What's the anti murder-hobo trading-build meta for CGs in Open?
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Cobra Mk III.
Seriously.
Seriously.
FDL, or solo, or a different game...
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Cobra Mk III mate.
It's quite safe thanks to speed, flat profile high armour potential.
I will give a shout to the T-6 though. Just mount a single 32T rack, and use the remaining six internals for defensive gear.
Not slow either.
Playing around on coriolis I made a T 9 with a class 7 prismatic and a bunch of boosters get around 1400 MJ. That's enough to high wake from most things unless they have torpedoes and grom bombs. If they have torpedoes and grom bombs your odds are not great.
Grom bomb?
Any special gear needed for this? I got interdicted by a commander last night and lost the mini-game even though I was on-target throughout most of the interdiction.
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It's a powerplay weapon. Dumbfire rocket that on impact, reboots the targets FSD.
Also available from engineering as a special.
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Cutter is a bit of an "I win" button, though.
My little Cobra requires skill, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
You'll (mostly) never win an interdiction against another cmdr, it's way op in favour of the aggressor.
Once you become proficient at submitting and high waking, you're basically un-killable as long as you equip your ship properly.
Bob Lighthouse
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+1 for Cutter, but the Orca just got a whole lot more interesting.
A Cutter with class 6 Prismatic shield and 5 boosters is fairly safe and I'm confident it can survive an attack from any SINGLE ship.
That said, if you get attacked by a well organized wing, there is very little chance of delivering any cargo. Several times I got chased out of a system by a wing of 4 Vipers - they don't deal much damage but a wing can easily keep chain interdicting a ship and effectively prevent a ship from reaching the destination, even if they can't destroy it. And any ship will run out of shield MJ and hull given enough time.
That said, if you get attacked by a well organized wing, there is very little chance of delivering any cargo. Several times I got chased out of a system by a wing of 4 Vipers - they don't deal much damage but a wing can easily keep chain interdicting a ship and effectively prevent a ship from reaching the destination, even if they can't destroy it. And any ship will run out of shield MJ and hull given enough time.
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There is another reason for picking a Cobra Mk III.
It's cheap. Really cheap.
It's cheap. Really cheap.
This. No I haven't combat logged, I've just gone.
Strategy: shield tank or escape?
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The answer to your question is the Imperial Cutter. Only weapons that can hurt you are the "Shield Busters" but the way I see it, torpedoes can't catch you and if a guy manages to strafe mine you at 500+ m/s then he deserves the kill. I've yet to see it happen myself though and I doubt I ever will.
edit ps. Cargo wise it carries 720 unless you need the FSD Booster for efficiency reasons. Or you want an 8A Prismatic because moar shields or something. By far the best combination of protection and cargo, in any configuration, though.
edit ps. Cargo wise it carries 720 unless you need the FSD Booster for efficiency reasons. Or you want an 8A Prismatic because moar shields or something. By far the best combination of protection and cargo, in any configuration, though.
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