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Now, whilst of course folks can and should fly what they like, and everyone's choices are all their own business...sometimes those choices might set you up to fail at what you're trying to do if you don't know.
With that in mind, I quite often see people getting into racing and using the Imperial Eagle. I did myself too, long ago - fooled by that promise of "932" and looking nicer than a Viper.
So I thought that I'd offer a general piece of advice to help any interested person avoid that error.
Unless you're racing opponents in medium or large ships for some reason, don't race an Imperial Eagle.
It's not a good race ship, for the following reasons.
1. Most importantly: Its acceleration is garbage poor. Yes, you can eventually get one to 932m/s, but - it'll take a long long time to get there.
2. As its acceleration is so poor, so too is its ability to turn using vertical and lateral thrusters. It can't corner well at all.
3. and its boost isn't optimal - too short, and there's not enough of them.
4. so it'll run out of distributor, even with its max. 2A PD carrying G5 engine focused, superconduit experiemental engineering.
5. Oh, and everything above is made worse if you actually build an Imperial Eagle that boosts 932, as you'll have had to cut that distributor down from a 2A to something lighter, giving you even less boost.
You'll probably need to boost it several times to reach its maximum speed, wasting what little's in that distributor capacitor. When it's going fast, you'll find your regular thrusters woefully ineffective at turning you.
So you'll need to boost to turn, only you don't have much boost available to you. What you do have isn't effective either, and it doesn't last long enough.
It's really only suited to boosting in a straight line and rather slowly reaching its top speed. You wouldn't even want to pick one for a straight-line drag race, because...Viper.
Whilst slower, its Core Dynamics sibling is a far superior race ship. Whilst it's also got the same distributor bottleneck, its acceleration is much better and so its thrusters operate much better with boosts, so it can corner great.
The Imperial Eagle might be good at many things, but racing is not one of these. It's all about acceleration, and it doesn't have it.
If you're interested in racing - do yourself a favour and just don't bother with it at all.
With that in mind, I quite often see people getting into racing and using the Imperial Eagle. I did myself too, long ago - fooled by that promise of "932" and looking nicer than a Viper.
So I thought that I'd offer a general piece of advice to help any interested person avoid that error.
Unless you're racing opponents in medium or large ships for some reason, don't race an Imperial Eagle.
It's not a good race ship, for the following reasons.
1. Most importantly: Its acceleration is garbage poor. Yes, you can eventually get one to 932m/s, but - it'll take a long long time to get there.
2. As its acceleration is so poor, so too is its ability to turn using vertical and lateral thrusters. It can't corner well at all.
3. and its boost isn't optimal - too short, and there's not enough of them.
4. so it'll run out of distributor, even with its max. 2A PD carrying G5 engine focused, superconduit experiemental engineering.
5. Oh, and everything above is made worse if you actually build an Imperial Eagle that boosts 932, as you'll have had to cut that distributor down from a 2A to something lighter, giving you even less boost.
You'll probably need to boost it several times to reach its maximum speed, wasting what little's in that distributor capacitor. When it's going fast, you'll find your regular thrusters woefully ineffective at turning you.
So you'll need to boost to turn, only you don't have much boost available to you. What you do have isn't effective either, and it doesn't last long enough.
It's really only suited to boosting in a straight line and rather slowly reaching its top speed. You wouldn't even want to pick one for a straight-line drag race, because...Viper.
Whilst slower, its Core Dynamics sibling is a far superior race ship. Whilst it's also got the same distributor bottleneck, its acceleration is much better and so its thrusters operate much better with boosts, so it can corner great.
The Imperial Eagle might be good at many things, but racing is not one of these. It's all about acceleration, and it doesn't have it.
If you're interested in racing - do yourself a favour and just don't bother with it at all.
