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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby StaticRadion » Fri Sep 11, 2015 8:27 am

Skipp wrote:I like stuff that goes pew-pew and I since everything up to asps (including) dies within 5sec, i don't ever want to change my loadout. Fighting bigger ships is also a breeze because lasers just eat through shields hehe

Oh your ship is made of pew pew LOL. See at one point I flew something similar to your ship even with the same paint. The thing was one day I tried messing around with the A spec thrusters and they became something I could not fly without. It happened again with the 3B+5B shield cells because together they are almost exactly a shield ring, you get 5 charges, and you can use them at the same time and not overheat even with the c7 powerplant.

For a long time I settled into a Python with a B7 powerplant and had more than enough power, but then the prismatic shields began to haunt my dreams. I had to try them, I had to have them, I had to save a crap ton of money, but eventually everything was perfect. Now the only thing I have to do is nitpick over my weapon choices.

Really I have been thinking about selling my garaged Vulture to upgrade to a FDL just so I have something to work on that requires a great deal of attention to detail to make well balanced.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby StaticRadion » Fri Sep 11, 2015 8:34 am

TorTorden wrote:Hunting high and low for a pair of class 2 gimballed beam lasers, since apparantly the station I keep my python sells c3 gimballed beams, but not c2....


Has the change gone through that made the class 2 gimballed burst lasers do more damage to armor now? If so I think they have almost the same dps, but do less damage to shields and more to armor so you might want to try them if they are available in the mean time.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby TorTorden » Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:49 am

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TorTorden wrote:Hunting high and low for a pair of class 2 gimballed beam lasers, since apparantly the station I keep my python sells c3 gimballed beams, but not c2....


Has the change gone through that made the class 2 gimballed burst lasers do more damage to armor now? If so I think they have almost the same dps, but do less damage to shields and more to armor so you might want to try them if they are available in the mean time.


I wouldnt know :P
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Rodgeirr » Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:09 am

I got three ranks in Federation last night. Man what a pain in the rear. I'm thinking of getting a Vulture just for grinding my rep, my Tradeconda shouldn't be taken on kill missions with it's A4 shields, especially against other 'Condas. So... take a look at this guys.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/14A5C4A3D5C4B3C15150n---4bf4534u-.AwRj4zyA.AwiMIyuI?bn=Combat%20Vulture

Lemme know what you think.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby JohnLuke » Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:21 am

Rodgeirr wrote:I got three ranks in Federation last night. Man what a pain in the rear. I'm thinking of getting a Vulture just for grinding my rep, my Tradeconda shouldn't be taken on kill missions with it's A4 shields, especially against other 'Condas. So... take a look at this guys.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/14A5C4A3D5C4B3C15150n---4bf4534u-.AwRj4zyA.AwiMIyuI?bn=Combat%20Vulture

Lemme know what you think.


Looks like a pretty solid build for the money, Rodgeirr. When you can, I'd probably upgrade the power distributor next (faster capacitor recharging) and then the shield generator.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Rodgeirr » Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:27 am

JohnLuke wrote:
Rodgeirr wrote:I got three ranks in Federation last night. Man what a pain in the rear. I'm thinking of getting a Vulture just for grinding my rep, my Tradeconda shouldn't be taken on kill missions with it's A4 shields, especially against other 'Condas. So... take a look at this guys.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/14A5C4A3D5C4B3C15150n---4bf4534u-.AwRj4zyA.AwiMIyuI?bn=Combat%20Vulture

Lemme know what you think.


Looks like a pretty solid build for the money, Rodgeirr. When you can, I'd probably upgrade the power distributor next (faster capacitor recharging) and then the shield generator.


Thanks for the reply. The only problem with that is the power plant can't handle those upgrades. It's EXTREMELY tight as is. I'd have to drop other modules down in rank in order to do those. I am willing to take suggestions!!! I mean with how the build is now, I had to move the frameshift drive to a lower priority so when hardpoints are extended it's off, and cargo scoop/doors, they're disabled all the time.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Grifs » Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:14 pm

Rodgeirr wrote:Thanks for the reply. The only problem with that is the power plant can't handle those upgrades. It's EXTREMELY tight as is. I'd have to drop other modules down in rank in order to do those. I am willing to take suggestions!!! I mean with how the build is now, I had to move the frameshift drive to a lower priority so when hardpoints are extended it's off, and cargo scoop/doors, they're disabled all the time.

If you can bear with not using two banks simultaneously, this might help.
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Vulture A
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Here's what I have atm. Prolly not too ideal in RES farming though.
http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/04A5D ... mental%20A

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Rodgeirr » Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:35 pm

Hey Grifs.

Those are some good ideas. Your Vulture B concept looks like that's the one. I've been playing with fits for a while this morning (so much for work) and it looks like you hit the nail on the head with that one!

I appreciate your advice.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Grifs » Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:49 pm

Glad it worked! This and the FDL are a headache to optimize without compromising the other.

Edit: On another note, you've given me an idea for a multirole Vulture; I don't really need the C4 space for another cell bank. Cheers.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Rodgeirr » Fri Sep 11, 2015 1:00 pm

Yeah I noticed that when I bought the FDL after she was released. Quickly switched back to a Python. The FDL's power plant (and by extension the Vulture) is just too damn small. So when I get home in a couple hours I'll see about getting my Vulture.
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