Just a quick PSA for anyone that is more interested in combat than trading slaves. I know we've mentioned this in other posts, but it deserves it's own space: GET YOURSELF A VULTURE (and the horizons expansion).

Despite how awesome the vulture is, it's only draw back is a relatively weak power plant given the massive hardpoints (2 large) for a relatively small ship. Last night, Crazy helped me unlock the engineer that can upgrade your power plant. Once upgraded, all power supply worries are gone and you can equip this agile little bastard anyway you see fit. We are each toting 2-Class 3 Plasma Accelerators and we were obliterating shit in a HAZ RES last night.

So, sell your Asp... sell your Type-6 "slaver" and get the vulture. Start doing some engineering (need horizons), and then ask for help when it comes time to collect the necessary cargo to unlock the Power Plant Engineer. Goes so much faster with 2 or 3 guys looking for the stuff. Took us a couple of hours last night. Well... and there's a few hours needed prior to get a permit to access his system...

As you were.

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i don't wanna hear any more of that "only Canadians are nice people" bullshit. Americans can be nice too.

Asp is A rated, but l don't want to sell it ATM. Might sell my Viper though. Hate the lack of vision in that ship. How is the view in the Vulture?

Was planning on waiting for Horizons to go on sale, but may pull the trigger on that a little sooner.

Flew the F16 a bit over the last couple of days. Only did one mission is ED last night, but it was a super long sight seeing trip. Was having trouble staying awake towards the end. I'm starting to save money nnow for the next ship. Looks like I'll be going for the Vulture so I can hang with you guys.

The view in the vulture is awesome. I hated the Viper as well.

FYI, the vulture is good without engineering too. just suffers from power shortage. meaning if you try to run 5A shields, 5A thrusters, and lazers, you might have issues.

you can run 2 large multicannons with bi-weaves on it perfectly fine. which was my setup for a long time.

harley and I are experimenting with plasma accelerators, which is why we need MOAR POOOWWWAAARRRR

but engineering makes it really fucking fun.

i like the industrial look of the viperIII



and its the best sounding ship in the game.


hated the viper IV tho. unreal how different those ships are.

so i finally get all the mats needed to upgrade my plasma accelerators, and since i have 6 i want to do, i load them all on my conda (4 large, 2 medium) and head out to engineer them.

on the way home, i got curious, so i dropped into the hazres, with 6 g5 efficient PA's, and holy shit. shields down on condas and pythons with one volley. couple more and dead. and no overheating. still had 2 multi's to deal with small shit that was buzzing around....lol. hard to get shots lined up, but damn.

I'm toying with trying 4 - 2C PA's and a 4A gimballed beam laser on my FDL once i upgrade the power plant. Might be too much for the distributor. Beam lasers take so much energy. I thought it would be good for constant damage/shield wreckage while i'm lining up the PA shots.

MOAR POWWARRR!!!

4 efficient pa's and 1 efficient beam should be alright.

1 huge rapid fire pulse might be fun too