So after doing the yo-yo dance between the Cobra and the Viper (Cobra's just too big and fat to maneuver under my hands, gets hit too easily, and thusly I suffer more repair/wear and hull loss, whilst the Viper's too limited in range, underpowered, overheated, but actually maneuvers for once and doesnt cost much to run), I'm back in a Cobra, and bleeding credits. Note I can A-grade both ships, so its not a matter of equipment. Both ships were A-grade before and after switching to and from them.
Enough that I'm 200k down and have yet to even break even. Not helping that all the bounties I can find are Sidewinders, Eagles, and the odd Viper with barely 10k on them, and this in a low-security system in a resource node, mind you. This has been going on for nearly a week and a half as of this post, culminating in my most rage-related quitting of a game I've had yet.
I discovered in one of the stations I was passing through an assassination kill mission that I finish very well during the early days of my Viper, when I had such missions to begin with.. That was yesterday, with a ton of empty USS's and duds in between.
Now with 2015 just rolled in, I thought maybe my luck will change tonight.
It did. The kill target showed up. And I was quickly reminded why I disliked how large and fat the Cobra is. It doesnt have the shield to stand up to an Anaconda's array of energy weapons, and so I burnt through all my shield cells in my attempt to do Step 1 of my Anaconda kill plan, which is to kill the drives.
And here's the best part: Second time my shields failed, the Anaconda fired a cow-manure guided-by-Satan-himself plasma shot that hit my drives, taking them from 80% to 0%. I was dead.
I didnt even have time to go into the menu to self-destruct to deny this NPC Anaconda a Cmdr kill.
I'm done. I'm out. This game is becoming unhealthy for me to experience. I cannot in good faith play this kind of game if all it'll do is get my blood pressure up to past comfortable.
Enough that I'm 200k down and have yet to even break even. Not helping that all the bounties I can find are Sidewinders, Eagles, and the odd Viper with barely 10k on them, and this in a low-security system in a resource node, mind you. This has been going on for nearly a week and a half as of this post, culminating in my most rage-related quitting of a game I've had yet.
I discovered in one of the stations I was passing through an assassination kill mission that I finish very well during the early days of my Viper, when I had such missions to begin with.. That was yesterday, with a ton of empty USS's and duds in between.
Now with 2015 just rolled in, I thought maybe my luck will change tonight.
It did. The kill target showed up. And I was quickly reminded why I disliked how large and fat the Cobra is. It doesnt have the shield to stand up to an Anaconda's array of energy weapons, and so I burnt through all my shield cells in my attempt to do Step 1 of my Anaconda kill plan, which is to kill the drives.
And here's the best part: Second time my shields failed, the Anaconda fired a cow-manure guided-by-Satan-himself plasma shot that hit my drives, taking them from 80% to 0%. I was dead.
I didnt even have time to go into the menu to self-destruct to deny this NPC Anaconda a Cmdr kill.
I'm done. I'm out. This game is becoming unhealthy for me to experience. I cannot in good faith play this kind of game if all it'll do is get my blood pressure up to past comfortable.
