Postby Schmobius » Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:21 am
After finding that trading is effectively nerfed right now, probably due to the "free the slaves" CG (everyone's buying up slaves, so there's none left for trading), I decided to sell my anaconda to raise cash. I only use it for mining now, and very infrequently.... thought of turning it into an exploration ship, but I can buy another one at some point in the future.
What did I do with that cash? Put an A8 powerplant and shield generator on the Cutter. Even giving up one class 8 slot for the shield generator, I still have over 500 tons of cargo capacity, and a buggy. (I may go back to a class 6 at some point to maximize cargo again, though.)
I got the itch to go back into the CZ, especially when I saw there were other commanders in Exioce.
I want to think commanders Aizria, Lanceor (I think I have that spelled right from memory....), HeliosFCB, and Jack Dunhill for being in my wing at various times, and helping me get vengeance for my blown-the-hell-up Cutter! (I even got to ram another Cutter to death tonight, which felt glorious. I had about 2.5 rings of shields this time though, and was able to quickly throw 4 pips to systems.)
I think I made about 2 million in combat bonds for the Order tonight (which is about what I lost out on last night), so hopefully that helps the war effort next time it updates!
I didn't get to send a capital ship packing tonight (the one time I could have, it was bugged), but overall, a good outing. I am very pleased with the shield-tankiness of a Cutter with an A8 shield and 8 class A shield boosters, that's for sure. I think it took about 10 particle accelerator blasts to get me into trouble. And of course, when you aren't being stupid like I was last night, it's very easy to bug out in a Cutter. (It's fast, and nothing can mass-lock you.)
