Newcomer / Intro PVE combat - Newbie in ship combat - old Explorer/Trader

[metatheurgist]

You can give this a try (not used it myself).

PVE

edtools.cc

 

[aRJay]

I see - the mission titles will be different - looks as if I pick up on civil war section - is a best type of system to find Pirate massacre missions?

Just to point out you don’t need to take a mission to hunt pirates just head to a RES and start scanning, if you have no cargo you will be ignored while you let shields recover or for a more intense experience take a ton of any cargo other than limpets.
The nice thing is no deadlines or kill quota to meet.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Hi All,

Im a UK player solo that only get an hour or 2 in the evenings - I've been enjoying Elite on and off for years - I keep trying ship combat, but disheartened when it take me in a vulture (lightly Engineered) ages to take down a ship

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong - I'm shooting, getting ride of shields (not too bad), but the hull take forever - on youtube I see people take a vulture in unengineered and take out ships fairly quickly

I try to keep as close as possible (normally 1 to 2 k) - but in low conflict zones, I get 1 or 2 ships before I run out of ammo or have too much damage

Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous

coriolis.io

Any help would be fantastic - as I enjoy combat, but it feels like I'm shooting a pea shooter

You're grade one engineered. That's nowhere near enough to be doing combat zones, especially in a Vulture that doesn't pack enough punch to begin with when armed with multi-cannons.

You need to be at least G3 or higher on everything before you try combat zones. And in a Vulture, you need to be very good at what you're doing as it's just not a very strong ship with those guns on it. Step up to some Pacifier Cannons and you're talking a completely different story though.

 

[Imo]

This minds me of my ASP Explorer in the conflict zones.

My ASP Explorer in the conflict zone

My first video with my ASP Explorer in the conflict zone took a lot of attention, so I made a new one!

odysee.com

 

[StumpyMat]

Here you go gents - I've been working on it - this is what I now have https://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture?code=A0patfFalddksff37l7l040j-04B22dm7272566m1m1.Iw18cQ==.CwBjEZzAmaGY7zmFYg==.H4sIAAAAAAAAA4WQMUrEYBSE32Y3cd2YxITNGq2ETbHsingB0dJGEGHRI4iVhVhZWHgAsdEDeABLwUtYWFpYWHoA0fiPM2jCdqYYJv98yZv3m5szs+82JbxrmUW3XbP0iC57YlKu0aHltgR1KF2dJhsfwOBtgZHnBopIWXVKSZ4d0A8A5PfkiysmQ32DtlsR6QsqP4HsITTrn+eEXngI323WTZLXdc6/pC00CV13UEcVh9p4ZH/9CkHLJ0tmEwnm3WHdtBLe2fsCfEWBxg3VCT2300A3WvyRnVNJqe0R/ZPHbrepc0zxigoIVvkeRh5v74ySj3q8vXeNS9y4/l14TY1VJ5XLLrhNKYf0F/IE7VPjxZiQXLYdEJJDNgNNG2jaQHKAzT4/Irh32+ABAAA=.CwegjOIAwgHNICmBDA5gG0ScVcJlEA==&bn=Stumpies Vulture 2

 

[Fnord Velkor]

Here you go gents - I....

Just an FYI (not moaning or criticising) you can just generate a "shortlink" in the top right:

Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous

s.orbis.zone

 

[aRJay]

Here you go gents - I've been working on it - this is what I now have https://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture?code=A0patfFalddksff37l7l040j-04B22dm7272566m1m1.Iw18cQ==.CwBjEZzAmaGY7zmFYg==.H4sIAAAAAAAAA4WQMUrEYBSE32Y3cd2YxITNGq2ETbHsingB0dJGEGHRI4iVhVhZWHgAsdEDeABLwUtYWFpYWHoA0fiPM2jCdqYYJv98yZv3m5szs+82JbxrmUW3XbP0iC57YlKu0aHltgR1KF2dJhsfwOBtgZHnBopIWXVKSZ4d0A8A5PfkiysmQ32DtlsR6QsqP4HsITTrn+eEXngI323WTZLXdc6/pC00CV13UEcVh9p4ZH/9CkHLJ0tmEwnm3WHdtBLe2fsCfEWBxg3VCT2300A3WvyRnVNJqe0R/ZPHbrepc0zxigoIVvkeRh5v74ySj3q8vXeNS9y4/l14TY1VJ5XLLrhNKYf0F/IE7VPjxZiQXLYdEJJDNgNNG2jaQHKAzT4/Irh32+ABAAA=.CwegjOIAwgHNICmBDA5gG0ScVcJlEA==&bn=Stumpies Vulture 2

Looking much more focussed.

 

[StumpyMat]

Just an FYI (not moaning or criticising) you can just generate a "shortlink" in the top right:

Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous

s.orbis.zone

View attachment 374232

Sorry

 

[Fnord Velkor]

Sorry

No need to apologise, as I said, I was just letting you know that the facility was there - I was not complaining about your post.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Here you go gents - I've been working on it - this is what I now have https://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture?code=A0patfFalddksff37l7l040j-04B22dm7272566m1m1.Iw18cQ==.CwBjEZzAmaGY7zmFYg==.H4sIAAAAAAAAA4WQMUrEYBSE32Y3cd2YxITNGq2ETbHsingB0dJGEGHRI4iVhVhZWHgAsdEDeABLwUtYWFpYWHoA0fiPM2jCdqYYJv98yZv3m5szs+82JbxrmUW3XbP0iC57YlKu0aHltgR1KF2dJhsfwOBtgZHnBopIWXVKSZ4d0A8A5PfkiysmQ32DtlsR6QsqP4HsITTrn+eEXngI323WTZLXdc6/pC00CV13UEcVh9p4ZH/9CkHLJ0tmEwnm3WHdtBLe2fsCfEWBxg3VCT2300A3WvyRnVNJqe0R/ZPHbrepc0zxigoIVvkeRh5v74ySj3q8vXeNS9y4/l14TY1VJ5XLLrhNKYf0F/IE7VPjxZiQXLYdEJJDNgNNG2jaQHKAzT4/Irh32+ABAAA=.CwegjOIAwgHNICmBDA5gG0ScVcJlEA==&bn=Stumpies Vulture 2

Much better. Well done.

Later on, you still need to upgrade your weapons to something with a lot more punch than multi-cannons. Either plasma accelerators or frag cannons.

Your DPS is 48.3 right now. My Vulture's DPS is 663.7 using Pacifier Frag Cannons and I'm only at grade 4.

 

[0threeleven]

focussed.

He's a funny guy. Hellboy, right?

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I'll go +1 for compromised nav beacons (CNB's). At first, don't try to take on wings (i.e. an NPC "team") and focus on single targets equal to or perhaps one down from your current rank.

As your experience grows - and it will - you'll find those become easy (well, easier) and you'll be able to move on to more challenging fights.

You can search for them here, changing, of course, the system to the one you're in currently.

EDIT: And once you've had enough of that, there's a whole new world of ground-based combat to learn \o/