Elite: Game talk

26 Mar 2021, 1:58pm
I am more concerned that you use Mamba with sustained damage weapons. It is pass / boom ship.
26 Mar 2021, 2:32pm
At first I thought the free T-6 was the worst of the 3 CG rewards this week. But thinking more upon it, it may actually be quite good. For example: transporting the free T-6 over vast distances (e.g. to Colonia) would probably cost next to nothing.
26 Mar 2021, 2:34pm
The CG rewards were distributed.... The type-6 is NOT 0cr. ...or is it ... I get 12k transfer fee but Inara shows it as 0cr... perhaps it is the modules.

Sigh, I will go to He Bo to check.
26 Mar 2021, 2:35pm
EpisparhThe CG rewards were distributed.... The type-6 is NOT 0cr.


Oh, that's a bummer. Is it valued the same as if one bought it?

Edit: I'm just being lazy, I will go see for myself.
26 Mar 2021, 2:37pm
EpisparhI am more concerned that you use Mamba with sustained damage weapons. It is pass / boom ship.

With the way I've set up the lasers, there isn't much sustained damage. I have 90 dps for 6 seconds. That just about covers the time between a target coming into range and passing by. By the time I'm taking the next pass, the lasers are ready to fire again. It's almost perfectly balanced. I just need to control myself and not fire too early, while the target is still in the damage falloff zone.
26 Mar 2021, 2:43pm
EpisparhThe CG rewards were distributed.... The type-6 is NOT 0cr. ...or is it ... I get 12k transfer fee but Inara shows it as 0cr... perhaps it is the modules.


Transfer menu shows some credits for transferring or ~940k from "remote sell", so it's not 0 cr.
26 Mar 2021, 2:47pm
Meowers
EpisparhThe CG rewards were distributed.... The type-6 is NOT 0cr. ...or is it ... I get 12k transfer fee but Inara shows it as 0cr... perhaps it is the modules.



Transfer menu shows some credits for transferring or ~940k from "remote sell", so it's not 0 cr.


Yeah, I saw the bad news at my base. Gonna pay about 11K to transfer it. I guess there was nothing special about this T-6 other than it was free (but not zero credits).
26 Mar 2021, 2:50pm
Thanatos au GrimmusYeah, I saw the bad news at my base. Gonna pay about 11K to transfer it. I guess there was nothing special about this T-6 other than it was free (but not zero credits).


Maybe it's the cost of stock modules though.
26 Mar 2021, 2:53pm
Meowers
Thanatos au GrimmusYeah, I saw the bad news at my base. Gonna pay about 11K to transfer it. I guess there was nothing special about this T-6 other than it was free (but not zero credits).



Maybe it's the cost of stock modules though.


That would be awesome, but I'm not optimistic about our chances.
26 Mar 2021, 3:19pm
Sold all modules. It is regular type-6. Not even discounted one. I will keep it for 1-2 weeks and then dump it.

Indeed the Alliance reward is pure trash.
26 Mar 2021, 3:54pm
EpisparhSold all modules. It is regular type-6. Not even discounted one. I will keep it for 1-2 weeks and then dump it.

Indeed the Alliance reward is pure trash.


They should have made the reward, a Type-8. Now, THAT would be something!
26 Mar 2021, 3:54pm
If it makes you feel any better the Clipper and FAS rewards were the same and those required real effort.
26 Mar 2021, 4:00pm
BurstarIf it makes you feel any better the Clipper and FAS rewards were the same and those required real effort.

Oh boi, that hurts!

Well...I will draw a circle around my FC and then that junk goes where it belongs.
26 Mar 2021, 4:04pm
I am happy about the double engineered modules, although I needed to buy another "storage Viper MkIII" to hold them.
26 Mar 2021, 4:04pm
Sakashiro
RapisI did a test, threat 6 wing-kill missions, opponent Python or FDL + 2 or 3 Vultures
Ship Mamba - hull Military Grade Composite + heavy duty G4 alternately Mirrored Surface Composite without engineers. I did a few tasks and didn’t notice much difference. Hull healt 70 - 88%. An engineer could change the situation in favor of a mirror.


Your observation is correct. I was wrong about phasing sequence damage; it's actually absolute, so more or less thermal resistance won't make a difference.

I recently threw out the reactive surface armor and replaced it with heavy duty military grade. I also threw out all the HRPs (I can see Epi roll his eyes right now. ) and replaced them with Guardian SRPs, because when I played that threat level 6 wing mission, I ran out of shield long before I came even close to running out of hull. So for me at least it makes sense to make the shields as strong as possible. I don't have prismatics yet, but the SRPs (2x class 2 + 1x class 3) achieve almost the same effect. The downside is that their power priorities can't be configured; they're always on, so they're effectively always in priority group 1, even though the shield generator isn't.

i use shield cell bank ,, 4A, 3B and 2B as well as 3 shield boosters of which two are thermal resist and one resist augmented. Works well when using SCB on time

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