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Look again, she's at #2. Rating 5 gives you a 100% bounty bonus.
I have no idea how good(bad) the AI was before. Was mostly trading (omg, so slow and booring) and the few times I did end up in battle, my poorly equiped Cobra usually ended up with hull damage. But I started to play again now with the 1.3 patch and discovered these "new" Combat zones (yeah, it was awhile ago I played) and it didn't take long for me to progress in both ranks and money. It didn't take long before I had a maxed out Cobra, killing Pythons and Condas left to right, and now I have a Vulture soon maxed out too.
I would lie if I said I never took real damage and had to run, but overall, if the AI was easier to kill before than it is now, it really would have been shooting fish in a barrel. As the AI works now you have at least to plan a little beforehand rather going in guns all blazing. Usually never afraid of the enemy/target, but still showing proper respect since it can get quite nasty if you do mistakes rather quickly. I'm having fun at least
And finally doing some progress, seems bounty hunting/combat is my thing after all. Who would knew?
I would lie if I said I never took real damage and had to run, but overall, if the AI was easier to kill before than it is now, it really would have been shooting fish in a barrel. As the AI works now you have at least to plan a little beforehand rather going in guns all blazing. Usually never afraid of the enemy/target, but still showing proper respect since it can get quite nasty if you do mistakes rather quickly. I'm having fun at least
And finally doing some progress, seems bounty hunting/combat is my thing after all. Who would knew? 
Yes my fault, second place 40% bonus.
Rating 5? Are you a real human being or a robot? I already have job, thanks...
I believe it depends on a various amount of things, like security level, but I'm having odd times trying to piece together, it seems that with Hudson the only thing that works for maximum effect is Federation Medium Security, I haven't tried Federation High Security yet, if someone wants to come back and give me the findings. I received back to back Pythons in Zaragas.
No, always wingmen first. They pop faster, but there lasers are a nuissance to your shields.
Basically, the bigger ships usually have a mix of cannons and lasers, so they are rather inefficient against a vulture, whereas two or three small eagles attacking can make a difference.
Also, the small ones often run away, so to maximize bounties, kill the wingmen first.
Of course, I saw 3 Pythons in a wing a couple of days ago (Mostly Harmless, of course) - those in current rankings, and they would take my vulture apart, I think.
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I have no idea how good(bad) the AI was before. Was mostly trading (omg, so slow and booring) and the few times I did end up in battle, my poorly equiped Cobra usually ended up with hull damage. But I started to play again now with the 1.3 patch and discovered these "new" Combat zones (yeah, it was awhile ago I played) and it didn't take long for me to progress in both ranks and money. It didn't take long before I had a maxed out Cobra, killing Pythons and Condas left to right, and now I have a Vulture soon maxed out too.
I would lie if I said I never took real damage and had to run, but overall, if the AI was easier to kill before than it is now, it really would have been shooting fish in a barrel. As the AI works now you have at least to plan a little beforehand rather going in guns all blazing. Usually never afraid of the enemy/target, but still showing proper respect since it can get quite nasty if you do mistakes rather quickly. I'm having fun at least
The AI is a bit more challenging than before. They do try to keep a distance and go for jousting matches, but if you can tank some damage (vulture or python...), you can pop them quite fast. I think the AI could do a lot better, but it may just be too much then, at least for some people, or bounty hunters in vipers or cobras.
It really depends on your play style. I always fly with a lot of changes to the throttle, and then the AI is still quite manageable.
I'm guessing this is system dependent: I tried about four or five systems last night and just tried another two in my lunch break and still getting the same 'small fry' fest. Still, nice one getting 16 million, those of you how have been lucky enough to find good spawns
Hah, SJA confirmed there's a bug that causes them to forget to put pips on weapons sometimes - it'll get fixed soon(tm).
Oh yeah, but C3 pulses are more than enough actually. Beams will overheat you faster than the energy drying up. Or add some heat sinks, but that's not really good if you plan to stay out there for hours.
Two gimbled beams and a fixed pulse is working quite well for me in the large pyth hardpoints. Just stagger it a bit when firing.
I would go with Pulse Lasers and a Kinetic weapon, but from my understanding was that Pulse Lasers are better than Beam Lasers.
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Not true.
Things have changed: yes you can still have a lot of small/medium ships, but they are very high ranked now (Dangerous, Deadly) with decent bounties. They come in wings, so a wing of one Cobra and two Vipers takes a similar effort to beating a single Dangerous Python, with a very similar overall Bounty.
A spam of big ships is still possible (I've had two of them in a dozen sessions), but it's more rare. And now the Security level of the System is important for the spam.
Elite big ships are very very rare but they spam, sometimes... I've seen two Elite Pythons last night.
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We have already replied to his question, some posts ago, with similar replies, but he told us that he cannot equip pulses or bursts, because he have a problem with flashing lights.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=157644&page=4&p=2413958&viewfull=1#post2413958
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Yes I used to do the same thing but it's a bit tougher now. Two Deadly Cobras can make quite a mess of your shields if you just ignore them.