After the completion of DW2 (i finished early having arrived at beagle point well ahead of schedule) I headed to Colonia to partake In gameplay that I have yet to sample.
Mining… well to be more precise, as I have mined before waaaaayyyy back before engineers and before horizons..
New-fangled explody mining!
What???? No it cannot be..?
Flew around prepping my ship for mining and .. no pulse wave scanners are available in Colonia.. what the actual Mr Scott???
I know you can still mine without one as the prospector will identify explody ones but, after 4 to 5 hours of hotspot and res mining (searching but also old school mining for Osmium for the engineer) my prospectors managed to identify one explody.. crikey.. just one.
So, after the required amount of Osmium was refined that was it for explody mining.. Colonia disappointment.
Really wanted to stay in Colonia for a while and immerse myself in the new mining but it looks as though Colonia does not want any crazy folk with their new-fangled explody mining… I’ll be heading back to the bubble then Colonia, Shame.
But.., not wanting to leave just yet, I prepped my explorerConda (76LYR jump with a boost and SRV & SLF) for hauling and the like and noticed I had a load of guardian tech in storage, size 8 PP and distributor, so slapped em on along with a fully engineered size 6 prismatic, and then had a look at the hard points and noticed I also had some Guardian Plasma chargers a size 3 and 2.
Have never used fixed before but slapped em on for the sake of it along with a size 4 & 3 beam and a size 3 MC.
Took a mission to kill 7 pirates from Brians Thugs thinking I will see the rebuy screen a few times.
WOW, just wow.. thought I would hardly use the plasma chargers but, after hitting the target on my 3rd attempt (an asp) and then the 4th and he pops… well, the feeling was quite incredible! and, and.. no rebuy screen was seen!
The feeling of achievement of getting the hit followed by the wonder and excitement of watching of the plasma exploding all over the ship.. it is rather intoxicating, and I have been converted to fixed big bad guns!! Haha
(love creeping up behind a pirate who is attempting to pirate a miner and unleashing a double volley of plasma at point blank range, it never gets old
)
So much more enthralling than just maneuvering the ship a bit to let the gimballed guns do their work and I implore anyone who thinks they couldn’t and wouldn’t (like my previous self) use fixed to give em a go.. you could surprise yourself.
Now I cant wait to get back to the bubble to slap some fixed guns on my WarVette!
So, thanks Colonia, for, in the (annoyingly) absence of any PWS’s you made me try fixed guns and have relighted my fire!! haha
What other big fixed guns should I think about? I do like the way the Plasma's charge up..
Also, are the level of opponents in Colonia on a lower base than the bubble? I managed to stay out the entire time when I took a mission to destroy 64 pirates whereas, in the bubble in my WarVette I would be going back to base to recharge and rearm and repair after 20 or so .. although, that might have something to do with only ever attacking condas and the like but the WarVette has a shield SOOOO much stronger than the 6A in the conda… oh well, might be the plasmas!
Fly safe Cmdrs
EDIT: I did not mean to post it here...!
Mining… well to be more precise, as I have mined before waaaaayyyy back before engineers and before horizons..
New-fangled explody mining!
What???? No it cannot be..?
Flew around prepping my ship for mining and .. no pulse wave scanners are available in Colonia.. what the actual Mr Scott???
I know you can still mine without one as the prospector will identify explody ones but, after 4 to 5 hours of hotspot and res mining (searching but also old school mining for Osmium for the engineer) my prospectors managed to identify one explody.. crikey.. just one.
So, after the required amount of Osmium was refined that was it for explody mining.. Colonia disappointment.
Really wanted to stay in Colonia for a while and immerse myself in the new mining but it looks as though Colonia does not want any crazy folk with their new-fangled explody mining… I’ll be heading back to the bubble then Colonia, Shame.
But.., not wanting to leave just yet, I prepped my explorerConda (76LYR jump with a boost and SRV & SLF) for hauling and the like and noticed I had a load of guardian tech in storage, size 8 PP and distributor, so slapped em on along with a fully engineered size 6 prismatic, and then had a look at the hard points and noticed I also had some Guardian Plasma chargers a size 3 and 2.
Have never used fixed before but slapped em on for the sake of it along with a size 4 & 3 beam and a size 3 MC.
Took a mission to kill 7 pirates from Brians Thugs thinking I will see the rebuy screen a few times.
WOW, just wow.. thought I would hardly use the plasma chargers but, after hitting the target on my 3rd attempt (an asp) and then the 4th and he pops… well, the feeling was quite incredible! and, and.. no rebuy screen was seen!
The feeling of achievement of getting the hit followed by the wonder and excitement of watching of the plasma exploding all over the ship.. it is rather intoxicating, and I have been converted to fixed big bad guns!! Haha
(love creeping up behind a pirate who is attempting to pirate a miner and unleashing a double volley of plasma at point blank range, it never gets old
)So much more enthralling than just maneuvering the ship a bit to let the gimballed guns do their work and I implore anyone who thinks they couldn’t and wouldn’t (like my previous self) use fixed to give em a go.. you could surprise yourself.
Now I cant wait to get back to the bubble to slap some fixed guns on my WarVette!
So, thanks Colonia, for, in the (annoyingly) absence of any PWS’s you made me try fixed guns and have relighted my fire!! haha
What other big fixed guns should I think about? I do like the way the Plasma's charge up..
Also, are the level of opponents in Colonia on a lower base than the bubble? I managed to stay out the entire time when I took a mission to destroy 64 pirates whereas, in the bubble in my WarVette I would be going back to base to recharge and rearm and repair after 20 or so .. although, that might have something to do with only ever attacking condas and the like but the WarVette has a shield SOOOO much stronger than the 6A in the conda… oh well, might be the plasmas!
Fly safe Cmdrs
EDIT: I did not mean to post it here...!
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