Icourier wow just wow

tafkabb

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I think I've cracked it. I was using 3 A0 boosters with a 3A shield but after some messing about I have 4 (four!) D-rated boosters alongside the 3A shield, while magically keeping the total ship mass at a little under the magic 90T, at 89.5T. Handles like an Eagle and has a top boost of 425, which I haven't even engineered.
The game is like 1.5 now, I can attack anything and everything and believe me, I am :D
 

Roasted1982

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I pulled the trigger on one last night. I put the enhanced drives on it and it boosted to 480 with No engineer upgrades!!!! That's with only 2 class d boosters though and all cargo racks except A3 shields. I put level 1 clean drives on and it's up to 530!!!! If I can get it over 600 with clean drives 5 in a (super light) combat build I will be happy. I just noticed low power shields lowers weighty so will be putting that on, low weight mounts on all weapons, heavy duty armour on the lightweight alloys. I will put heavy duty mod on this boosters which will add 6 tons but I'm hoping the ther mods cancel it out. I put triple pulse all fixed on it and double chaf just like on my FDL. I plan to use this to annoy the hell out of people in large ships in PVP. Gonna be like an elephant trying to swat a fly.
 
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StiTch

StiTch
iCourier is a long standing baby of mine. I've loved it and grown with it since my early days of playing.

Alas I have written too many guide posts on loadout and flying technique for the thing, so unless there are any specific questions I will leave it at my biggest "tip" for the ship:

Do not be fooled into thinking it's a shield tank. It is not. Get a cutter with over 3,000 mj shield and you can start telling everyone you're a shield tank.

iCourier is a nimble fighter with strong shields for a small fighter. To many larger ships they are average. But many larger ships cannot fly at >800 m/s with this level of agility, and with the smallest ship profile to hit you could possibly ask for.

Remember that you will need to utilise both the shields and speed so that instead of tanking damage outright, you use evasion to reduce the incoming damage as much as possible. Against NPCs it may be entirely possible to stick to the back of larger ships and never be hit anyway.
 

tafkabb

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AlviseVenice said:
Am i the only a**hole that use this baby for exploration ? [noob]
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Took mine to Veil West. I'll be taking it further at some point.

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StiTch said:
iCourier is a long standing baby of mine. I've loved it and grown with it since my early days of playing.

Alas I have written too many guide posts on loadout and flying technique for the thing, so unless there are any specific questions I will leave it at my biggest "tip" for the ship:

Do not be fooled into thinking it's a shield tank. It is not. Get a cutter with over 3,000 mj shield and you can start telling everyone you're a shield tank.

iCourier is a nimble fighter with strong shields for a small fighter. To many larger ships they are average. But many larger ships cannot fly at >800 m/s with this level of agility, and with the smallest ship profile to hit you could possibly ask for.

Remember that you will need to utilise both the shields and speed so that instead of tanking damage outright, you use evasion to reduce the incoming damage as much as possible. Against NPCs it may be entirely possible to stick to the back of larger ships and never be hit anyway.
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I agree with all of that. Not getting hit is the trick isn't it, hence the obsession with weight. I don't bother with chaff either, as it's so easy to just get out of the way
 

StiTch

StiTch
BongoBaggins said:
I agree with all of that. Not getting hit is the trick isn't it, hence the obsession with weight. I don't bother with chaff either, as it's so easy to just get out of the way
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Chaff can be useful if used correctly because you force enemies to a) use missiles (which aren't great against shields enough to be a buzzkill) or b) use fixed weapons against a ship at that speed with that small a hit profile.

Alas against NPCs I can normally keep it away from NPC fire, and in PvP there's a lot of fixed weapons around anyway. And the iCourier is a perfect example of needing to make sacrifices on utility slots. It wants chaff for that reason but it wants heat sinks to circumvent the godawful heat profile and wants boosters to keep that shield tasty. I don't personally throw chaff on atm when it is so desperate not to waste utility slots.
 

ick

ick
In my opinion, the most advantageous thing about the iCutter is the size EIGHT slot along with an "optional internal" count of a whopping 51 over the total of 9 optional slots.

The Type-9 Heavy also has a size 8, but the total of the optional internals only adds to 42 over the total of 9 optional slots.
The Federal Corvette and Anaconda have a larger number of "optional internal", 54 and 59 respectively... but the size 8 slot in the iCutter is more important especially if your focus is shields or cargo. A size 8 doubles the size of the cargo over a slot of 7. It DOUBLES it. That is hard to beat.
 

Divine Cerinian

Divine Cerinian
ick said:
In my opinion, the most advantageous thing about the iCutter is the size EIGHT slot along with an "optional internal" count of a whopping 51 over the total of 9 optional slots.

The Type-9 Heavy also has a size 8, but the total of the optional internals only adds to 42 over the total of 9 optional slots.
The Federal Corvette and Anaconda have a larger number of "optional internal", 54 and 59 respectively... but the size 8 slot in the iCutter is more important especially if your focus is shields or cargo. A size 8 doubles the size of the cargo over a slot of 7. It DOUBLES it. That is hard to beat.
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That's cool, but we were talking about courier, not cutter.
 

captainkapp

captainkapp
4 class a boosters and prismatics all engineered to level five gives me 1700 shields on the Icourier. Some may call this excessive but it's extremely handy in most cases.
 

Ozram

Ozram
Courier is a beautiful fighter. Tart up the shields by all means, but keep the chassis light. Maneuverability is your armour in that ship.
 

Roasted1982

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captainkapp said:
4 class a boosters and prismatics all engineered to level five gives me 1700 shields on the Icourier. Some may call this excessive but it's extremely handy in most cases.
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0A boosters heavy duty 5 are ~14 tons each .... that's half the hull weight of a courier..........EACH.
 

Divine Cerinian

Divine Cerinian
Ozram said:
Indeed. Better of modding some D rated boosters. Keeping the weight down on the courier is imperative to maintaining its performance.
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Indeed, considering that you're best off by not getting hit, two d rated grade five resist boosters, and maybe, just maybe two d rated heavy duty boosters grade five would be ideal for weight and shield strength. Resist boosters weigh much less than heavy duty ones.

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Hell when you can push over 700 on a boost, 1700 mj aren't necessary lol.
 
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