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HOW much??? Gggnnnghh. I need to investigate the downside of these
Somehow I've ended up with a French COVAS?!
Meh, I'll keep it.
Vanessa Paradis voicing my ship's computer would certainly help pass the time in deep space.Well, the Hutton Mug deliveries continue!
Very tempted to go slap some Thargoids about though.
Fortunately I've got AX ships at Pleiades and Witch Head. Hmm.
Also, I'm impressed enough with the Phantom to buy a paintjob.
Ech, not impressed with the paintjobs, bought white.
Somehow I've ended up with a French COVAS?!
Meh, I'll keep it.
The predictability of NpCs goes down the drain when real humans are involved. I've been interdicted several times (stopped counting), mostly flying back and forth between SD and Jameson. All the times I have accepted the challenge, and most times I've died. On the other hand, I was looking for trouble.
I have a Federal Gunship setup as a torpedo boat, for assassination missions. 2 torpedoes to take out shields, 6 for hull, cannons for the rest. At some point i have to investigate if pack hounds get equally good results for taking out say the power plant when the shields are down. If so, i could have more torpedoes for the shields, cause right now i can only do 2 missions tops before having to rearm..
Torpedos are only really good on very cool-running "stealth" ships that are difficult to resolve on sensor, so you can spring a reverb cascade experimental (or three or four) on a CMDR with a huge shield pool and destroy their shield generator in one salvo. Basically, it's a "surprise, mudderfugger!" ambush weapon for PvP encounters; that's the only context in which carrying a weapon that most healthy adults can outwalk makes any kind of sense.
Any experience with the Reverberating Cascade exp? I've only read about it for mines, which I've never used, but if you could destroy the opponents shield gen in one shot with a torpedo, that might be worth checking out?
Tried them twice (and still have them on my "business" Krait), but don't know if they're worth it, or if I simply fell afoul of the arming distance.
Or you could join the Martian Ambassadeur and not shoot at them. Seems Codger got all the eye candy anyhows (and then some, nice pics!). They haven't bothered me. The closest contact I've had was the big one scanning me at the crashed Conda (AFAIR). That one was pretty spectacular, and I remember jumping up very close to the thargoid ship in the SRV, and also flying into it with the camera drone. That was one of those situations where a replay binding would have been nice. Almost as much fun as running the SRV over a geyser at a low G planet. Stop shooting at them, and let Fdev come up with a more constructive narrative
Interceptors- AX/Guardian only.
Don't know if it's local, but in my country we have a saying going "We only have the fun we create ourselves" typically accompanied by something dangerous and extremely funnyNPC Interdiction after the 'tasty' Hutton Mugs.
Fair enough, I'll have a dabble.
Elite Viper, packing pea shooters by the effect he had.
Five minutes of dancing around, can't hit him with the plasmas, then...
CLICK! Sussed his pattern. Hit with all four plasma, head on short range, immediately before full boost ram.
O.M.G. Gone, evaporated. The plasmas wiped the shields, the ram turned his ship inside out.
One hit, one ram, gone.
Need target practice!
The mothership has to stay near the SLF so the ship will follow if you start to get out of range. 5km range, I think? If you order the mothership to stay still it will, but then when you get out of range you’re recalled. I’m not sure if you lose the fighter that way.
My current ship of choice for playing in fire like that is a T10, with all the utility slots packing heat sinks and enough collector limpets out it is no problem to load all the materials and containers sellable to search and rescue before landing to load the only passengers I bother with and head back to the rescue ship
