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CMDR Slee Piboi

CMDR Slee Piboi
znôrt said:
not seen that video, but i guess most of those wizards use macros, e.g., auto-hotkey. that's why such a micro managed pip system is a bad idea skill wise, specially if you consider that 'full pips to x' is more often what you need rather than a fine-grained distribution of pips, so there's little compromise in automating.
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Yep, I configured three buttons on my G402 mouse to simply repeat four keypresses with some 20ms delay in between. Everything I do for pips management is in sequences of four.

This gives me all I need and I don't even have 2-2-2 bound at all. Regardless of how pips happen to be distributed, when I press wep followed by eng, it gives me 0-4-2 (first it puts four pips in wep, then four pips in eng, leaving sys with 0 and wep with 2). Next I press sys and this gives me 4-2-0. Next I press wep-eng again, and I'm back at 0-4-2. This "4 pips to X" should be a thing in the control options just like the various "X% throttle" settings are.

NCFCpaul said:
Been putting in lots of practice aiming with my PA's at the local CZ
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Top3 factors for hitting with PAs are:

1. Range control
2. Range control
3. Range control

The best advice I have ever received for PAs is to fire them at a distance where you just can't miss.

I guess you could say most players have premature plasma acceleration.
 

NCFCpaul

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Something that has needed banging into my head is that using PA's much beyond 1km is fairly pointless - I might hit one in ten if I'm lucky.

I guess it's a case of learning patience even when you're opponent might be lashing into you with lasers or whatever. The temptation is to fire something back
 

Bigmaec

Bigmaec
NCFCpaul said:
Something that has needed banging into my head is that using PA's much beyond 1km is fairly pointless - I might hit one in ten if I'm lucky.

I guess it's a case of learning patience even when you're opponent might be lashing into you with lasers or whatever. The temptation is to fire something back
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You can try focused or long range PAs, g5 they are twice as fast and hit much more reliably. But drawback is less damage and higher draw/thermal
 

NCFCpaul

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Had a couple of good fights with Phisto today, first in my Mamba I (twice) failed to dodge his ram from his Clipper... Second fight in my Krait went much better, I actually dropped his shields and landed a few hits. Despite my efforts to stop it turning into a joust it sort of did, although attempts at orbiting worked in places. Pip management is now a thing, not a good thing, but it's happening!

In short it's getting better, but still resulted in a swift return to base... So far Schitt Stsynes is about the only person I beat, although (being fair) he did run out of ammo and that really helped!
 

Phisto Sobanii

Phisto Sobanii
NCFCpaul said:
Had a couple of good fights with Phisto today, first in my Mamba I (twice) failed to dodge his ram from his Clipper... Second fight in my Krait went much better, I actually dropped his shields and landed a few hits. Despite my efforts to stop it turning into a joust it sort of did, although attempts at orbiting worked in places. Pip management is now a thing, not a good thing, but it's happening!

In short it's getting better, but still resulted in a swift return to base... So far Schitt Stsynes is about the only person I beat, although (being fair) he did run out of ammo and that really helped!
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That Krait was a real good look for you. Your orbiting and avoiding the rams was much better. I lost pretty handily to Staynes after that (the dumbfires on his Challenger did a real number on me!). I think he'll have a video up soon on his YouTube channel.

I'm not a Krait pilot but you may want to consider some plasma accelerators for those larges. I don't know how well long range does heat wise on a Krait but I know you'll have plenty of power available. Could be fun.
 

Bigmaec

Bigmaec
Phisto Sobanii said:
That Krait was a real good look for you. Your orbiting and avoiding the rams was much better. I lost pretty handily to Staynes after that (the dumbfires on his Challenger did a real number on me!). I think he'll have a video up soon on his YouTube channel.

I'm not a Krait pilot but you may want to consider some plasma accelerators for those larges. I don't know how well long range does heat wise on a Krait but I know you'll have plenty of power available. Could be fun.
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Krait has the awesome c7 Distri, so if there is a medium that can take other PA blueprints than efficient it is the MkII or Phantom.
 

NCFCpaul

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I put the lasers on in the hope I could keep up pressure, I miss so often with the PA's that it's a little pointless. I put them on other ships to use as practice, the CZ's have been quite helpful for this.
 

Phisto Sobanii

Phisto Sobanii
NCFCpaul said:
I put the lasers on in the hope I could keep up pressure, I miss so often with the PA's that it's a little pointless. I put them on other ships to use as practice, the CZ's have been quite helpful for this.
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Have you tried LR PAs? Increased shot speed up to 1600 m/s (aka multicannon) with G5.
 

NCFCpaul

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There are examples on the Internet of small ships being very effective against just about everything - mostly Vipers rather than Eagle's though. I can't help but note some god like flying skills going on!

Vulture seems to be the smallest that normal mortals can be really effective in, at least on their own.

I'm a bang average pilot and I've comfortably beaten a really good pilot with me in my Krait and him in his Viper, it was no real contest. Two Vipers would have been a problem.
 
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