Any particular reason you are married to the Corvette? Something like a Krait m2 would do twice the effective/sustained DPS of most builds listed here and NPC pirates would have no chance of running. Corvettes can definitely be built to be competent bounty hunters, but they're really kind of subpar at this role compared to the alternative medium ship options. Vettes do fine at stationary defense and short range trade, but beyond this I can't think of a reason to use one.
The 2 C4 weapons are problematic because people assume it must do great damage. However C4 weapons pale in comparison to C3 power play weapons, namely Frags, so people try to make up for this to some small degree by using the fixed versions. Unfortunately the only offensive strength that the Corvette gets is from having top mounted C4s with an excellent wide firing arc and using fixed weapons eliminates that benefit. Fixed beams for instance do a whopping 106 DPS combined at short range and that requires a full 4 pips to WEP just to sustain those two piddly weapons. That's less than half the sustained DPS from my Krait using less than 2 pips for WEP. I honestly can't suggest a superior C4 weapon choice because in reality it doesn't exist. There are only choices that less bad than the best C3 choices.
Very interesting. Well Corvette was last big ship I missed so that's the reason, simply to have them all. Now I have to say that I like those C4 beams very much, doesn't feel like I have any problem with energy etc. So far I don't like big ships much but corvette seems like quite maneuverable and with plenty of internals so I like it the most. Jump range could be better. Actually I wanted some mostly or all turrets ship but with no C4 turrets its kinda sad for me to put something C3 into C4 slot.
Well to be honest on most of my ships I kinda struggle with having enough DPS to kill enemies in reasonable time. Most of all some damn elite Vulture keeps circling around, it will never kill me and it takes so damn long to kill it if it wont FSD away sooner. On Conda I have lets say upper side beam lasers and under belly 2x MC, still sometimes it feels slow. Maybe its just me doing assassinate pirate missions again and again so it feels slow and its not.
I mean mission to kill 70 ships is getting a bit long and a bit repetitive, I wanted something which will do it fastest possible way. No access to Superpower stuff, doubt Ill ever have that, I cant be asked to grind merits if its same as I remember. To be honest I never saw anything working better than C4 fixed beams, although I never tried frags, maybe in very beginning and I didn't like that at all, so maybe ill try on some smaller ship.
I don't know usually ship looks well on paper but its not working in game. Either I have enough power to keep firing all day and do no dmg or I burst all in seconds and run out of power. I prefer later.
Last think is...I enjoyed corvette a bit, then made mining trip to see those famous void opals. It wasn't that much fun, a bit like searching for a needle in stack of hay, but I found some and also let myself killed by explosion throwing me on asteroid while taking away my shields. At least it was something unexpected so I enjoyed even that. But no matter what I kinda running into "what to do now" issue lately.
What setup do you have on such Krait?