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640,000CR in 45 minutes

Postby alphaalif » Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:24 pm

Got to the nearest CZ(Conflict Zone-High Intensity) in my home system at Fawaol System and got 640,000CR. Just scan for the highest threat or some big ships. Got to kill a few Pythons , huge white ship(forgot what it's called) and a dozen of other ships around 45 minutes.

Had my Vulture with me, gotta say, my x2 Beam lasers does pretty much damage although i need to use my heatsink(overheating) and chaff launcher(other ships behind me shooting) cautiously.

Do think i can earn more CR if i were to have a Wingman..


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Re: 640,000CR in 45 minutes

Postby TorTorden » Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:39 pm

A vulture in an ok high/haz res often do anything between 2 to 4 mil in the same time.

I actually find anything less than 2 mil in that time to be rather dissapointing.

And that's without power play bonuses.
With PP bonuses you could easily double it.

For instance higher ranked fer de lances can bring in as much as 320k alone.
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Re: 640,000CR in 45 minutes

Postby alphaalif » Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:47 pm

TorTorden wrote:A vulture in an ok high/haz res often do anything between 2 to 4 mil in the same time.

I actually find anything less than 2 mil in that time to be rather dissapointing.

And that's without power play bonuses.
With PP bonuses you could easily double it.



What?!! Oh my god, I'm such a noob!! I left PP actually. I don't know why i left but since most CMDRS said it's pointless and i just got a bit disheartened. But I'll look it up and try PP again tomorrow. Thank you for the advise CMDR.


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Re: 640,000CR in 45 minutes

Postby Zadkiel » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:22 pm

You're doing just fine. I think that commander was... well I'll be kind and say he was exaggerating. In a really good run in a high-res before horizons you could do 2mil in an hour, but post-horizons with the shield nerf, the SCB nerfs and the AI tweaks making it much more likely to get ganged up on, the Vulture's staying power has been much reduced. Personally I've moved from CZs to Compromised Nav Beacons - safer and better for raising combat rank as the average pilot rank is higher.

You might want to try using Pulse instead of Beams, less damage per shot, but you can maintain it for a much longer time - in my experience Pulse is better when you are in long fights versus large ships, while beams are better when you can burn your target down in just a few seconds, but those ships are less of a thread to you.
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Re: 640,000CR in 45 minutes

Postby TorTorden » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:53 pm

Granted I use a mil specced python or a ferdie but two mil is no problem in a res, remember combat bonds pay considerably less than bounties.

And they tank considerably better.
So not only will that deadly anaconda go down faster its also often worth at least 200k more than in CZ.

Throw in a couple of 300k+ fer-de-lance npc's and 2 mil for 45 minutes is not exagerating the least.

I believe its Zachary Hudson and lavigny duval that has bonus to bounty payout in their affected systems.
I think you must be rank 3 to get a small 20% bonus that might increase depending on the powers weekly ranking, if your power makes the number one spot that bonus become 50%.

If you make rank 5 (which takes an insane amount of grind IMO) I suspect you get the rank 2 bonus and an additional 100% once I had that I spent one hour in a high res with a great spawn and got a whopping 16 mil for it.

But that was the best spawn i had seen the whole month and it took me a three day grind hauling merits to get the rank.
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Re: 640,000CR in 45 minutes

Postby TorTorden » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:55 pm

And you are certainly not doing wrong, just being able to stay in cz for 45 minutes straight showes some skill, do it wrong and you suddenly have 8+ hostiles shooting you at once :)

Even my combat anaconda has a hard time when that happens :)

Winging for bounties is not pointless, but it is one of those things fd kind of got wrong.
Its currently incentivised to go solo since all bounties are split between wing members.
But the fun sure increases.

If people are fixated on credits per hour they might say so. But if you really care about creds you will be simply trading, find an ok loop and a 150mil trade conda will get you a little over a mil every 6-8 minutes. ;/
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