ThinderBTW What's the advantages of mixing Corrosive with Incendiary shells?Incendiaries do stuff with shields since they're switched to Thermal damage. Corrosives reduce the hull armour value, so when the shields are out, other projectiles have a little more punch on the affected target.
Aunty SledgeThinderThat's another thing... I only play Solo.
BTW What's the advantages of mixing Corrosive with Incendiary shells?
Yeah I play solo as well, AX combat is the only thing I do in open.
Corrosive Shells reduce the hardness of the targets armour by 25%, so everything hitting it does more damage. You only need one weapon with it, so if you have multiple Multi-Cannons make a smaller one Corrosive.
Incendiary Rounds do more damage to shields (1.9x) but less to armour (0.85x). If you want to go pure ballistic it's not a bad way to go but it will run hot.
Personally I like a mix of thermal vent beam lasers for shields, MC with Auto-Loaders, and a single MC with Corrosive. It runs cold, preserves capacitor usage, and beams don't run out of ammo so I save the MCs for larger targets once the shields are down.
MeowersThinderBTW What's the advantages of mixing Corrosive with Incendiary shells?
Incendiaries do stuff with shields since they're switched to Thermal damage. Corrosives reduce the hull armour value, so when the shields are out, other projectiles have a little more punch on the affected target.
(that's not an AX loadout of course, lol, I've been revamping my anti-ship things the last time I played)
IndyNoting all of the advice. Thank you to all of you. Very much.
For example, I didn't realize Robigo (sp?) was still viable. I'll have to give it a shot. (I do mostly play solo. Although, I dip into Open on occasion to help a few people doing BGS stuff by winning HI ground CZs for their factions.) I appreciate the advice about the passengers; I didn't realize that could be problematic. I figured it was just like Trade/Cargo runs but with people.
Regarding AX... That's my next ship build, actually. My Chieftain, named "AX Murderer". (Not sure if my Target Build for it is visible in my profile. If it is, I'd welcome critiques to my plan.) Do Hydra's reward a specific amount and that's why the "2 Hydras" is mentioned?
IndyDo Hydra's reward a specific amount and that's why the "2 Hydras" is mentioned?They give you a good amount of creds in PilotFed bonds, and you also could pick up a "Destroy 2 Hydras" mission on the defended station, for 40-50mil more. And, well, that feeling of 'I nailed those bastards solo' of course, lol.
Aunty SledgeI've never had problems with interdictions, and just ignore the in-flight passenger requests. It's such a short journey they don't complain. Human interdiction attempts are easy to avoid in a Python.
You do need to be mindful of doing the trip with wanted people, if you get scanned the station could become hostile. If you go back to complete the mission and there isn't a free landing pad then go back into super cruise and try again. Saying that, there isn't much security at space stations.
As for the AX build, I'd go with a class 6 cargo rack for 64 limpets instead of 16. Move the repair to the 5 slot, and downgrade the class 5 guardian module to class 4. You get a 4x improvement on limpets for a minor downgrade on module defence. Also add Anti-Guardian Zone Resistance to all guardian modules and weapons or a Glaive is going to reduce you to a hulk in seconds.
Finally, and this is just my OCD kicking in here, but I'd go large beam and a small guass to optimise slot usage. Someone could do the AX math and tell me I'm wrong there, but I hate not optimising module and weapon slots.
Shg56It looks like that fuel-rats financed the development and creation of SCO FSD.
MiseriI would certainly remind folks thinking about using a SCO for deep exploration to watch their fuel gauges closely when out in the void
