Vulture Rulez!

[Harma]

But if you can kill anything without any risk, where is the fun ?

There's always a risk, we're human, we have a tendency to slam into Asteroids because we become fixated on homing on on that damn conda. Scrapey scrapey boom boom.

Or was that just me then?

Ooops, should have kept that one quiet

[Flip]

Not just you!

[TomoRosso]

But if you can kill anything without any risk, where is the fun ?

Oh there is risk alright, exited SC at a strong signal source to find an NPC wing 3 x cobras and a type 9 - all wanted, thought to myself "this Vulture kicks ass - how hard can it be to take this wing out" managed to drop 2 Cobras before I sploded and a 400k insurance buy back ... but wow in a one-on-one it shreds pretty much anything out here.

[Harma]

Not just you!

Ah, but have you just gone and &"^!*^ done it again! I was wondering why the conda kept disappearing!

4 million in bounties.....gone

[Flip]

Ouch!

It has happened to me twice since beta 1, but not in a row. And not with 4 millions in bounties waiting to be cashed!

[Harma]

I was just about to go cash in, saw a big blip and thought "Ooooh, one more will be nice"

Hey ho, with the new bounties and my Vulture won't take me long to get it back, and more!

Then its FDL time

[Malphator]

But if you can kill anything without any risk, where is the fun ?

There will "always" be risk, the insurance on the Vulture (at least for non alpha/beta) isn't exactly cheap (250k when last I checked) Elite is becoming more about groups... Imagine, your flying a Vulture, you think your kick ass and can kill anything... Then a wing of 3 Elite or Dangerous Vultures with shields as beefy as your own each with slightly different weapons loadouts... You either run or hope that they don't work well as a team, otherwise your buggered!

I was doing a rank mission to kill three pirates in a nearby anarchy system. Okay, fine. Been there, done that. So there I am trawling around the central star, waiting for the USS's to start popping up when I get a 'diction. Submit, figuring here we go, time to get my three pirates. Well. It wasn't three scrubs in Vipers and Eagles. It was a full on pirate fleet that included two vultures and two FDLs. Plus a dropship and some Cobra's for good measure. That was as much as I was able to get a glimpse of before I had to bail or fail.

So... yeah. There's still plenty of risk.

[Antmax]

I bought a Vulture on Saturday and parked my Asp at a nearby system while I went and joined my group at supporting the alliance and bolstering our floundering faction there. The Vulture is amazing, I could earn as I used to get in my asp. weak signal sources will leave you stuff typically worth 2000 - 6000 a ton all pure profit. And the vulture eats through anything NPC from sidewinder through python with ease.

In less than 24 hours 3 - 10 of us changed the faction influence by almost 90% decimating the previous dominant one (The background sim really needs to be updated more than once every 24 hours, or influence slowed down)

After that I went back sold my Asp, and set off home towards Alioth. Stopped at 78 Ursae Majoris. Joined a low conflict zone and was destroying everything and didn't lose a single ring on my D5 shields with 1t shield booster (C5 equivalent less 11 tons). It was so easy I did get bored. Pythons didn't stand a chance and these guys all have upgraded hulls.

I'm starting to think I might be better with a weaker ship. Otherwise combat will get boring fast. This thing has the speed of an ASP, agility of an Eagle and the shields of a tank. almost 17ly jump range and 16-20t of cargo.

Starting to think maybe the 10m price was more realistic because it chews up vipers with millitary armor in no time and that's with a scanner and pulse laser followed by pulse and gimballed burst.

Python with a buddy, I can just follow the python and ignore his buddy completely and not even bother to evade the pythons scatter cannon much.