I'm really excited about killing spaceships tonight...

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I wanna talk on the forums, but I don't have anything important to say, so...

...finished modding my Viper III Big Game Hunter last night! G4 Efficient Plasmas and G5 Rapid Fire Bursts. I did an engineers tour and finally got to Lei Cheung for my Thermal shields just before the PP server lockout.

So I haven't yet taken her for a true combat spin. I did fight an Eagle who interdicted me on the way to Cheung, and I found I had a hard time landing shots with the fixed lasers and slow-moving PAs. Still, I didn't build this thing with an intent to kill Eagles, and she should do great for bringing down bigger game.

I'm looking forward to taking her Bounty Hunting tonight.

So.... thoughts?
 

Comrade Napoleon

Comrade Napoleon
vindelanos said:
I wanna talk on the forums, but I don't have anything important to say, so...

...finished modding my Viper III Big Game Hunter last night! G4 Efficient Plasmas and G5 Rapid Fire Bursts. I did an engineers tour and finally got to Lei Cheung for my Thermal shields just before the PP server lockout.

So I haven't yet taken her for a true combat spin. I did fight an Eagle who interdicted me on the way to Cheung, and I found I had a hard time landing shots with the fixed lasers and slow-moving PAs. Still, I didn't build this thing with an intent to kill Eagles, and she should do great for bringing down bigger game.

I'm looking forward to taking her Bounty Hunting tonight.

So.... thoughts?
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Watch your restock costs! :eek:

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Cherrs Cmdr's
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
vindelanos said:
I wanna talk on the forums, but I don't have anything important to say, so...

...finished modding my Viper III Big Game Hunter last night! G4 Efficient Plasmas and G5 Rapid Fire Bursts. I did an engineers tour and finally got to Lei Cheung for my Thermal shields just before the PP server lockout.

So I haven't yet taken her for a true combat spin. I did fight an Eagle who interdicted me on the way to Cheung, and I found I had a hard time landing shots with the fixed lasers and slow-moving PAs. Still, I didn't build this thing with an intent to kill Eagles, and she should do great for bringing down bigger game.

I'm looking forward to taking her Bounty Hunting tonight.

So.... thoughts?
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Ha, finished my Viper mk3 yesterday, pretty much G5 on everything. Guess its the opposite of your ship, its a long range scout (although I grabbed 600k at hazres today for the new cg):

28ly jump
50degrees pitch
505m/s cruise, 633m/s boost
149mj shield, 599 armor
Four fixed multi

:D
 
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Deadspin said:
Videos or shens.
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No can do, good buddy. I'm running on a rig that can't handle it. Someday this year I'll upgrade.

Comrade Napoleon said:
Watch your restock costs! :eek:

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Cherrs Cmdr's
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WILCO! o7

jasonbarron said:
Sounds like fun, Vindelanos.
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I took this ship out unmodded before I made the engineers tour. Had a lot of fun in it. Hopefully will be just as fun, if not more tonight.

Un1k0rn said:
Was the Eagle a player?
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Nah, an NPC. I'm a pretty good pilot (by my own estimation), but I don't have any illusions about how this ship would fare against a capable CMDR in a big ship.

Did have a Low-G dogfight with my wingmate when we left Kuk (him in a Cobra III)... that was incredibly fun!

sleutelbos said:
Ha, finished my Viper mk3 yesterday, pretty much G5 on everything. Guess its the opposite of your ship, its a long range scout (although I grabbed 600k at hazres today for the new cg):

28ly jump
50degrees pitch
505m/s cruise, 633m/s boost
149mj shield, 599 armor
Four fixed multi

:D
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Awesome! 599 Armor? I didn't look at my stats last night. I did roll thermal resist reactive armor though. I wonder where I'm sitting.

And yours is much faster than mine. I don't have access to Palin, so the best I could do were DD3s. Sitting somewhere around 380 Cruise, 480 Boost, I think.

IndigoWyrd said:
I love slow-moving plasmas.. if you do it right, this happens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb7dYMY96gw
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Very nice!
 
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Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
vindelanos said:
No can do, good buddy. I'm running on a rig that can't handle it. Someday this year I'll upgrade.



WILCO! o7



I took this ship out unmodded before I made the engineers tour. Had a lot of fun in it. Hopefully will be just as fun, if not more tonight.



Nah, an NPC. I'm a pretty good pilot (by my own estimation), but I don't have any illusions about how this ship would fare against a capable CMDR in a big ship.

Did have a Low-G dogfight with my wingmate when we left Kuk (him in a Cobra III)... that was incredibly fun!



Awesome! 599 Armor? I didn't look at my stats last night. I did roll thermal resist reactive armor though. I wonder where I'm sitting.



Very nice!
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Please post yours when you can, pretty sure you'll be much above my armor. Its lightweight armor plus a 1d and 2d hrp. You can easily go way above 1000 but it would break my speed/agility. :(

I even had to downsize the tank to c1. Gave me 15m/s iirc, but every jump drains 80% of the tank. It completely refuels in 11s though, so as long as I plot through scoopable stars I scoop without pause. :p
 
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jasonbarron

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I've learned the hard way that properly modded and flown Vipers/Eagles/Couriers are basically pointless to fight in my FdL. They're simply too fast to hit, and if the pilot has enough patience he can just spend twenty minutes whittling away at the medium size ship's shields.
 

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jasonbarron said:
I've learned the hard way that properly modded and flown Vipers/Eagles/Couriers are basically pointless to fight in my FdL. They're simply too fast to hit, and if the pilot has enough patience he can just spend twenty minutes whittling away at the medium size ship's shields.
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Interesting! But I'll be one good square hit can even the odds?
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
jasonbarron said:
I've learned the hard way that properly modded and flown Vipers/Eagles/Couriers are basically pointless to fight in my FdL. They're simply too fast to hit, and if the pilot has enough patience he can just spend twenty minutes whittling away at the medium size ship's shields.
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Yup, until the fdl flies defensively. Its basically a guaranteed draw. Which is what I said elsewhere today: modded small ships are basically ungriefable in Open. :p
 

CptXabaras

CptXabaras
vindelanos said:
I wanna talk on the forums, but I don't have anything important to say, so...

...finished modding my Viper III Big Game Hunter last night! G4 Efficient Plasmas and G5 Rapid Fire Bursts. I did an engineers tour and finally got to Lei Cheung for my Thermal shields just before the PP server lockout.

So I haven't yet taken her for a true combat spin. I did fight an Eagle who interdicted me on the way to Cheung, and I found I had a hard time landing shots with the fixed lasers and slow-moving PAs. Still, I didn't build this thing with an intent to kill Eagles, and she should do great for bringing down bigger game.

I'm looking forward to taking her Bounty Hunting tonight.

So.... thoughts?
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Well, I'm game bud o7
 

Andovar

Andovar
sleutelbos said:
505m/s cruise, 633m/s boost
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How is this possible??
I'm trying to create a little speed-racer out of a imp eagle, and even after adding Class3 enhanced thrusters with G3 dirty drive mod, I'm still only getting 525m/s boost.

Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. :(
 
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