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Thread: Just for fun, my TIE Interceptor
A single L5 gun, and a single IR2 missle.. aint enough. You need at least an L7 blaster in it. Im sure you can squeeze in an L8 engine, but your other systems may suffer for it.
Rough guesstimate, after a MK II reactor for EO4(3300 mass), L7 blaster(14K mass), and L8 engine(24K mass), (using average figures here) your looking at roughly 41300 /50,500 mass. Toss in a 6800 mass MK III shield, and your roughly at 48100 mass, one 1500 mass cap later were at 49600 mass. Havent even added armor, chaff, or boosters yet. All this is a rough guesstimate, but the mass is already chewed up with a quickness with about a 1200 to 900 mass tolerance for other parts.
Your best bet with a T/I is a prenerf L6, which were made obsolete by RE'd QID's that can out turn them.
Message Edited by Ducimus on 08-05-2005 06:12 PM
If I don't Duc...I'll be your personal slave on Valcyn.
-Leaph
LeaphChausew wrote:
with the weapon spread of a squint duc..I bet you I could do well with a lvl 5 gun in a squint.
Im sorry leaph, but im a little pessemistic about an L5 gun. Im thinking in terms of T/I vs ROTW ship with L8 shield. Of course if were talking PreROTW vs PreROTW (are we?) then it might be a different story... but still.. im skeptical. Even pre ROTW it often took 2 or 3 hits with an L7 gun to kill someone. Sometimes just 1 hit, but 2 was the average. As fast and small as ships are these days, you'd get shunted before you could get the follow up shot to connect.
And remember, if 1 bolt hits, or all 4 bolts hit, you still do the same damage.
well, when I threw a lvl 10 engine into my squint, I didn't have much room for anything.. just cap, reactor, and a wep.. what I did was get as low a mass reactor.. i think I had a 700mass one.. and a lvl 2 cap.. though I probably could have gone with a lvl 1 cap.. after that I only had enough mass to throw a lvl 4 wep on..
and while it was fun flying I couldn't do enough damage. I hit a JSF 5 times and barely got him down to 50%.. I was fast, but that's about all I could do was just tease and tantalize the other ship into thinking he could hit me.
So in that sense Duc is right. You need something higher power to cut through the shields.. But.. that won't stop me from trying with the lvl 4.. lol i'll be out there with it again, just because it danced, hopped, and sidelipped so well. texas two-step anyone?
Ducimus wrote:
LeaphChausew wrote:
with the weapon spread of a squint duc..I bet you I could do well with a lvl 5 gun in a squint.
Im sorry leaph, but im a little pessemistic about an L5 gun. Im thinking in terms of T/I vs ROTW ship with L8 shield. Of course if were talking PreROTW vs PreROTW (are we?) then it might be a different story... but still.. im skeptical. Even pre ROTW it often took 2 or 3 hits with an L7 gun to kill someone. Sometimes just 1 hit, but 2 was the average. As fast and small as ships are these days, you'd get shunted before you could get the follow up shot to connect.
And remember, if 1 bolt hits, or all 4 bolts hit, you still do the same damage.
yeh we're talking post rotw Duc...and yeh it'd be hard with a lvl 5 gun vs. a lvl 8 shield. I dout it will work...but I'm going to try it anyway because I like to experiment.
-Leaph
I'm flying an Interceptor right now, for my tier III missions. Had a great deal of trouble with my RE'd lvl 6 engine, boasting higer PYR, but same Speed as Attaca's. Harsh turning from what I was used to with the Tie/In. Dropped to an Re'd lvl 4 PYR of 64.6 / 65.6 / 64.3 and a speed of 62.9, and got the feel back. The RE'd 6 engine above produces a much different flying experience in my Interceptor. I could not hold onto slow moving ships and then react to changes rapidly enough (such as breaking off an attack to pick up another). How much of this is likely to be simply perception, and how much is actually requiring learning a new flying style?
The RE'd 4 is about 813 max speed, post EO3, and the RE'd 8 is about 1064. PYR in the 4 is 1.1 and 1.2 in the 8. I am able to tag Tier IV A's and Bs and such fine with the present config, though, got tagged heavy by one of these last Tier IV novas before server Shutdown. Would it be better to go to the lvl 8 engine, again, And,
What difference in flying style might be needed? currently I am heavy on evades (jinking and rolls), and like to come up quickly behind my targets, disable, and break rapidly for other, active targets. I don't do much jousting except in initial encounters.
LeaphChausew wrote:
Ducimus wrote:
LeaphChausew wrote:
with the weapon spread of a squint duc..I bet you I could do well with a lvl 5 gun in a squint.
Im sorry leaph, but im a little pessemistic about an L5 gun. Im thinking in terms of T/I vs ROTW ship with L8 shield. Of course if were talking PreROTW vs PreROTW (are we?) then it might be a different story... but still.. im skeptical. Even pre ROTW it often took 2 or 3 hits with an L7 gun to kill someone. Sometimes just 1 hit, but 2 was the average. As fast and small as ships are these days, you'd get shunted before you could get the follow up shot to connect.
And remember, if 1 bolt hits, or all 4 bolts hit, you still do the same damage.
yeh we're talking post rotw Duc...and yeh it'd be hard with a lvl 5 gun vs. a lvl 8 shield. I dout it will work...but I'm going to try it anyway because I like to experiment.-Leaph
Experimentation is always fun. Sometimes i forget that.