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Trying to do the escort or fighting missions was getting me killed a lot. My skill is at 1110. So I thought I would buy a new ship. I got syck deed from a vendor and proceeded to put my best looted parts on it. I had not found an engine so I had one made. I had 3 different looted weapons, the best, an ion cannon went into the weapons slot. I get into space and I cannot kill anything. I might be lucky to get a defender down to 90% shields at best. So I land and put the 2nd best weapon in the ship, same results. They were all tier 2 weapons.

So I am back using my starter ship, but the missions are too tough for it, when you 4 or 5 opponents on you, you can only last so long.

Why in the heck are looted weapons worse than what the starter ship has???

On a second question how do you group in space? Seems like I need to group, but how do you even find someone else in space, especially when there are 3 different groups up there. I certainly can't do rebel or imperial missions.

Now you totally lost me, reverse engineered? what the heck does that mean.

There is a serious problem in space right now. I can't kill anything tier 1 ships that I was knocking out of the sky with regularity yesterday with the basic ship I can't kill now with my purchased ships, lucky to get their shields down to 90%. Tried all the looted weapons, then went to purchased tier 2 weapons, nothing, I have no ship kills in 4 hours of play today.

FTL is majorly broken as far as I am concerned.

Don't see anyway to edit, so an addendum, I am on Starsider.

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IrovMistwalker wrote:
Now you totally lost me, reverse engineered? what the heck does that mean.

There is a serious problem in space right now. I can't kill anything tier 1 ships that I was knocking out of the sky with regularity yesterday with the basic ship I can't kill now with my purchased ships, lucky to get their shields down to 90%. Tried all the looted weapons, then went to purchased tier 2 weapons, nothing, I have no ship kills in 4 hours of play today.

FTL is majorly broken as far as I am concerned.

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First of all, looted items are not always better than player crafted and i found the starter ship was better than the equipment I looted during the first set of missions. If you're having better luck with the starter ship, stick with it until you get 1/1/1/1 in pilot. Space is not broken as far as I can tell. I'm just about to break into level 2 of the pilot tree and i'm having no trouble taking out tier 2 craft and having good success against tier 3 as well (all with looted level 2 ship components). Just keep hitting the missions and don't try to get new stuff too fast. Learn to fly with what you have until you're easily beating tier 1 ships. You will eventually loot much better items. You can get to 1/1/1/1 in the starter ship. I did it in beta and live.

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IrovMistwalker wrote:
Now you totally lost me, reverse engineered? what the heck does that mean.

There is a serious problem in space right now. I can't kill anything tier 1 ships that I was knocking out of the sky with regularity yesterday with the basic ship I can't kill now with my purchased ships, lucky to get their shields down to 90%. Tried all the looted weapons, then went to purchased tier 2 weapons, nothing, I have no ship kills in 4 hours of play today.

FTL is majorly broken as far as I am concerned.

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Question: Did you have your looted parts Reverse Engieered yet? RE will improve their performance. You may want to try that. BTW, what server are you on?