Episparh

Synthya WylderI am SO never going on an expedition again!

Haha, I was keeping note of your location... I would be bored in the first week... But then this was the time I needed to go to Semotus Beacon and get back to the bubble. Your best option back is Sag A* and hope for FC departuring soon to bubble or Colonia (you can use suicidewinder express from Colonia)

Synthya Wylder

I'd also like to avoid having to transport 4-5 ships with a total value of >1.6 bil credits, not counting a few stored modules, all the way back to whatever base I call home, currently (it looks like) >28K lightyears. I forgot the rough transport calculated cost guesstimate... I don't think it would be cheap, regardless.

Synthya Wylder


Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the suicidewinder trick simply place me back at the last landing pad I used, be that either a station, post or carrier? Doing that, I'd also lose any carto & Codex rewards.

I'd also like to avoid having to transport 4-5 ships with a total value of >1.6 bil credits, not counting a few stored modules, all the way back to whatever base I call home, currently (it looks like) >28K lightyears. I forgot the rough transport calculated cost guesstimate... I don't think it would be cheap, regardless.

Hitching a ride back on a carrier wouldn't be a solution either, for the aforementioned reasons.

My other option would be finding another game to play until the Alpha Odyssey is available in (supposedly) 11 days & making do with that on my primary (this) character. Sappho will simply have to go into stasis.

Any way I look at it, it was a bad decision, a huge mistake in fact... but this has been my 1st expedition, so I suppose I can be forgiven for not knowing. Now, I do. If anyone asks me in the future, it's not something I recommend.

"Fool me 1nce, shame on you. Fool me 2wice, shame on me."

I won't go into details in public as to why I've come to this viewpoint, but happy to do it via private.

Sakashiro

Quillmonkey

SakashiroI keep my heat down by never assigning more than two pips to weapons. That way the distributor will drain before the heat begins to damage the ship.

Yep, think that’s part of yr problem. Good strategy against normal shields / small craft, but as Meowers says, against decent shields, you need to give it more punch. Heat shouldn’t be too much of a problem for short periods of time keeping bank mid charge. It will make a huge difference to yr time on target.

Every additional pip to WEP has to be taken away from SYS or ENG, making me more vulnerable and less maneuverable. I don't see how that's going to help me when multiple opponents are chasing and firing at me. Four pips to WEP in a wing fight is a desperation move, it's the Hail Mary approach to combat. I don't need a rebuy to see when a fight is lost.

Mr Sloppy
I planned to get to Colonia then have my new, unmodded type 10 flown out to meet me...... gave up on than when I saw the cost, 85million. so I bought a python instead. Last time I was destroyed (far too recently) the options were 1. my python in the nearest station, or 2. a sidewinder somewhere i didn't recognise.

AjCalrissian

Sakashiro

Quillmonkey


Yep, think that’s part of yr problem. Good strategy against normal shields / small craft, but as Meowers says, against decent shields, you need to give it more punch. Heat shouldn’t be too much of a problem for short periods of time keeping bank mid charge. It will make a huge difference to yr time on target.

Every additional pip to WEP has to be taken away from SYS or ENG, making me more vulnerable and less maneuverable. I don't see how that's going to help me when multiple opponents are chasing and firing at me. Four pips to WEP in a wing fight is a desperation move, it's the Hail Mary approach to combat. I don't need a rebuy to see when a fight is lost.

I think that depends on what ship you are in. If you are in a well engineered A rated Large ship , you probably have plenty of shields and hull tankiness not to worry much about being hit in a wing fight for quite a while. And maneuverability is not your USP anyway, but you may well have 4 pips to weapons as with all those hard points it allows you to rip ships apart very quickly without needing to engage them for long in a dog fight. And you don't really want to dog fight for long in a Large ship.

EpisparhOne note. Type-6 is awesome basic hauler and it is good even as explorer... And it comes at 0cr.

OldarBladeborn

EpisparhOne note. Type-6 is awesome basic hauler and it is good even as explorer... And it comes at 0cr.

aye, but it hardly compares to what the empire and feds are offering