How much are YOU worth?

[Adept]

Current answer, not nearly enough. I put the 2 million I had in cash into a well equipped type 6, and ended up having too little operating capital to fill it with battle weapons. I'm flying it in super dangerous waters too. I don't think my gimbaled beam laser and seeker missiles will help much if i get successfully interdicted by a player. I have all my operating capital riding on the ship. A-grade Cobra and Eagle are stored at Vela City, in the care of my allies.

[Raveen]

Tempted to consider a Vulture on my way to the Clipper

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[Vulture]
L: 2D/G Beam Laser
L: 2F/G Multi-cannon
U: 0C Kill Warrant Scanner
U: 0A Shield Booster
U: 0C Frame Shift Wake Scanner
U: 0F Electronic Countermeasure

BH: 1I Military Grade Composite
RB: 4A Power Plant
TM: 5A Thrusters
FH: 4C Frame Shift Drive
EC: 3E Life Support
PC: 5A Power Distributor
SS: 4A Sensors
FS: 3C Fuel Tank (Capacity: 8)

5: 5A Shield Generator
4: 4E Cargo Rack (Capacity: 16)
2: 2A Shield Cell Bank
1: 1A Fuel Scoop
1: 1A Frame Shift Drive Interdictor
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Shield: 470.35 MJ
Power : 15.86 MW retracted (102%)
19.40 MW deployed (124%)
15.60 MW available
Cargo : 16 T
Fuel : 8 T
Mass : 374.2 T empty
398.2 T full
Range : 10.10 LY unladen
9.70 LY laden
Price : 25,055,371 CR
Re-Buy: 1,252,769 CR @ 95% insurance


Not exactly cheap but effective.

[Andon]

4A reactor can't power all of that. Look at your deployed power - 19.4 vs the reactor's 15.6.

[Raveen]

Yeah, but want

[Andon]

Cut back on thrusters, shields, and sensors.

Also, that size fuel scoop is next to worthless on the Vulture. I tried.

[Adept]

Fuel scoops are not so mandatory anymore. I've sold mine. Fuel is cheap, just plan for the required station stops.

Type 6 + 1 million now. Gonna hopefully get a bonus of 3.5 million from the community goal.

[Raveen]

TBH I was just playing with the shipyard, I don't have the money for that Vulture just now. Part of me is so very tempted to build an explorer Adder and just head out there, I could probably do that if I cashed in the Cobra.

[Andon]

What did you use for that post? A link would be nice

[Raveen]

http://www.edshipyard.com/

[Wyld Karde]

Best weapons loadout for a Vulture is a pair of size 3 gimballed pulse lasers. With an A rated power distributor and pips into weapons you can keep those guns firing for a long time. Once target shields are stripped, aim for the power plant and your comparatively poor armour penetration isn't a factor. They're easy on your power supply, too. Using that loadout and tactic I've splashed an NPC Anaconda while it was still at 40% hull.
Don't pack size 2 weapons on a Vulture, it's a complete waste. Smaller weapons get a damage penalty vs larger ships. The Vulture's main advantage is that it can pack large ship killing weapons on a small and nimble platform, packing size 2 weapons completely wastes that. You may as well use a Viper.

[Andon]

This is my current vulture. I think. at least mostly accurate.

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[Vulture]
L: 3E/G Pulse Laser
L: 3E/G Pulse Laser
U: 0I Chaff Launcher
U: 0I Heat Sink Launcher
U: 0B Kill Warrant Scanner
U: 0A Shield Booster

BH: 1I Military Grade Composite
RB: 4A Power Plant
TM: 5E Thrusters
FH: 4B Frame Shift Drive
EC: 3D Life Support
PC: 5A Power Distributor
SS: 4C Sensors
FS: 3C Fuel Tank (Capacity: 8)

5: 5C Shield Generator
4: 4A Shield Cell Bank
2: 2D Hull Reinforcement Package
1: 1D Hull Reinforcement Package
1: 1D Hull Reinforcement Package
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Shield: 412.75 MJ
Power : 12.54 MW retracted (80%)
15.98 MW deployed (102%)
15.60 MW available
Cargo : 0 T
Fuel : 8 T
Mass : 399.4 T empty
407.4 T full
Range : 11.86 LY unladen
11.86 LY laden
Price : 14,678,245 CR
Re-Buy: 733,912 CR @ 95% insurance

[Wyld Karde]

You really need to uprate those thrusters, Andon. At least get D grade so you save some mass. Thrusters do make a lot of difference to a Vulture's handling, so trying to get C or even A grade would be better if you can manage it. Not sure you need the heat sink launcher either. An 'A' rated Power Distributor should be able to handle those pulse lasers just fine. Look into swapping that out for maybe some point defence.

[Andon]

Heat Sink launcher was for the beam lasers when I had those.

I haven't had any missiles fired at me for a while now. PD just isn't worth it when I can simply eat the damage on my shields. Which haven't gone down facing NPCs since I left Lugh.

I can't afford, power-wise, any improvement to the thrusters. Even cutting back on some things, I would have to turn off far too many things to get it usable. Plus, i can boost like a bandit with the A grade power distributor. And I just don't care about being hit - even C grade shields are plenty enough, especially with the booster

[Adept]

About 20M now. Need at least 10 more before I buy the Dropship.

[Raveen]

Whatever I think if the federation, the dropship is one ugly brute, if I wanted a ship with all the aesthetic appeal of a Vogon house brick I'd have bought a Lakon