Ships Struggling to find any practical use for this beautifull ship.

Snakebite0923

Snakebite0923
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I'm loving my Imperial Courier Azrael , as mentioned earlier the cockpit view is fantastic kudos to those involved in the ship's creation. It is fast enough at 380 something cruise speed and a almost 500 boost speed with a turn rate of 53 to keep me happy. Shields are 532 so I can last in a tough fight . So far three multi cannons two being incendiary one under the nose corrosive all overcharged. Grade 1 sadly however going a higher grade with effects seem nearly impossible to achieve. It kills better than it did but it should be better. Perhaps I'm placing too much importance on the weapons having effects. And grade five without effects would be better. Anyway great ship i can't seem to stay out of it and when I am I'm in my beloved Clipper Mastema. Poor Anaconda is setting in Frey still waiting. Lol 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 

K-Rose

K-Rose
Finally 9 months after resetting my save I've gotten round to getting Master with the Empire & picking up my old Courier again. With a Black Friday paint job, named "Midnight Haze" (I had chosen Purple Haze but thought it was a bit silly not to have a purple ship)

So I've got the DD5 on my enhanced thrusters, I'm pushing 780 straight off with nothing else engineered and not the best modules (EG 1A life support as that was all that was available at the station) I'm just wondering how to outfit this thing properly. I want to keep it above 700 so I can maintain the "It's above Mach 2", that should give me a lot of leeway for gear. I'm unsure what weapons would compliment the speed of this thing.

By the way I love that this thing goes about 590 with 4 PIPs to engines & full speed. It flies regularly faster than any of the fighters boosting.
 

Rankaze

Rankaze
Spacecat said:
Haha, so am I. I bought one last night on a whim, and I love the cockpit, it definitely feels the most "jet fighter" like of the ships, but I also have no idea what to do with it, other than just make another generic bounty hunter ship. I threw in an engineered enhanced drive I had sitting around, and it's very fast. Maybe ditch all weapons and use it as an actual courier ship?
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I do this. My primary Courier was built for racing, but she serves very well as an essentially pirate-proof mission runner. (I also have a combat Courier, but she is a side project I work on from time to time... her engineering isn't complete yet. Already very effective, though).

Being able to go 730+ with 18T of cargo aboard is kinda crazy.
 
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ranix

ranix
the key with the courier is to use its speed to avoid taking damage. It can't turn that great so get weapons you can unload your capacitor with fast like railguns or plasma cuz you can't stick to your target and spam lasers like you can in a sidewinder. It mulches small ships at RES
 

Rankaze

Rankaze
ranix said:
the key with the courier is to use its speed to avoid taking damage. It can't turn that great so get weapons you can unload your capacitor with fast like railguns or plasma cuz you can't stick to your target and spam lasers like you can in a sidewinder. It mulches small ships at RES
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If you build it reasonably lightweight, keep pips (at least one whole pip) in ENG, and make good use of your lateral and vertical thrust controls, the Courier can knife-fight just fine. Last night I got on the six of an Elite Viper Mk. Iii and was able to stay there until he blew up.

I'll agree it is best suited to boom-and-zoom tactics, though. Personally, I like burst lasers for that job.
 
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