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Just out of curiosity, what is the interest in getting locked up for indecent exposure? I have never understood that.

Just bear in mind that even with a full crew who happen to all be aboard and ready to rock when fighting starts, ships like that are going to find it extremely hard to defend against fighters. You should never expect that just because aship has turrets that it does not need fighter escort...

Well don't leave us in suspense. What is up with that?

Privateers are generally distinguished from pirates as serving a cause or flag, but essentially acting as pirates. So IIRC, Sir Francis Drake was flying under letters of Marque, or a license from the Crown of England to pillage Spanish tradesman in the Caribbean in order to cut the supply of...

Probably the only reason I know anything about the lore is I don't have a machine to play on right now, but I indulge myself with one game at a time and have chosen SC for the next decade or so, so I am sating myself with things like lore and game dynamics instead of flying two hours a day...

One of my favorite commentators, BoredGamer; thinks we will see release 2.4 and then 2.5 soon. He is guessing the Reliant will be flyable in 2.5. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp6RZUb_gWU

To the best of my knowledge there are at least 9 factions. 5 of them are governments in some sense: UEE, Xi-An, Banu, Vanduul and Krell. There is the "unaligned" world Leir (the Outsiders), which is termed "Lawless" but might consider itself under its own law since it has its own defense...

I don't think so. The variants matrix says it is flight ready but not available, so one wonders if the EMP's will be restricted access. That would suck, but would be understandable; and would require that I steal one or ten. I must have one even more than I must have any particular ship...

The latter. In other words, recon in "enemy" or dangerous territory. Which ship would you be most comfortable gathering intel in Vanduul space? You don't need to be able to fight, but you need to be able to hide, evade, escape and actually gather intel while you're there, so good sensors are...

I would be extremely interested to find out at what range various ships can detect the Sabre as I would use that info to select weapons. It seems to me possible the Omni's could be used to hit from medium range and outside the detectable zone, and if you know you can't be seen, you're able to...

I'm curious what the people think about best in class for the deep recon role. The Ghost Hornet, Sabre, Khartu-Al and Tana all seem might serve the role. Has anyone checked their signatures? Is there a way to compare them in game? Maybe get three friends flying them together and have them...

In order to court opportunity, one wants in general to be able to go into any space. Vanduul is the hardest, followed by Pirate. If you can stay out of specific kinds of trouble (by not getting caught) one hopes you can eventually visit all the known worlds. I don't know who has been...

Who here plans to own a Warlock? It will be hugely instructive to get a group together and let the Warlock EMP a handful of ships over and over so we can compile systematic data on how various ships recover. Does it take some longer than others? Do some systems take longer than others? Does...

I haven't named any ships in SC yet, but presuming I start with a Reliant and Carrack they will be christened "Tasty Bits" and "Vortex Chariot". Also presuming I find privateering to be as lucrative and fulfilling as I hope, I'll be naming hundreds of other ships. That'll be fun.

What is it cut from? Is that a sintered powder metal?

There may be another role it can fill. Artillery support is an interesting notion against big, slow targets, and keeping opposing fighters busy with missiles. While not a flattering role, and not the best at it, it may prove to be important to stay back and hammer highly shielded targets from...

Can you explain to those of us who aren't yet flying, in what ways you have observed this? Is it harder to lock missiles? Does it have to be closer to lock guns? Is it wearing stealth armor and if not, could it be improved by stealth armor? And please tell us how you like the stronger...

What is the function of a "small" salvage ship? I take it you just grab parts, but do you need a real salvage ship for that? I read once that someone was guessing the Reliant would be good for that, but I can't guess why. It has a little cargo space, but so does the Redeemer.

That's what Ripcord was referring to with "trigger discipline". Even if you are flying all lasers and can't run out of ammo, most ships ability to recharge their shields is tied to limits in the reactor and weapons, so refusing to fire when you don't need to is always the best option. Also...

I would really love to see a Testie combat primer one day. I had no idea that some missiles take longer to lock than others. I'm sure just the issue of missiles is complex. Generally I don't like them because in every vid I've seen, they never hit. They don't even hit things like...