33010623D - Weapons Test
24 Jun 2015PrimetimeCasual
33010623DMALLOC / ONIZUKA RING
Looking through the different stations bounty boards in V1688 AQUILAE didn't turn up any interesting jobs, so I decided to check out various signals while in supercruise. Most of them were uninteresting, until I stumbled upon an Eagle with a bounty on its head.
They had full shields, but after the last weapon upgrade (gimbals instead of fixed mounts, torpedo launcher added), I had to try them out.
The torpedo dropped about 60% of the shields, which was a bit underwhelming for 15k credits per shot, but the gimballed pulse lasers made a huge difference. Only problem is that I tend to aim the ships vector below the target and the lower weapons mount can't get a decent lock this way.
At the final station I visited for cashing in on the bounty claim, I also got lucky on the board - two delivery missions to the same destination. Both not high paying but together worth the trip.
I also finalized my plans for the next wave of ship upgrades for my Eagle - about 80k worth of equipment. Sounds reasonable, and the new spec with better shield generators and reinforced bulkheads should then be enough to bounty hunt my way to a bigger ship.
Log ends.