So Cheers Guys..
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for everyone that love to know how ships fly and feels like before buying themself : this thread is a bit love to the Federal Dropship !! In hope that it still gets some finetuning with the patch.
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I will list the pro and contras of the ship beginning with the Pro's i discovered by flying it in combat, pvp, pve, and just for fun..
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PRO :
1. The hardpoints are very good located, only affording 2 gimbeled guns out of 5.. the 3 lower positioned guns can easy be fixed ones, while the side ones should be gimbeled.
2. The Mass, yes the mass is actually an adventage on that ship.. first of all you are the highest mass on every field, so its your choice to stay or to jump.. is the fight not going your favor, 4sec and you are out.
3. The Mass, yes its the mass again ;-) The ship is flamed for its low maneuv, and yes it is a bit slower in turning while standing, but this thing is a drifter !!
you flying with flight assist off, not hitting anything, this ship doesent have to turn assist off, it slides every curve with a grace of japanese pimped drifting car, and you hit everything..
yes it is slightly slower in turning but with its drifting it compensates that by miles.. not even an eagle can outrun you by thinking he can stay at your 6.. no chance one boost one drift and he see the vacuum of heaven.
4. the powerplant.. this thing rareley get empty.. ok i know how to manage my energy, and trust me, dont, just dont go for beams..
i go with 3 pulse and 2 cannons.. 2med 1 large pulse.. you kill everything without recharging your cap up to cobra/viper.. just unload pulse until shields are gone and 2 shots with cannon done.
5. price.. this thing cost 37 mio, my asp did roughly cost the same, with 6.6 mio buying cost.. this thing can run with 45-50mio and you nearly fully upgraded if not everything need to be class A, and it doesent !
even with a D class powerplant you can fitt rails, plasma acc etc. as long you stay low with the shields and the thrusters.. and atm you dont need A thrusters, the A class only makes you 12ms faster then the D class !! D= 308 /boost A= 320boost.
but there it stays.. it slows down so slowly that you could say its normal speed is 280-300.. again its the mass !
6. looting, this thing scoop like a pro, where in gamma i saw, the looting was horrible due to the gun mounted in front of the cargo hatch, this was removed and now you can loot even with deployed guns..
it has the perfect looting speed and now you wont belive, it accelerates and decelerates faster then the asp at very low looting speeds.. so whipping forward and backwards for looting like roids or pirated cargo.. just perfect.
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Contra :
1. The speed !! its only 310 ms fast !! its slower then a type 9 !! my gosh give it a bit more.. 360 would be great, i would love it.. i know you need to be carefull not to make someting to OP, but 310ms for a fighting class ;-(
2. the low ammount of shield.. for pve its great since the low ammount of shield is recharched pretty quick by not using anything, but for anything else its to low. it should have around 220 instead of 110 shields, that would be pretty awesome.
3. overheating !! this thing boils like ether at room tempeature !! you cant fuelscoop properly without passing 150% overheat, you cant use plasma acc without using heatsink.. this thing just grills his electronics just unable to get rid of heat.
4. only 1 C6 rack.. if its a fighter ok but i would wish for such a mass a bit more space ^^ i run it with 80 tons.. or more speed and i would laugh about cargo !
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yeah thats prettymuch it... its a real upgrade to the ASP, beside the speed and the slightly less maneuv, but the drifting and the firepower with sustainable energy makes it feel like an upgrade really.. it just lak of speed and a bit maneuv and a bit shields. beside that its pure fun to fight with, it has nice sound, and same cargo as my asp.. just dont interdict ^^ same crap cost as with asp.
thats it i hope you enjoy the test, for me its a keeper, no matter what happens to 1.1 patch ^^ with pirate paint it just looks awesome, sad we dont have external view yet ^^
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for everyone that love to know how ships fly and feels like before buying themself : this thread is a bit love to the Federal Dropship !! In hope that it still gets some finetuning with the patch.
.
I will list the pro and contras of the ship beginning with the Pro's i discovered by flying it in combat, pvp, pve, and just for fun..
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PRO :
1. The hardpoints are very good located, only affording 2 gimbeled guns out of 5.. the 3 lower positioned guns can easy be fixed ones, while the side ones should be gimbeled.
2. The Mass, yes the mass is actually an adventage on that ship.. first of all you are the highest mass on every field, so its your choice to stay or to jump.. is the fight not going your favor, 4sec and you are out.
3. The Mass, yes its the mass again ;-) The ship is flamed for its low maneuv, and yes it is a bit slower in turning while standing, but this thing is a drifter !!
you flying with flight assist off, not hitting anything, this ship doesent have to turn assist off, it slides every curve with a grace of japanese pimped drifting car, and you hit everything..
yes it is slightly slower in turning but with its drifting it compensates that by miles.. not even an eagle can outrun you by thinking he can stay at your 6.. no chance one boost one drift and he see the vacuum of heaven.
4. the powerplant.. this thing rareley get empty.. ok i know how to manage my energy, and trust me, dont, just dont go for beams..
i go with 3 pulse and 2 cannons.. 2med 1 large pulse.. you kill everything without recharging your cap up to cobra/viper.. just unload pulse until shields are gone and 2 shots with cannon done.
5. price.. this thing cost 37 mio, my asp did roughly cost the same, with 6.6 mio buying cost.. this thing can run with 45-50mio and you nearly fully upgraded if not everything need to be class A, and it doesent !
even with a D class powerplant you can fitt rails, plasma acc etc. as long you stay low with the shields and the thrusters.. and atm you dont need A thrusters, the A class only makes you 12ms faster then the D class !! D= 308 /boost A= 320boost.
but there it stays.. it slows down so slowly that you could say its normal speed is 280-300.. again its the mass !
6. looting, this thing scoop like a pro, where in gamma i saw, the looting was horrible due to the gun mounted in front of the cargo hatch, this was removed and now you can loot even with deployed guns..
it has the perfect looting speed and now you wont belive, it accelerates and decelerates faster then the asp at very low looting speeds.. so whipping forward and backwards for looting like roids or pirated cargo.. just perfect.
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Contra :
1. The speed !! its only 310 ms fast !! its slower then a type 9 !! my gosh give it a bit more.. 360 would be great, i would love it.. i know you need to be carefull not to make someting to OP, but 310ms for a fighting class ;-(
2. the low ammount of shield.. for pve its great since the low ammount of shield is recharched pretty quick by not using anything, but for anything else its to low. it should have around 220 instead of 110 shields, that would be pretty awesome.
3. overheating !! this thing boils like ether at room tempeature !! you cant fuelscoop properly without passing 150% overheat, you cant use plasma acc without using heatsink.. this thing just grills his electronics just unable to get rid of heat.
4. only 1 C6 rack.. if its a fighter ok but i would wish for such a mass a bit more space ^^ i run it with 80 tons.. or more speed and i would laugh about cargo !
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yeah thats prettymuch it... its a real upgrade to the ASP, beside the speed and the slightly less maneuv, but the drifting and the firepower with sustainable energy makes it feel like an upgrade really.. it just lak of speed and a bit maneuv and a bit shields. beside that its pure fun to fight with, it has nice sound, and same cargo as my asp.. just dont interdict ^^ same crap cost as with asp.
thats it i hope you enjoy the test, for me its a keeper, no matter what happens to 1.1 patch ^^ with pirate paint it just looks awesome, sad we dont have external view yet ^^
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