Hello Commanders.
Not much going on here in the Mercenary department, so due to a recent experience, I´d like to ask for a few tips on how to do well in Conflict Zones. Because it seems that I don´t really understand how they work...
So I´ve done a couple of CZ in my Diamondback Explorer and did reasonably well. Of course, sometimes I bit off more that I could chew, but most of the times, I managed to get a dozen kills or so.
Just recently I got enough money to buy my long awaited Python. So I put everything A-rated in it, (except Sensors and Life Support), I outfitted it with three large beam lasers and two frag cannons, I also put in hull and module reinforcements, shield boosters, chaff launcher and then I did an engineering round and I have everything engineered between grade 3-5.
Then I though "Let´s kick some ass and see what this baby can do" and I entered a high intensity CZ. After just a few seconds all the ass that was kicked was mine, and I managed to jump out with 10% hull left.
OK, let´s start smaller, I repaired, and entered a low intensity CZ. The exact same thing happened. Just after picking a side, 2-3 ships focused me and I had to flee. After the fifth conflict zone, I finally gave up. All I could achieve was one ! shot down fighter and a new highscore for my repair bills.
But every time, there was at least a Corvette with one or two addtional ships attacking me. That never happened in my DBX.
Was it just bad luck ? Somehow it feels weird that I did much better in conflict zones with my DBX than with a much more combat focused Python...
Do the enemies scale with the player ship ? Do they have something like a "targeting priority" ?
If I figure out how to post a link from coriolis, I can also link my Python setup.
But any tips and tricks would be appreciated.