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325A combat and tricks for the hunter: View: https://youtu.be/zPZ6Y-5XO40

She’s married and her husband is a recently retired US Navy SEAL. He may join too. Did you want me to forward your offer?

So I have a friend looking at the game and we sat down to talk about the kinds of styles, roles and capabilities people can choose in their starter ship. She is mostly interested in combat, both pilot and FPS, but wants some small ability to carry cargo. She wants an endurance package with a...

I still can't agree. Watch the second vid in the original post. That guy did not self destruct and he cleared the mission with just 2 more minutes. That is less mission variation than caused by where the target spawns. Are we going to complain he makes too much money too? Somehow it's an...

Well the reason he blew his own ship was that once that happens, the NPC pirates no longer sense a threat and power down. Who is to say a real person would not do the same? I think y'all are making much of nothing. People blow or claim their own ships all the time. As stated above, they do it...

In the event you've seen the CIG vids with blade kills. . .here's the real thing. View: https://youtu.be/z2-ruqJncsw

If they upgrade the chin mount on the Polaris the way I hope, he'll have that too.

Except there is nothing broken about boarding an NPC ship. The thing people really feel oddly about is self destructing your own ship, based upon the notion that you'll simply get another. News flash: Alpha is all based upon everyone getting replacement ships, so blowing yours up really is...

This is the kind of theorycrafting I love despite how we get chided for it! If you have a love for the Medium ships, take an interest in the Apollo. Yes, it is named a Large ship, but it uses almost all Medium components including the Q drive, which really suits it as a companion for the...

The Polaris has about twice the S3 missile capacity of the MIS, the HH is certainly a bristling gunboat and the Ares is a flying big-ass gun. Seems you're getting what you want.

That's very kind of you. I am familiar with Hughes Six Cornerstones for fleet tactics, and the seventh he developed for the Marines. What I am really after are similar principles that apply to SC, given what we already know. They're quite different from what Hughes recommends because of the...

Yes, you nailed it. Stealth cannot use its own ping and instead has to search for EM, IR and an opponent fleet's active ping, while avoiding that piing through low RCS. (We don't yet have RCS figures for any ship, but the EX is likely to be among the lowest because of its tiny size.) One...

Lots of great stuff here and too much to address directly. Let me just reiterate that the function of recon is to obtain information about the position and strength of an enemy, and the function of stealth recon is to do so without notice. It really is that simple. To keep any fleet safe you...

The larger ones are supposed to be harder to shake, and they fly faster and farther. I like the stats on S3, just I want to know how effective they are. I'm also a Vanguard guy and it is a key advantage that most dogfighters can't carry any S3 missiles. A Vanguard can carry 8, so that's 4...

I don't think there is a viable place in SC for spies of any kind. I think the only way to combat the problem of spying is for leadership in every org to hold their cards as close to the vest as possible. Elaborate schemes that require great confidentiality over long periods of time are likely...

I think of exploits as doing things the game was never intended to do. Glitching through a wall is an exploit, and is a form of Meta-Gaming, which I loath. Same with spying by playing more than one character and passing intel between them regardless of context. Spying is Meta-Gaming. Eve was...

It's not an exploit. Once locked doors and breaching charges are enabled, you'll be able to do this same thing. This is just clever thinking outside the box. We need guys like this here at TEST.

Why do you assume it is an exploit? For now, this is the way the game is planned to work. No one can lock their doors and if they could, you'd need a breeching charge just to get onto the 890, which is not yet in game.

I'm having this conversation elsewhere, and was asked "why use all the same drive"? Well because this is necessary to move as a group at optimum speed, and because if you don't then any micro-jumping you do across the battlefield will spread your groups all over. I dunno who has observed much...

Okay so are the missiles not one-shotting because of reduced damage, or are the S3s not hitting as often as they used to? The calculators show missile damage that ought to require most small targets to get hit twice by any S3 missile. So is it a fair bet that 2 S3 missiles will kill most small...