New toy
I've made a move from plying the market and trying my luck with bulk freight, to doing long distance deliveries for mucho moneys. I stacked two deliveries yesterday and made 3.4 mil
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The AspEx is all well and good for this, but I can't turn it into a combination cargo ship and brawler, and the same goes for the Type 9 which has lovely huge holds but is so ungainly that it's an ordeal to fly. Having heard a lot of good things about the Python, I figured I'd give it a go, and so I snapped one up.
Flying it, it feels like the Vulture's bigger brother. With a large weapon mount over each shoulder, I'm right at home. The big gun in the nose and a couple of mediums just add to the fun.
I'm surprised at how maneuverable the ship is, I figured it'd be large and ungainly just like the type 9, though when you've got the throttle in the blue, it's surprisingly nimble.
I outfitted it with a jack-of-all-trades build; a pair of large multicannon (G), a pair of medium beam lasers (T) and a seeker missile launcher in the nose.
To my joy, some stupid in a DBX (master) interdicted me and I submitted, to see how the python could handle itself.
And, well... Good and bad. Good was down to the ship, bad was down to me.
The shields stand up surprisingly well to abuse and the ship itself is pretty nimble in combat too. The downside came to my choice of weapons loadout. The turreted medium beams were fairly effective at knocking his shields down, but the multicannons were effectively useless until they were down. The missile launcher did what it's supposed to do, but because I was only launching a single missile at a time, it was easy for my foe to swat it out of the sky with his point defense system.
I smashed the DBX into space dust, but not before a combination of bad loadout and unfamiliarity with the ship (and probably him being a Master) got my hull down to 52%, which in a DBX-vs-Python fight should just not happen.
So I'm off to Gidzenko Ring in Chamunda to refit my ship, I'm wondering what types of weapons to get, I'm tempted to go with large thermals and medium ballistics.
So yay, python!
I've made a move from plying the market and trying my luck with bulk freight, to doing long distance deliveries for mucho moneys. I stacked two deliveries yesterday and made 3.4 mil
.The AspEx is all well and good for this, but I can't turn it into a combination cargo ship and brawler, and the same goes for the Type 9 which has lovely huge holds but is so ungainly that it's an ordeal to fly. Having heard a lot of good things about the Python, I figured I'd give it a go, and so I snapped one up
.Flying it, it feels like the Vulture's bigger brother. With a large weapon mount over each shoulder, I'm right at home. The big gun in the nose and a couple of mediums just add to the fun.
I'm surprised at how maneuverable the ship is, I figured it'd be large and ungainly just like the type 9, though when you've got the throttle in the blue, it's surprisingly nimble.
I outfitted it with a jack-of-all-trades build; a pair of large multicannon (G), a pair of medium beam lasers (T) and a seeker missile launcher in the nose.
To my joy, some stupid in a DBX (master) interdicted me and I submitted, to see how the python could handle itself.
And, well... Good and bad. Good was down to the ship, bad was down to me.
The shields stand up surprisingly well to abuse and the ship itself is pretty nimble in combat too. The downside came to my choice of weapons loadout. The turreted medium beams were fairly effective at knocking his shields down, but the multicannons were effectively useless until they were down. The missile launcher did what it's supposed to do, but because I was only launching a single missile at a time, it was easy for my foe to swat it out of the sky with his point defense system.
I smashed the DBX into space dust, but not before a combination of bad loadout and unfamiliarity with the ship (and probably him being a Master) got my hull down to 52%, which in a DBX-vs-Python fight should just not happen
.So I'm off to Gidzenko Ring in Chamunda to refit my ship, I'm wondering what types of weapons to get, I'm tempted to go with large thermals and medium ballistics.
So yay, python!
