Pilot Archive

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Pairno wrote:

Sorry, i mean a newb WITH a problem. How do i edit?

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ive heard you need 100 posts to be allowed to edit

Thanks, Any one want to give me suggestions? I'm leaning toward the interceptor because i could at least destroy an enemy before his friends killed me, where as the bomber keeps me alive for 30 more seconds but i literaly can't hit anything but dark matter.

Use Engine overload 3 to boost your YPR and speed. That should help with manouvering quite a bit. It will never be an Interceptor though.

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Pairno wrote:

>This thing turns about as fast as a paralyzed Hutt in a cattle chute.

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*choke*

This replaces "My ship turns like a dying huf dun" as my new all-time favorite handling analogy in a long and glorious list. For some reason, brick-like turning ability inspires awesome writing.

As far as advice goes, a lot of this decision is based on your preference as a pilot. If you like the Interceptor's handling that much, though, I'd give it a shot and try to make it work.

The key to this ship is to know its strengths and its limits. It's extremely fast, but it's also got light firepower and probably not much in the way of armor. The way to maximize the former while minimizing the latter is to not try to tank heavy targets. This ship will be excellent for dogfighting, but when you're going up against Novas and gunboats and the like, you're going to want to be patient and pull strafing runs on them: line up your target, approach at high speed in a straight line, then once you've gone past it hit the boosters and, ideally, start turning your ship in a slight corkscrew pattern until you're out of range. Hang around out of range until you've shunted or recharged your shields, then repeat the process until the target is eliminated.

This will take some time, particularly on gunboats, but the time you spend giving a gunboat the death of a thousand cuts is probably a lot less than you'd spend repeating the mission a few times.

On the mass front, you can fit everything you need into this ship. Just make sure you've got a level 7 gun, a level 7 shield with the mass experimented down, and either a level 6 or 7 engine. Don't worry about a missile launcher or anything besides the essentials: a level 1 reactor, level 2 capacitor, and level 1 droid interface. If you've got any mass left, add a booster, then a couple plates of armor, all at level 1.

A loadout like that may seem crazy at first, but once you've gotten used to the particulars of the Interceptor, it should be more than enough to let you hold your own on these next missions.

Definitely more agile in my opinion. Combat is never done at incredibly high speeds. In that paralyzed hutt, you are going to want to be able to whip it around faster. You are never going to catch up to any of the fast ships anyways.

Also take your throttle on the Bomber back to about half. YOu'll notice you can turn much faster compared to full throttle.