Ships The Imperial Courier is amazing!

CMDR Hagglebeard

CMDR Hagglebeard
Wow. I never liked the Imperial Clipper much, as it feels to sleek, to fake to be in ED. However, today, I jumped into it's baby brother, the Courier, and oh boy is it good. Just sitting in the cockpit makes me want to get into a dogfight. If only i could take this into the training missions for a whirl! :D

I definitely recommend this beast.
 

CMDR Hagglebeard

CMDR Hagglebeard
Stressfest said:
What's the scoop with it? FSD range blah blah blah.. any good for anything other than short range fighter?
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No. I just stuck a pair of pulse lasers and a missile rack on it, with a bunch of fuel tanks and a fuel scoop.

I herad that serfs could get access to it for a limited time, so I bought mine and am going to store it in CD-34 9020 so I'll always have it.
 
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X-Terminator

Banned
X-Terminator
OK, cool, cheap enough. I already tried Tarongua or similar near Lembava. An orbital looking like Dubai Airport with nice Asian lady on tanoy. No Imp Ships in that system at all though. Will search.
 

colprice2002

C
X-Terminator said:
OK how much? I am going to rank up in Empire next. Where to buy near Lembava?
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I reckon that about 5 million cr should be enough (!) - That's with a couple of gimballed beams and a burst laser + A2 shield, A grade distributor/FSD and a couple of shield boosters.
The jump range isn't bad, and is seems reasonable economic for the fuel tank size.
The one problem is that scooping does need - the heat build-up is quite bad - you'll take longer to scoop or run the risk of overheating.

A good ship to use for small cargo runs through disputed space as it can run away from almost anything else, and the shields are really tough. The down-side is that you can be mass-locked quite easily....
 

willowfan

willowfan
Can't remember exactly what scoop I fitted but it's fairly small and slow, even A rated and the Courier is very prone to rapid heat build-up when scooping.

Still love it though :)
 

Starlanced

Starlanced
My favorite flying ship in the game, just flies so nice, thrusters are strong, sound is awesome. It may not be the most maneuverable ship in game or the fastest but it just flies smooth.
 
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KayAitch

K
It's an awesome heavy fighter - insane shields and it fits somewhere between the Viper and the Vulture (but a bit off to one side).

Weirdly it appears to be smaller than the Eagle.

The one downside is that it has serious heat management issues - it can power guns that will overheat it. For instance with 4 pips in WEP it can pretty much continuously fire 2 medium beam lasers, but you'll overheat in a few seconds.

My current set up is maxed out sheilds + boosters, 2 med multi cannon and 1 med beam, and with that I'm getting around 1 mil cred an hour in combat zones.
 

paganpenguin

paganpenguin
Recently ranked up to serf so bought the clipper and courier before they up the rank requirements. Didn't have the credits to outfit the clipper so that is currently stored, but decided to sell up my DBS to equip the Courier.

Initial thoughts are that it *could* make a good combat ship but I have yet to find that sweet build for my playstyle. Have gone back to testing and learning the ropes around running a stealth Scout but will take the Courier out on any combat mission from the BB.
 
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