Kasumi GotoHopefully, there will be no odd malfunctions catapulting players straight into Witch Space into a dozen Hydras. Or near a Titan without preparation. As funny as that would be to an observer.

Glen van Ross

Honestly, that would be amazing. Jump drive malfunctions were a thing in Frontier: Elite 2, (and possibly earlier, but I didn't play the very first Elite game). Would be fun if you let you drive maintenance slack a little and occasionally ended up somewhere unexpected.

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First of all, if you fly correctly in pve, any ship can have the same time on target, the slightly higher pitch and yaw of a corvette wont make it better for that, it just might mean most people prefer it. I will admit the hardpoints and c8 distributor allow for more flexibility in builds. Plus if you fly the cutter in flight assist on its pretty annoying so i understand why people dont wanna use it.

Ignoring the laws of physics does nothing for you in combat, flying "correctly" with a less maneuverable ship neither and that's a fact.

Most people doesn't prefer the Corvette, most good PVE players would rather go for the FDL, as for flying without Flight Assist, it doesn't increase pitch, roll and yaw rates, it just allows you to keep your nose pointed to your target out of your velocity vector, which results in exactly what I was saying: Time on target equals faster kill. IF you are skilled enough to stop the rotations you might be able to gain on your time on target.

And there is catch to this flying; it works best at short range, from long to mid-range it is not very useful and before you can come anywhere close to a well fitted Corvette, chances are you'll have no shields, as a matter of fact I practice mid-range engagements vs ships like the Viper or the Imperial Courier in normal flight mode using all 4 axis, Throttle, FWD or BWD, booster and thruster and Fixed Lasers, I never really feel the need for turning Flight Assist Off.

The corvette has more than a maneuverability advantage over the Cutter, even with a Grade 7 instead of 8 Shield Generator it can reinforce this with higher grades Shield Cell Banks, as a result you got 114.0/s instead of 111.0/s Shield Reinforcement with their respective 2 top SCB.

The Corvette weaponry is also more powerful, 2 X Grade 4 plus one Grade 3 which is a 3C Beam Laser [Fixed] Long range XXXXX Thermal Vent on mine, the Secondary weapons (lover Grades) makes little difference, my two 1E Beam Laser [Fixed] Long range XXXXX Thermal Vent like the Grade 3 have a 6000m Fall Off start like the Grade 3.

And last but not least, the 8E Power Distributor on the Corvette is suited to weapons and shield needs, vs the 7E Power Distributor of the Cutter, meaning Power recharge time is inferior, recharge rate is superior for an A grade: 4.800 vs 4.000 for the Cutter.

Visibly, the Corvette is designed for combat with modules that are supported by power supply, more shield recharge capabilities and heavier weaponry.

ps, the reason why the Cutter handles like a pig is because it is 200 t heavier than the Corvette stock.

Flight assist off much helps in combat, less so in pve to be fair but it still helps. keeping your nose pointed to your target out of your velocity vector as you said is an advantage and having precise control over your thrusters (especially in boost) makes the ship handle and feel a lot different. And its especially apparent on the cutter, not sure why you are trying to discount that argument. The additional 200t of the cutter are not the reason for its worse pitch and yaw, each ship has its own set maneuvering characteristics, it is affected by weight but you cant compare one 500t ship to another and chalk up the differences to the weight... even if the thrusters are the same, which they arent even in this case.

If you dont feel the need to turn flight assist off in pve thats fine but there is a reason people toggle it off for turning. You can just move the ship around better, youll have better time on target and will be harder to hit. (not relevant on large ships but on mediums and smalls)

Also, you choosing to compare the shield reinforcement by banks per second stat is hilarious. Total hp is much more important than additional hp in banks. And the cutter has more of that. Both total hp in banks (if you give both ships 4 banks) and raw hp in shields.

The corvette does have better weapons than the cutter, i do acknowledge that but

the point i was trying to make is that for pve my cutter build seems to often work better than any corvette build ive tried

. I simply cannot do the same rail setup on that corvette and that rail setup is the fastest way ive personally found to solo a cz or massacre missions which are considered engame pve i would say. (if you exclude ax)
And not just that, its also more convenient. Having 6km of your maximum damage is a huge upside to the usual beam/multi setup.
If you have a setup that can do kills faster, feel free to share it, im happy to try anything.

The additional 200t of the cutter are not the reason for its worse pitch and yaw

the point i was trying to make is that for pve my cutter build seems to often work better than any corvette build ive tried

SuretterusI use my cutter as a cargo bus. I would think it is such a slow turner for shooting NPC's. As for flight assist you can just switch it on to tumble and off to stabilize. Doesnt everybody do that?

Anyway what is this message about supercruise overcharged FSD? Is that the [SCO] or scotty drive? What does it do?