It wasn't me, but I use one to progress combat rank as some wanted ships are elite, and it's a way to use combat to push up influence for the controlling faction in the beacon's system in another system they control.I don't remember who recommended compromised nav beacons, but thank you
OMG so much fun!!!!
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I'm realising a Clipper needs at least one thermal vent beam laser to work properly in combat. It heats up really easily, and I've gone and put 2 x incendury round double shot large frag cannons and 2 x pack hound launchers on it. So long as I only have one ship to kill, I can just about make the kill before the ship cooks itself and it's very entertaining. I'll try a couple of extra ammo heat sink launchers firing when the pack hounds do to last a bit longer for multi target assassination missions. That's all I need from it as other ships are used for long duration combat.
That looks pretty nice.
My day was Okay until I found this thing, I looked for over an hour and couldn't find any more. Real bummer!
I never thought about the faction influence?
Needed a change from grinding combat rank in HazRes and CZ, it was getting a little boring. Compromised Nav Beacons, are much more fun.
Try the "Black box recovery" missions, those are loads of fun too (if you don't mind getting jumped by a wing).
I tried a few assassination missions and thought they were too easy - Then did one that had a wing of 4, and my shields dropped to under 30% in less than a minute, so I had to boost away.
Have now fitted a chaff launcher and ECM
Hopefully I won't be too cocky in future!
Yes I prefer them - somehow more interactive and more pirates come to scan you. I forgot to mention you improve influence by selling the bounty vouchers in a system where you want to push up influence controlled by the faction that controls the system with the compromised beacon.
I hope that made sense. It seems to be just as effective as running missions for inf++ rewards in the system you want to add influence for the faction controlling the station you sell them at.
Also decent rep+ too if you need it.
I upgraded my tormentor to level five and filled all the mod slots.
Some time ago, I found an L-6 at level two that had noise suppression. That's now level three and I shall be seeing if I have enough mats for a viable mod.
However, that can wait until I've finished with this system that has a veritable plethora of exo signs. It may even move my progress up by 1%
Some time ago, I found an L-6 at level two that had noise suppression. That's now level three and I shall be seeing if I have enough mats for a viable mod.
However, that can wait until I've finished with this system that has a veritable plethora of exo signs. It may even move my progress up by 1%
That's not a fortunate combination for an L-6
Noise suppression works only inside. And it does not affect the rocket explosion noise, but only the launch noise. And the 2 sound sources will be rather close when shooting the L6 inside
However, Audio Masking is actually quite nice for an L-6. It useful to fire it at some distanced point where you want the guards to converge while the launch location remain "unheard"
You have room for a couple of Shield Cell Banks, you can have those engineered too. I was told that by deactivating them it will allow your shields recharge faster.
Personally I don’t have the situational awareness to make effective use of Shield Cell Banks so I use those slots for Hull or Module reinforcements.
The ones you shut off to speed up failed shield recovery are Shield Boosters in the Utility slots, the banks are the ones you have to trigger before the shield fails they then top up some or all of the shield at the cost of a big wack of heat, it used to be recommended to fire a heat sink at the same time.
That's a great idea, military grade hull reinforcement package with deep plating.
He mentioned shields, I was just playing along. I remember reading a thread where they were debating it, guess I should write all this down. There's almost too many variables in this game.
Have not tried cutter for combat, but you have a few slots left, as mentioned by other CMDRs better fill them up with HRP/MRP/Cell banks.
On the beams, I don't expect to dogfight in a cutter, so I would prefer LR mod over Efficient. also for the C2 beams I might swap them to pulse, LR again with other experimental like emissive or phasing sequence to amuse your target.
And your PP still have lots of juice for A rated shield boosters unless you have difficulties getting them at your current region, otherwise why use the Ds.
Finally, not sure have used SLF before or not, but a MC SLF would be very helpful, dispite of the %%% of income taken.
Osseus - exists all over the planet. But it's invisible, so there
If you want to be able to rescue ships at distress signals, I'll suggest swapping the class 5 fuel transfer limpet controller for a 3C Rescue multi-limpet controller that has fuel, repair and hatch breaker with 4 limpets with longer range than a regular fuel transfer or repair limpet controller. Some Guardian Shield Reinforcement packages would be of use, but as a second priority to shield cell banks. I prefer the Specialized modification on shield cell banks as you get more MJ of recharge and the heat levels are not so bad when using them. You still need heat sinks or to have thermal vent beams firing on target to manage the heat, though.
For general mission running for reputation or influence I find the operations multi limpet controller more useful - collector limpets and hatch breaker, up to 4 limpets with good range and life. That might not suit your goals, though.
I like what you have done with the sensors - D rated but long range. A lot of people go light weight on sensors which leaves you unable to target beyond a few km which isn't helpful if seeking wanted ships.
This weeks Discovery Scanner is up and has a link to this video. Since we were just talking about Occupied Escape Pods, I'll link it here in case you missed it.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpeMyeekyks
Little better day so far, found all 4 on this moon
I'm not sure I get the gest of that video, if you have 2 different colored eyes your considered a mongrel human and the Zeno lovers will feed you to the Thargoids?This weeks Discovery Scanner is up and has a link to this video. Since we were just talking about Occupied Escape Pods, I'll link it here in case you missed it.
I think the video could be released with an alternative ending: the 'Conda bristling with missile banks and opening fire on the escape pod survivor. Gankers irony.