will be out there on Thursday... with a taxi at the large landing pad in pencil system to hand in combat bonds at the outposts...
This is not an adversarial CG...
And maybe take our the swarm too, now that would be nice!
So the missiles are the slightly less rubbish option.
likely be easier to get in to top 10%, if you go that way... If you have the right combat ship
yea but the syn mats option only requires 279ly not 800ly of jumps, the mid point system is were you collect mats now not the long jump...So the missiles are the slightly less rubbish option.
279Ly in a T9 or cutter to get mats might be due able as then you can do USSes and carry 500+limpets and then do ~100 USS at a time with 5 collectors each then jump 279 ly back..
40k lay out, can’t care. We get what we get. Community isn’t clever enough to stop at 50/50 and unlock both.
and some people say, there is no grind. The grind is real!
I'm leaning toward the missile option. We already have AX Mcs, and I can envisage a niche for fast smaller ships in a supporting role with missiles. I fancy bringing my 750m/s Courier with three missile launchers to support a wing - missile flybys at max speed.
Unfortunately, I'm 60kly from the conflict area and there's not shuttle service, and my new account offers the choice of an unengineered Viper or a minimally engineered DBS... so I'll be making no impact on this CG.
Unfortunately, I'm 60kly from the conflict area and there's not shuttle service, and my new account offers the choice of an unengineered Viper or a minimally engineered DBS... so I'll be making no impact on this CG.
AFAIK missiles don't inherit speed of the ship they were launched from.
If you have Guardian Gauss unlocked, you'd be more useful to mount center hardpoint and one of the nacelles with it. Other nacelle should have flak launcher.
Or all 3 should be gauss, but that is quite wide hit spread, you will probably hit with only 2 of them. And they are hitscan.
The new anti-thargoid weapons are de-facto useful only for ships with enough spare hardpoints.
But because the flak is important and thermal vent beam very useful, it is probably only T10 that still has enough free hardpoints. But that ship is - diplomatically said - not very useful for direct thargoid interceptor neutralization operations.
Or for people who don't bother to unlock gauss - but I don't understand why, because you have to grind guardian mats for reloads (even more of them), so why not just grind for gauss - it won't take longer and you are in better position to fight thargoids than with advanced weapons.
My take on those new weapons is that unless FDev changes them, they won't be used a lot - even the missile that is better than MC.
I was excited about these until I learned there were no gimballed version, and no heat seeking version.
I was hoping I could actually load out my ship with weapons, and then swap them to AX mode if I happened upon Thargoids.
I don't think that is going to work out, as they seem to have been designed as extra weapons added on top of your current AX build. I just want to be able to fly about and do whatever comes up without having to spend half the play time re-modding my ship for the activity I saw a while ago which then isn't around once I get the ship I need for it.
I was hoping I could actually load out my ship with weapons, and then swap them to AX mode if I happened upon Thargoids.
I don't think that is going to work out, as they seem to have been designed as extra weapons added on top of your current AX build. I just want to be able to fly about and do whatever comes up without having to spend half the play time re-modding my ship for the activity I saw a while ago which then isn't around once I get the ship I need for it.
No, missiles don't inherit the ship speed, but as they are dumbfire getting in close quickly could allow three direct hits, then a quick escape.
As for the Gauss... my Courier cannot handle three. I tried. I do have two, plus two large AX MCs and a flak on my Krait - I'm just looking for something different to try out.
If you think ax builds are all about the weapons then it's probably as well they designed the new additions the way they are....
I don't, I'm just saying, I was hoping they would allow me to switch modes mid flight, so instead of seeing a thargoid signal/zone, then going to a nearby station and re-fitting, I could see it, synth tharg ammo, and drop in. I'm not massively bothered about taking on the super mega monster thargs, I've soloed plenty of basic interceptors with Guardian weapons
I was hoping I could remove my gaurdian weapons, and be able to switch from better power vs human targets, to damage vs thargoids.
Just aint designed that way.