I recently started a new alt account. Right now I'm at the level where I'm ready to leave the Noobula. I have a Cobra and a couple million credits, and I'd say it felt pretty smooth. There were two real surprises, one was quite how tough a CZ is when you've got a basic ship - the CZs aren't any different to normal ones so even in low intensity the AIs are high-ranked pilots with powerful ships.
The other is the odd selection of equipment that's on offer from Outfitting - I made a spreadsheet with a full list of what's on offer.
The ships are: Sidewinder, Adder, Hauler, Eagle, Viper 3, Cobra 3 and Cobra 4(!). So nothing that can carry a large weapon, and no modules bigger than size 4 or better than D quality.
There plenty of mining missions on offer from the boards, but no prospector limpets anywhere. I'm not sure how a player is supposed to complete these.
The weapons on offer heavily biased toward lasers, which makes the WEP capacitor a huge bottleneck on builds - I ended up using a Cobra and even two small gimballed pulses were enough to drain my 3D WEP capacitor. The only medium weapons on offer are pulses, bursts, cannons and frags, all fixed-mount. I went with two fixed cannons for my medium mounts.
The thing is, I'm not sure to what extent any of this is by accident or design. The lack of prospector limpets has to be a mistake, and the level of difficulty of the CZs relative to the equipment on offer was very high especially given this is the newbie zone. But the poor selection of medium weapons could be the game designer saying to me that if I have a Cobra I should probably be graduating from the area.
Thoughts?
The other is the odd selection of equipment that's on offer from Outfitting - I made a spreadsheet with a full list of what's on offer.
The ships are: Sidewinder, Adder, Hauler, Eagle, Viper 3, Cobra 3 and Cobra 4(!). So nothing that can carry a large weapon, and no modules bigger than size 4 or better than D quality.
There plenty of mining missions on offer from the boards, but no prospector limpets anywhere. I'm not sure how a player is supposed to complete these.
The weapons on offer heavily biased toward lasers, which makes the WEP capacitor a huge bottleneck on builds - I ended up using a Cobra and even two small gimballed pulses were enough to drain my 3D WEP capacitor. The only medium weapons on offer are pulses, bursts, cannons and frags, all fixed-mount. I went with two fixed cannons for my medium mounts.
The thing is, I'm not sure to what extent any of this is by accident or design. The lack of prospector limpets has to be a mistake, and the level of difficulty of the CZs relative to the equipment on offer was very high especially given this is the newbie zone. But the poor selection of medium weapons could be the game designer saying to me that if I have a Cobra I should probably be graduating from the area.
Thoughts?
