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Looking for advice on my ship configuration from a defense perspective.

I'm running a KSE and she runs really well against single fighter starships, but I get the crap kicked out of me when I go up against anything larger (gunboats and such).

I'm not saying I was to be able to sit there and take a beating forever, but when I'm positioning myself in the right blindspot or doing a quick strafe to get a few shots in, I feel like I should be able to take a few hits and still survive.

Right now I'm running 2100/2100 shields with a recharge of around 10 or so I think, and armor that floats around the 1000 or so. I'm almost thinking of downgrading my weapons from lvl 10s to something with a little less mass and putting everything in to defense that I can.

Any suggestions on this? I was hanging out in DS the other night and would get blow up within a few seconds each time I tried to engage. I'm shunting and moving all over the place. It feels like a configuration problem for some reason.

You can go to an REd L8 reward shield, but that's only 2550 shield energy. Basically, you're a big target and you're easy to hit. Try not to get so close to the gunboat. What are you trying to engage in DS?

Pretty much anything really. I'll see a few gunboats, or some deciminators, or whatever else. Heck even if a nice squad of T5 tie's come after me I lose my shields pretty darned quick.

Great advice, thanks.

Yeah, I'm running the standard programs on my flight computer (am Free Lance). Got EO3, WeapCapIII, Shunt4, and WO3. I need to hook up with my local Shipwright and get some stuff REed once I have it all together. (I'm at the point where I think my alt may need to become a shipwright).

One of the big problems I have is that my reward engine has serious decay so it only has 56 armor left. Once I loot two more Lvl 6 engines, I'll get that thing bumped up in armor and hit points. As it stands right now, one shot past my shields and armor and I'm dead in the water.

Just a side note, a recharge of 10 is pretty bad for a 2100 shield. Is it a T10 shield? You can get recharge up to 15-18 easily.

Yeah I'm sorta thinking I need to improve on the recharge. At work now, need to go look at the level. I think it's a player made level 9 actually, about 42 or 47K mass.

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bmeenan wrote:
Yeah I'm sorta thinking I need to improve on the recharge. At work now, need to go look at the level. I think it's a player made level 9 actually, about 42 or 47K mass.

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thats waY to heavy for that type of protection you could get so much more with the re'd L8 reward

thanks much.

Doubt I'll be able to get my hands on in Chilastra, so I'll probably take my alt up the rebel line just for the rewards (again! lol)

REing your engine's a good call, it'll add a bit of speed and a modest amount of PYR, both of which are a sort of secondary defense that'll help prevent you getting hit in the first place. Along those lines, how's your booster? A crafted level 1 with 30+ speed can be a great way to get in and out on a strafe run in minimal time.

Other than that, I'm with these guys about getting that level 8 reward shield. Even un-RE'd, it'll have the same mass with better HP than the one you're running now. RE'd, you can get it down to 30K or less without too much trouble, with a 15+ recharge rate to boot.