Well, I think it comes down to the old "horses for courses" argument. As @TheChosen pointed out above it can depend what kind of combat you are doing, PvE or PvP.
Wow, that is funny. So you were not looking for any actual info at all. You had already made up your mind and have even got rid of the ship long before this discussion began. LOL par for how people are these days. No real discussion or true consideration, just I have my view of the world and nothing is actually going to change it. I find that funny but also sad.For the record, a few people suggested ways to fly the Cutter in combat which minimises it's level of suck but, unfortunately, I haven't seen anything that made me think a Cutter is a superior combat ship to, say, an Annie or a Corvette.
Which is probably just as well 'cos I actually stripped all the modules off the Cutter I built and flogged it a couple of months ago.
im not changing anyones mind...mainly because I cant.Yes, clickbait title is clickbait.
Having played around with Coriolis, and realised just how much shield you can bolt to a Cutter, I decided to build something just for farming CZs, Pirate POIs and similar stuff.
Thing is, erm, it actually isn't very good.
Sure, the shield is all but impregnible but combat is just plain dull.
It can't really keep targets in it's sights and I was, literally, nodding off while I was waiting for it to turn and re-acquire a target.
It doesn't really have insta-kill DPS and a lot of my targets would run away and, because it takes so long to turn, I couldn't chase them, mass-lock them and finish them off.
Honestly, the Outlaw Annie that I built a few months ago is better at PvE combat-farming.
I think the biggest problem is the weapons.
It's using a 4A beam, a bunch of MC's and a couple of PAs.
It does a decent enough job of exploding things like Annies but, for anything smaller, they take a couple of hits and then flee... and I can't turn fast enough to chase them.
Funny thing is, my Trade-Cutters just have an "average" weapon loadout (combination of lasers and MCs) and I've never felt like I was at a disadvantage but I guess, when flying a trader, if you can make your attacker run away it's a "win".
Anybody got any suggestions for tactics to use when flying a Cutter in combat, or weapons that work well with it?
Yeah. I know I am not that great a pilot, so I don't sweat it. That is why I am glad this game has so much more to offer than pew pew.
Here’s an obvious fact: neither am I.
Yeah. I get that. I was having a discussion about something on Facebook with a friend and someone in the post disagreed with me and asked me to explain my reasoning. He also said nothing I could say would change his mind. So I responded that then there was no reason for me to respond to his request, since he had stated that nothing I could say would change his view.
Fly Gutamaya. Fly open. Fly safeS'funny, I'm not sure if FDev did this deliberately (in fact, I'm pretty sure they didn't) but they seem to have made all the Imp' ships good at projecting a certain image.
First, there's the iCourier, which nobody bothers to attack because everybody knows that, if they do, it's likely to disappear into the distance at 850m/sec and/or, in the right hands, 3x C2 hardpoints can have a nasty sting.
Then there's the Clipper, which nobody bothers to attack because, frankly, it's the go-to ship for clown-faced ne'erdowells and attacking one is like deciding to throw sausages at a hungry Pitbull.
Lastly, there's the Cutter, which nobody bothers to attack because it's likely to have more shields than a Coriolis station and you might as well spend your time attacking an anvil with a pea-shooter.
Pfffffffff
