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Honorable Mention: I am still fascinated by the possibilities of the Carrack with 2 Ballista's added. One sitting atop the hangar bay, and one slid half way into the vehicle bay gives 4X Hellion VII torps is 400k+ alpha strike damage, plus 4X4 Scimitar V is 150k+ on each of 4 strikes. If when...

Even after my last disappointing analysis, I am still recommending that those who love this consider operating a Liberator and allowing players to bring 3 Eclipse, 12 M50 and 1 Lancer MIS and work as a strike group. If you really want to carry ships, that is 18 ships flying off your Lib, all...

Necro wizard!

Ask around for the combat flight training. TEST has some real pro mentors that can help you get on top of your game. Marcsand2 has just posted up about combat flight training this Friday. FYI, he has been flying combat a couple hours a day almost every day for more than half decade. There are...

The Idris is a Frigate. Next step smaller is the Polaris which is a Corvette. Next step smaller is the Perseus which is technically a gunboat. In WWII parlance it would be called a destroyer or "tin can", intended to hunt submarines. In today's parlance it would be called a "Missleboat"...

Yes well the question is what did CIG mean in this instance by the word "abilities"? This could be interpreted more than one way. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. My memory, which is not perfect; is that they were specific that the original BUKs did not change the armor nor reactor...

Each of the Vanguard frames has a single advantage over the others, regardless of what you put in with the BUK/module. IIRC, the Warden has speed, the Hoplite has hull points, the Harbinger has an S3 turret and the Sentinel has stealth. Right now the Sentinel stats are fubar but one supposes...

To be clear, the Vanguard has never had a buff. The difference in survivability of the Sentinal is all because of the EMP. Years ago Vanguards were easy to take down if you got really close and optimized against their poor turn rates. Now with the EMP, savvy pilots won't bull rush a Sentinel...

5 fixed hits the target so no reason to go smaller. Right now cannons do seem to be the better choice as noted above, but weapon stats are all nerfed and deliberately screwy, and you should not expect any of them to stay as is. CIG is messing with all the stats on a daily basis, so even...

The stealth on the Sentinel seems to be temporarily fubar, so it is not really wise to optimize around it at present despite how much you may want to launch missiles out of the inky black. Despite this I always choose the Eclipse reactors as they appear to be plenty of power. No word on...

Someone may have been confused that your sentence will go away over time if you get sent to prison. Currently if you cooperate and mine, a 7 hour sentence is over in 20 minutes. It is more fun to remove the crimestat, however. I say that everyone needs to know FPS combat and how to remove a...

Everyone should know how to clear a crimestat. There are plenty of tutorials on youtube to choose from.

What is the reason to mix rather than go for quad shots? Are you getting different locks at different times?

I don't know her handle. Apparently she has too many guys chase her when she plays to share that. We bumped into each other in another SC forum.

This below is what they were planning about half decade ago. I'm only aware of a single update: 2-3 years ago there was a press release that the Vanduul had attacked and destroyed an Outsider outpost on Leir with a pair of Void Bombers. Void Bombers cannot fit through the small wormhole out of...

Actually the Lancer is the largest ship that will fit through a small wormhole, but you're right. The A does have an advanatge in that it can go places the Lancer cannot. It will be interesting to see if it gains a stealth advantage as well. The move to small avionics is not one in the right...

I don't think the Hull A market can sustain a price increase. It's already $80 and the Lancer, which is twice the ship; is $110. Scorpius may go up.

I totally agree with voting with your wallet, and I think that's exactly what we have seen. We live in an age when minority opinions lack humility and restraint, and often try to drown out the more sensible majority. It's because we vote with our wallets that the loud minority has failed so...

Well said.

I didn't recommend Tiara look for great flexibility. Rather, I suggested she wait to develop fighter, mining, bounty hunting and hauling skills until she has learned FPS, stealth, and many simple gameplay dynamics. I'm a firm believer everyone should have at least two ships unless all they want...