Where has it been said there's a shield nerf coming? I recall talk from a way back but nothing of late...
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- Thread starter MrFailfactory
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Welcome to the club OP!
The Cutter is a Robo-Babe, especially engineered - to truly appreciate her you should have a T-10 for trade first, then the drift is irrelevant, she handles like a dream in comparison.
That said, Anacondas, Fer De Lances and T-10s will be your chasers, all easily evadable from submit-to-supercruise. Watch out for engineered T-10s tho' they can hold you long enough to nix "D" rated shields - very rare tho'
Enjoy!!
The Cutter is a Robo-Babe, especially engineered - to truly appreciate her you should have a T-10 for trade first, then the drift is irrelevant, she handles like a dream in comparison.
That said, Anacondas, Fer De Lances and T-10s will be your chasers, all easily evadable from submit-to-supercruise. Watch out for engineered T-10s tho' they can hold you long enough to nix "D" rated shields - very rare tho'
Enjoy!!
There isn't, the message you are replying to is from March 2017
What has changed is the ability to engineer a size 5 shield for the Cutter as the optional modifier to mass is no longer available.
Congratulations! I enjoy my cargo cutter profusely. With class 6 shields I can carry 728t. I usually see the dangerous-elite condas. With engineered MC in almost all hardpoints, there's no need to run. Pew pew pirate dead.
That's not entirely accurate. What having that extra speed gives you is time.
Unless your assailant is running long range mods on their weapons, the damage they can bring to bear drops off sharply outside of 1.2 kilometers or so.
The faster you are the longer it will take for the attacker to close the gap to where their weapons are delivering full damage.
Stealthie
Banned
My cargo Cutter does 303m/s (480m/s boost) with 8D thrusters vs 324m/s (520m/s boost) with 8A thrusters.
With 8D thrusters, it's going to take me 3.9sec to cover 1.2km.
With 8A thrusters, it's going to take 3.7sec.
In a ship >2000 integrity and >5000 shields, the 0.2sec difference probably isn't going to be critical.
Sure, more speed is always better than less speed but squeezing every last m/s out of a ship like a Cutter isn't as important as it might be in, say, an AspX.
Cheers stealthie , its good to know details like this as an A rated cutter can cost a pretty penny and the rebuy is nothing to scoff at either.
Stealthie
Banned
Depends on your ship spec', of course, but swapping down to 8D thrusters can have a tidy knock-on effect with regard to the PP and PDist too.
I needed an 8A PP to run 8A thrusters and a 7A PDist (in order to build boost quickly).
By swapping to the 8D thrusters I could trade down to a 7A PP and I swapped to a 7D PDist too.
Altogether, that's something like Cr150m saved on the thrusters, Cr110m saved on the PP and Cr9m saved on the PDist for a total of around Cr270m.
Quarter of a billion credits to go 25m/s faster... in a ship that doesn't really need to run away from anything.
Course, if you have a build that needs the power for other things, you'll have to keep the 8A PP and 7A PDist, which'll make the ship heavier, which'll mean the 8D thrusters don't perform as well.
Equally, I guess if you're trying to catch other ships, maybe the extra speed is worth the expense.
Horses for courses.
Depends on what I’m flying. If I’m in a Dolphin, it’ll be Anacondas. If I’m in a Cutter, it’s usually Vultures. I gave up trying to figure out NPC match-making.
in fact, me too
I'll give you that A rated only makes a small difference and, that a commander finding themselves in a position where that small difference makes, well, a difference has done goofed.
But, this is the Imperial Cutter and it seems almost sacrilegious to put anything less than A rated into her. Well that and I've already engineered her drives and, in really not looking forward to more engineering. ;3
My Type-9 hauls in excess of 700 tons, sports prismatic shields, has never let me down, and costs less than 1/4 of my Cutter, which makes a fine combat ship with 256 tons of cargo capacity, should I feel like hauling small loads of rare goods.
Tried one as an Explorer, but my Beluga out jumps it for 1/10 the price.
Tried one as an Explorer, but my Beluga out jumps it for 1/10 the price.