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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:34 pm
by TheCatt
Here's what I did with the ships:
Kept my newbie p.o.s. ship until I had frigate lvl 3. Bought a Merlin.
I was doing all courier missions with the newbie ship, then switched to combat missions with the Merlin.
When buying add-ons, often the cheapest one is only marginally worse than the most expensive of the same tech level. So it's better to get a full set of cheap-o's than a few high end pieces. (Example: Basic Shield Extender was about 10k for 150hit points. Super-dooper sheild extender <still tech lvl 1> was 1million or something for 185hit points. While such differences no doubt can be meaningful later, they are rarely meaningful in the missions).
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:21 pm
by GORDON
The first ship I bought was a Krestal missile frigate for 200k, then that exploded and I bought a Merlin for about 300k. Currently flying that.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:57 pm
by Malcolm
Alright. I'll be setting up the account in a few minutes. Any last minute advice on creating a dude before I start? All I remember is it should probably be Caldari.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:58 pm
by Cakedaddy
Agree with Catt. Last night was the first time I ran into an issue where the more expensive would have been helpful. I was putting stuff on my ship and was 4 CPU short of putting the last toy on. If I spent alot of extra money on higher level equip, I could have fit it. Along with the extra 35 hit points the shield extender adds, the equip often uses a few extra points of resources. But like he said, it comes at a heavy, heavy price. Heavy missle launchers:
Standard - 32k
Highest Quality - 7 million. But, they shoot 2 seconds faster (12 seconds per round rather than 14 seconds). In this case though, they use even more resources. . .
But anyway, if you are running courier, got with a fast frigate. Combat. . . another frigate. Or, look at the destroyer. It's a really expensive frigate, basically. But damn can you load it up with guns. It will be the PK killer, one day, I think. Others hold the bad guy still while the destroyer goes in and, well, destroys them.
Troy, I think, is working towards a battleship next. I don't make the kind of money he does, so I will probably go for a nicely equiped destroyer, or frigate next. Fill the gap that his battleship leaves. Battleship with a couple destroyer/frigate escourts could be fun in .2-.3 space.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:04 pm
by Troy
Dunno if I want to go battleship... I would be needing to make some serious money for those. A Battlecruiser tho, the Ferox, is on my want list.
One the other hand, I could go down the Assault Frigate/Cruiser path, and get crazy good resistances...
Not sure yet... I could also do a total reverse and after getting a ferox for money making, I could train up some Interceptor skills, I basically don't know what I want to do.
Edited By Troy on 1137103539
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:53 pm
by TPRJones
I guess I'm the only person that bought a Lvl 2 frigate. Bought Condor (?), got it blown up an hour or so later, then moved on to a Merlin which I spent $600K on (including doodads).
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:47 pm
by GORDON
I dont even know what a lvl 2 frigate is.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:48 pm
by TheCatt
I dont even know what a lvl 2 frigate is.
A frigate that is not a Kestral or a Merlin (or, an Ibis of course).
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:52 pm
by GORDON
So a Merlin is a lvl 1?
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:01 pm
by TheCatt
lvl 3.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:13 pm
by Malcolm
Alright, I'm in. I need some hardware upgrades, though. First on the list is more RAM.
Anyhoo, Wrathion Ramshod.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:14 pm
by GORDON
Richard McBigHuge.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:58 pm
by TheCatt
Alright, I'm in. I need some hardware upgrades, though. First on the list is more RAM.
Anyhoo, Wrathion Ramshod.
Join the dtman channel.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:40 am
by TheCatt
So... I died yesterday cuz of "lag." I think what really happened is my norton antivirus did a scan, while the game was so mem-leaked that my total mem usage was over 1GB, therefore I was in paging file.
Scan disk access with paging disk access on a crappy laptop HD meant game froze.
Note to self: stop disk access while playing.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:20 am
by Malcolm
Yea. There were several occasions where I froze up for a full minue or so.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:18 pm
by Malcolm
Looking at the Hawk Assault class ship. Dizzam it looks like a decent buy for those folk looking for something past a Merlin. Or perhaps the Cormorant Destroyer class. 7 guns a-blazin'.
Edited By Malcolm on 1137432161
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:46 pm
by Troy
Assault ships are wicked in PVP, great resist and take very little damage due to there size and quickness....
The requirements for using one is a lil steep tho.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:08 pm
by Malcolm
Assault ships are wicked in PVP, great resist and take very little damage due to there size and quickness....
The requirements for using one is a lil steep tho.
5 in engineering, mechanical, & caldari frigate? Yea, I can see that. But the base resists on that sumbitch are friggin' awesome.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:11 pm
by Troy
5 engineering everyone should be shooting for asap.
The rest tho, would only really be usefull if you really wanted to be a frigate/interceptor/assault ship pilot.
All of which have a crucial role in PVP.
Edited By Troy on 1137435288
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:26 pm
by Malcolm
5 engineering everyone should be shooting for asap.
Soon as I get my goddamned learning outta the way.