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Message Edited by Drunus on 01-26-2005 05:43 AM

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Drunus wrote:

Well, "too far along" may have been the wrong choice of words..."unable" to take duty missionsfrom my trainer till I can find someone to help with that dang gunship. I'm on the second to last mission flying for the smuggler alliance, have been since *cough* October *cough*. So would I also be able to see another squadron trainer for missions without being a master? Kinda doubting it, but I'll take a crack at it.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look for that spawn as well.

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ill give you some tips on killing gunships, read closely. first off, you can shoot it, when its guns are out of range, probably about 550 range for assualt gunboats, its probably the same for impy ones too, but i forget, the gunships have 530 range, your weapons, can hit em at 550, you may not see the 'lead' cursor, but gunships are so damn big its a fat bullseye, just target gun '0' while at 550 meters, matching speed, be sure to use the droid programs: reactor overload 4, weapon overload 3, and capacitor overload 3, shield shunt with a fast interface would help too

get a good shield generator, and advanced blasters, and just go behind the gunship, like that

and blast away, while targeting Gun '0'

after its destroyed, it will count down to gun 1, then two, then so on

took out many gunships this way and its a very decent tatitc to pratice while taking on gunships.

hopes that help bro

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Drunus wrote:

Greets. So very tired of killing Black Suns on the surface of Yavin with no smile from the loot gods, thought I'd ask if there's anywhere I can find a static spawn of T4 and T5 Black Suns in orbit. I know you can get these guys from duty missions, but I'm too far along for that (unless I reroll). Are these guys around or am I S.O.L.?

Wasted hours not finding my BH armor pieces, wouldn't mind wasting a few more trying my luck at that helmet... at least I wouldn't be burning up armor, food, and weapons.

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That isn't exactly true. As a Master Pilot (Smuggler Alliance Privateer) I can take tier 4 duty missions to kill blacksun tier 4-5 craft from the tier 4 RSF trainer in Theed palace. So you don't need to reroll, if you are a imp or reb pilot just go to the various squadrons tier 4 trainers and look for duty missions featuring blacksun. The tier 4 corsec trainer also has a escort mission featuring blacksun.

For static spawns..there is one in endor with about 3-4 tier 4 blacksun flying around. I think its near Red Sin,..but not too sure. I know its in endor for a fact though.

I finally got my helmet yesterday after about a month of killing doing the duty missions. I am selling it on bria trade..current bid is 10 million. These things are rare, so good luck in your hunt.

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Drunus wrote:

Greets. So very tired of killing Black Suns on the surface of Yavin with no smile from the loot gods, thought I'd ask if there's anywhere I can find a static spawn of T4 and T5 Black Suns in orbit. I know you can get these guys from duty missions, but I'm too far along for that (unless I reroll). Are these guys around or am I S.O.L.?

Wasted hours not finding my BH armor pieces, wouldn't mind wasting a few more trying my luck at that helmet... at least I wouldn't be burning up armor, food, and weapons.

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endor has static tier 4 black suns thats where i wen to get my blakc sun helmet.

got ym black sun helmet form the tier 4 RSF duty mission for black suns.. I got lucky, got my helmet on the first attempt, even tho I failed the mission because the last tier 5 got away... I was under the impression you had to pass the mission to get it, so I set my ship to hyper back to naboo to re-get the mission and try again.. upon landing, I checked my inventory to see waht loot parts I got hoping to upgrade my kimo some, and there sat the black sun ace helmet.. I nearly shat myself... I have been trying since for a repeat performance, but with this loto drop being so rare, I have yet to get a second one.

>I'm on the second to last mission flying for the smuggler alliance

iirc - in the second to last mission you do -not- have to destroy the gunboat. i have been gated for a while now on the last one though and the tactic described above won't work mostly because a) the gunboat turrets actually have about 600 range b) the gunboat chases you and cruises at a speed of about 700 so you won't be able to neatly target it from the back for more than 1 shot.

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Shehb wrote:
>I'm on the second to last mission flying for the smuggler alliance

iirc - in the second to last mission you do -not- have to destroy the gunboat. i have been gated for a while now on the last one though and the tactic described above won't work mostly because a) the gunboat turrets actually have about 600 range b) the gunboat chases you and cruises at a speed of about 700 so you won't be able to neatly target it from the back for more than 1 shot.

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lol, works for me, gunboats only shoot when your in 530-550 (when your behind them, at least)range, anyway what tier is the gunboat?, 4 i guess? well, if you got a good shield generator, theres no problem just targeting the gun zero and blasting away, with weapon overload 3, engine overload, weapon cap overload, and shield shunt 3, you wont have many problems, if your armor starts taking damage use IFF, recover shields then fire again, once the armor is down the thing will go down fast. if its a imperial one, there is a small 'blind spot' behind it. if you are directly behind it, i find imperial gunboats only can shoot one gun at ya, but, to be honest, if you arent using droid programs, the missions will get incredibily hard, so if you dont have em, start using them, you have no idea how useful they are

Message Edited by mrmark200000 on 01-27-2005 06:02 AM

>lol, works for me, gunboats only shoot when your in 530-550

try specifically the last SA mission : this is a T4 corsec gunboat, but it's faster (600 ish top speed), turns 180 under 2 seconds and chews through my 2400 shield in less than 5 seconds. with a wingmate, we dropped 5 space bombs mark 1 and that barely brought its shield to 60%.