I love turrets, myself. They really keep the pressure on, and my job becomes shooting the big guns whenever the enemy crosses my sights. Focused bursts are my faves, they have a really long range and are pretty easy on the power distributor.
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Note: The only combat Conda I have is AX, and that's all fixed.
I have a Vette, 2 fixed huge, everything else turrets, works very well.
I agree with Codger about focused, very useful on lasers, excellent range.
Turret question: Do they work without an extra crew member?
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Slightly used Beluga in great condition. Light signs of wear on the paint, but strong hull and upgraded FSD and Thrusters by legendary engine tuner Palin. Interior like new. Call for test flight. Currently stationed at Jameson Memorial. Rare offer! POA.
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Yep. They have 3 modes, Target Only, Fire at Will, and um...Fire Ahead, I think, I never use anything but Target Only.
The way I set 'em up, I put my main guns on fire button 1, and all the turrets on fire button 2, set to Target Only. I select my target, and when I'm ready to attack I press fire button 2 and the turrets light them up. My bursts have a 5km range or so, so they can tag a ship way out there for me. Once they get in range of my main guns, I shoot those manually.
Despite the apparent "lower DPS" I find that they do quite good damage, and they stay on target pretty well. Unless there's chaff. Then they miss more for a while. It doesn't seem to matter much, the enemy dies and I don't.
According to the Wiki:
Turret
Turrets are semi-independent auto-firing weapons that have a 360 degree range of fire. Standard turrets generally act autonomously, and do not require the hiring of an NPC crewman to act as a gunner. They must be part of the currently active weapon group in order to operate in either the Forward Fire or Targeted Enemy modes, otherwise they will not engage targets, even if they were previously activated.
Edit: Ninja'd!
Well, time to jump in the Beluga and go visit Cheungers, see what magic he can work on these shields.
Other upgrades I'm still scratching my head. May as well go with my standard non-combat engineering.
Other upgrades I'm still scratching my head. May as well go with my standard non-combat engineering.
It depends on what is in the turret, ordinary weapons work fine, mining lasers need crew or all turrets in Forward Only.
Everything should bristle with turrets.I ran across this nicely done image showing the scale of a Corvette and a Sidewinder. It's amazing how agile these ships are, considering their size!
Dogfighting in one of these really makes no sense to me. It should be bristling with turrets!
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That said the leverage available to the thrusters when they are mounted 450 ft away from each other should make changing the way it points easy the inertia of all the armour should make it harder to go that way.
But if they were supposed to make sense why do the ships have windows.
Poo. Can't get a turreted huge beam - at least not at Jameson Memorial. Do they exist?
And why are there so many wires exposed in my ships? Have De Lacy, Lakon et al not heard of conduits?
Edit: Ah... can't find any huge turrets of any weapon. Perhaps I've finally lost the plot altogether.
And why are there so many wires exposed in my ships? Have De Lacy, Lakon et al not heard of conduits?
Edit: Ah... can't find any huge turrets of any weapon. Perhaps I've finally lost the plot altogether.
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Poo. Can't get a turreted huge beam - at least not at Jameson Memorial. Do they exist?
And why are there so many wires exposed in my ships? Have De Lacy, Lakon et al not heard of conduits?
Edit: Ah... can't find any huge turrets of any weapon. Perhaps I've finally lost the plot altogether.
I thought Jameson did every module available apart from the PP ones.
There a no turreted size 4 weapons of any kind - huge only has fixed or gimbal mounts.
They also don’t do Enhanced Thrusters. You’ll need to go and see Auntie Flissa for them.
I went on a little detour that got me off the expedition path for a couple of weeks but after a crossing of the Orion Spur Shallows I got back on the WP track
Just over 100 jumps to Colonia. Picked up my Prismatics (one in every size). I purchased another Krait II to fly back with. I fitted the size 6 PS to it so I can stick it in my Python when I get home. Not had them powered up.
I’m very impressed with the Krait’s ability to soak up heat. Obviously been scooping stars and I’ve been right up to the rim (leave it) going almost all the way around (again, leave it) as I passed through a few non-scoopable systems
. The Krait didn’t hit over 70% heat.
I even got thrown into a system between 2 stars, temp went up to 1300, I’ve suffered 1% damage on 2 or 3 modules. Very impressive
I’ll be back home soon. I’ll fit the Prismatics, run a few trades, tempt some pirates or other scumbags, see how they hold up.
I’m very impressed with the Krait’s ability to soak up heat. Obviously been scooping stars and I’ve been right up to the rim (leave it) going almost all the way around (again, leave it) as I passed through a few non-scoopable systems
. The Krait didn’t hit over 70% heat.
I even got thrown into a system between 2 stars, temp went up to 1300, I’ve suffered 1% damage on 2 or 3 modules. Very impressive
I’ll be back home soon. I’ll fit the Prismatics, run a few trades, tempt some pirates or other scumbags, see how they hold up.
This evening I've been cruising around Eta Crusis, just around the corner from Jameson. The system has a couple of ringed brown dwarfs that I wanted to try and mine. Got me some Serendibite which is rather profitable (~950K CR / T). It's generally a beautiful system well worth a visit. These brown dwarfs are interesting. Sort of half star, half gas giant, with no hydrogen fusion. Because of a low surface temp of 363 K (90 deg C or 194 deg F) they hardly emit light and this one, due to a very bright nearby main star, casts a shadow on the rings. Pretty neat:
I also found this Olympus Mons lookalike:
I like they way you keep discovering new tiny details in this game. Have you ever noticed the glow of the exhaust nozzles of the forward thrusters, slowly fading away after you shut them down?
I also found this Olympus Mons lookalike:
I like they way you keep discovering new tiny details in this game. Have you ever noticed the glow of the exhaust nozzles of the forward thrusters, slowly fading away after you shut them down?
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Cashed in all my schips, cause I wanted to see a 2Bn credits instead of 1Bn credits.
Got bored, rebuilt a fast and long Krait phanton, I was going to call it ,wait for it.....
...."The Phantom Denis".......
Settled on ' Scitec Reasearch ' again. Doing as many mat type gathering as possible.
With some explorations again. That 2 did not last long, have to wait till a get back from ...somewhere...
Got bored, rebuilt a fast and long Krait phanton, I was going to call it ,wait for it.....
...."The Phantom Denis".......
Settled on ' Scitec Reasearch ' again. Doing as many mat type gathering as possible.
With some explorations again. That 2 did not last long, have to wait till a get back from ...somewhere...