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  1. Shadow Reaper

    Thoughts on the Valkyrie?

    I agree, and it is important to consider the Valk's lack of missiles. Right now we don't think much of it because missile suck so bad, but one hopes they will matter in the future. If I had a choice between flying the Sentinel, Connie, Valk, Mercury or Corsair in combats against each other...
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    the Sentinel

    So, more to ponder on the Sentinel. Suppose you want to run short "day tripper" missions with it, and don't want the beds, kitchen and toilet for a couple hours. It appears, that each of the Vanguards have 4 swappable modules counting port fore and aft, then starboard fore and aft, the 4...
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    the Sentinel

    So has anyone tried out ballistics in the Sentinel, tried putting a small reactor in to see if with shields down and big reactor off, it is especially more stealthy, etc?
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    Predicting the future of ship to ship combat

    I would love to find that spreadsheet. I poked around and could not, so if anyone here has a link, please do share. I'm not down with the notion that a single small ship should never be able to destroy a bigger one. I think it ought to be fantastically hard for a Mustang to down a StarG...
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    ". . .but bounty hunting is a complicated profession."

    View: https://youtu.be/XmI7WKrAtqs
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    What do you look for in SC spaceships these days?

    You want to take those elk before they're cumin to the rut.
  7. Shadow Reaper

    Virpil restock and Constellation Alpha pre-order and Sunlight Dynamics 6DOF stick

    Wow. But again no chair mount. I am annoyed. Color me annoyed. Annoyed I am, I say. ANNOYED!!! It's a funny word, like "turtles". Just feels funny in the mouth.
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    What do you look for in SC spaceships these days?

    If you find elk that have no sage in their diet, it is very hard to tell from beef.
  9. Shadow Reaper

    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    Thanks for this. I was not aware. It will be interesting to see if you can carry just one big fuel tank, or perhaps two if you're gathering both kinds of fuel, and have the rest available for cargo. Then you can refuel your fighter escorts as needed, refine more fuel as needed, etc. I have...
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    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    I'm not familiar with any stats for main engine acceleration, but I think even unladen, the SF takes more on the order of a full minute to reach top speed. That's just from watching the vids. It takes 4.5 seconds to turn 90*, while the Vanguard takes about 1.1 seconds. It is unfortunate that...
  11. Shadow Reaper

    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    I think we've confused several issues. We were speaking of the SF, not the StarG. I would not attack a StarG with a single Hoplite. Maybe with a Sentinal. The StarG has an S8 turret and S3 missiles. However, it has greatly reduced cargo, and I doubt you could use it as a hauler for other...
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    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    Okay so, if it were me, I likewise would not want to attack anything as large as an SF with just one ship. I actually theorycrafted an outline for 3 Vanguards attacking in small groups about a year or so ago, and I think I did a scenario with a Warlock and a Cutty, but I'll indulge again this...
  13. Shadow Reaper

    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    There are lots of ways to attack an SF. We don't know enough details about what the actual situations will be yet to say I'd choose one over another, but for example, when CIG was asked whether shields mitigate spike missile damage, they did not answer. It's entirely likely the missile...
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    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    Last I heard the plan is still to treat distortion damage from weapons, spike missiles (Arrester IIIs) and EMP all the same--they don't damage ship's components at all. Distortion weapons will go against shields first, but then go to the computer and everything run by the computer will go down...
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    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    You're convincing me. I am however, still leery of the Drake reputation of fielding tissue paper. Most would need to be quite crazy to attack a Kraken for financial gain, so perhaps there mere presence of the thing is enough to dissuade. Simplest though might be a Hull E with an Idris flying...
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    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    I was thinking that too! but if you're going to go that high a price for a transport, I think the Idris is probably a better choice. It can land on terrestrial surfaces, so you skip the entire loading/unloading stage of transport which is fraught with peril. The Idris really is a superb hauler...
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    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    If you load the entire nose of the Hoplite with distortion, it does almost 20k DPS. The Starfarer's shields are about 90k, so with the current numbers a Hoplite needs to have a helpless SF within 1,500 meters for less than 5 seconds to knock it senseless. This is leaving the 3s Arrester...
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    Ship for dangerous traderoutes

    You didn't say how many players would be crewing. IMHO, it would be unwise to fly any of those alone. Someone will just take it from you. IIUC, AI and NPCs are all slated to be less capable as turret gunners than real players, and NPCs can't serve two roles, so they're no good to fight if...
  19. Shadow Reaper

    TEST FPS Weapons

    Why do you prefer the SMG over the LMG? Have you tried the Demeco?
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    Sixth anniversary of TEST Squadron and my membership!

    Woot woot woot!!! Congrats!!!
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