OK......Give Me A Clue....

[blazingmaniac]

It seems since 1.4 all npcs seem stream chaff almost constantly. Certainly in haz res and compromised nav. Hence why I fitted my fdl with fixed weapons. Most of my ships now have at least one fixed weapon so that I can still fire while I wait for their chaff to stop.

[Flip]

And also to target a submodule. Yeah, it’s pretty efficient.

Is it still worth hitting submodules? Now that the power plant doesn't (usually) blow up the ship when it gets to 0%, I can't really see the benefit of shooting it because you still need to take the hull down to destroy the ship.

When the power plant reaches 0, the ship can’t move nor shoot anymore. It’s easy to finish it off, then.

[Gorf]

I've noticed that with the big ships - the ones where you would normally hit the power plant - the benefit of having it hanging there in space after it's disabled does not outweigh the increased overall time to take the ship down. I don't bother targeting the PP any more.

[JohnLuke]

When the power plant reaches 0, the ship can’t move nor shoot anymore. It’s easy to finish it off, then.

And it's fun to use your thrusters to line up nose-to-nose with a 'conda with a dead power plant, and land that last shot right into the cockpit.

[TorTorden]

I've noticed that with the big ships - the ones where you would normally hit the power plant - the benefit of having it hanging there in space after it's disabled does not outweigh the increased overall time to take the ship down. I don't bother targeting the PP any more.

Firstly you do hull damage while shooting the pp so I personally do it anyway.
Secondly if you get a power plant down to 0% and it doesn't explode if you keep shooting it could still overload and blow up, had this happen quite a few times now where my target first stops and I then keep shooting the PP and the ship blows still having 30-40% hull left.

But for the most part hull reaches zero before the PP does.

[Rimsplitter]

And it's fun to use your thrusters to line up nose-to-nose with a 'conda with a dead power plant, and land that last shot right into the cockpit.

Thereby denying a fellow pilot the chance to use his escape pod. The equivalent of shooting a pilot as he parachutes to safety. A war crime.

[JohnLuke]

And it's fun to use your thrusters to line up nose-to-nose with a 'conda with a dead power plant, and land that last shot right into the cockpit.

Thereby denying a fellow pilot the chance to use his escape pod. The equivalent of shooting a pilot as he parachutes to safety. A war crime.

But he was a wanted pirate. I was saving the taxpayers a tremendous amount of money from having to house him in prison.

[Xebeth]

And it's fun to use your thrusters to line up nose-to-nose with a 'conda with a dead power plant, and land that last shot right into the cockpit.

Thereby denying a fellow pilot the chance to use his escape pod. The equivalent of shooting a pilot as he parachutes to safety. A war crime.

But he was a wanted pirate. I was saving the taxpayers a tremendous amount of money from having to house him in prison.

There's that, but of course it's also fun, at least the voices tell me it's fun, and I don't want to upset the voices (not after the last time........ so much blood!)

[Cmdr Kharma]

I'm beginning to like you.......