Hi,
I've never been a big combat player, mainly because it's expensive to learn, especially back when I originally played and it took a long time to grind up to having a single multi-purpose Cobra III or DBX, it would take hours of gameplay just to earn enough to afford to die once... Thats how the game used to be at least for those who have only arrived in the last few years; but since returning to the game recently and finding the grind is less severe I've been able to quickly earn enough to have specialised ships of a decent standard and try my hand at combat again. That's just background to my question, I've been around for a while, though with a long hiatus and never really done much combat, I'm only ranked Novice.
I have a Vulture now, I wanted to do some bounty-hunting but the power-draw on the KWS is insane so figured that was more something I could do once I'd unlocked some more engineers and decided to try combat zones, especially after picking up a mission where I could earn 15M by killing 70 enemies in the zones. Maybe it was the credit signs in my eyes but 'back in my day' that was a serious amount of money, I played the game from launch for three years and never managed to earn that much so I thought maybe this was a bridge too far but nothing to lose (you used to be fined for failing almost any mission which was another thing limiting your ability to try new stuff but that seems to have been removed in most cases now).
The first combat zone I tried was a medium intensity and things went much better that expected, I got 5 kills toward my mission target while never being in any real danger; so I stepped things up and went to a high intensity CZ. There I made 10 kills and while I did take a little bit of hull damage I was still able to head back to base to repair and resupply quite happy that I was progressing towards that target pretty smoothly, and with over 2M credits earned in combat bonds too it seemed like today was going to be a profitable day.
However since then I have been to three further combat zones and made no further kills, on each occassion I've picked my first target, engaged it and lost. The first two were high intensity but then after deciding to step down to a low intensity one I still died without making any kills while the three rebuys have wiped out the profit I'd made on the combat bonds I got earlier.
So, a simple question at the end of all that explanation, did I just get lucky with my first two forays into combat zones? I feel like I should cut my losses, abandon the mission and go do something else until I'm able to engineer my combat ship a bit better. Seems like the level of challenge you get when you enter a combat zone is highly variable and while you could have an easy time and things go very well you're more likely to have a bad time.
I've never been a big combat player, mainly because it's expensive to learn, especially back when I originally played and it took a long time to grind up to having a single multi-purpose Cobra III or DBX, it would take hours of gameplay just to earn enough to afford to die once... Thats how the game used to be at least for those who have only arrived in the last few years; but since returning to the game recently and finding the grind is less severe I've been able to quickly earn enough to have specialised ships of a decent standard and try my hand at combat again. That's just background to my question, I've been around for a while, though with a long hiatus and never really done much combat, I'm only ranked Novice.
I have a Vulture now, I wanted to do some bounty-hunting but the power-draw on the KWS is insane so figured that was more something I could do once I'd unlocked some more engineers and decided to try combat zones, especially after picking up a mission where I could earn 15M by killing 70 enemies in the zones. Maybe it was the credit signs in my eyes but 'back in my day' that was a serious amount of money, I played the game from launch for three years and never managed to earn that much so I thought maybe this was a bridge too far but nothing to lose (you used to be fined for failing almost any mission which was another thing limiting your ability to try new stuff but that seems to have been removed in most cases now).
The first combat zone I tried was a medium intensity and things went much better that expected, I got 5 kills toward my mission target while never being in any real danger; so I stepped things up and went to a high intensity CZ. There I made 10 kills and while I did take a little bit of hull damage I was still able to head back to base to repair and resupply quite happy that I was progressing towards that target pretty smoothly, and with over 2M credits earned in combat bonds too it seemed like today was going to be a profitable day.
However since then I have been to three further combat zones and made no further kills, on each occassion I've picked my first target, engaged it and lost. The first two were high intensity but then after deciding to step down to a low intensity one I still died without making any kills while the three rebuys have wiped out the profit I'd made on the combat bonds I got earlier.
So, a simple question at the end of all that explanation, did I just get lucky with my first two forays into combat zones? I feel like I should cut my losses, abandon the mission and go do something else until I'm able to engineer my combat ship a bit better. Seems like the level of challenge you get when you enter a combat zone is highly variable and while you could have an easy time and things go very well you're more likely to have a bad time.
