Pilot Archive
Thread: Quick guide to Y-8 Turret mounts
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Narut0
Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:20 pm
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k guys if you need help with turret placement heres the locations for each
weapon 0 = Upper turret (any mining laser (y-8 grade pref))
Weapon 1 = lower turret (best turret for your tractorbeam as the tractorbeam effects all turrets)
Weapon 2 = Mining cannon (best to use LV9 Y-8 grade laser)
weapon 3 = middel turret 1 (any mining laser (y-8 grade pref))
weapon 4 = middel turret 2 (any mining laser (y-8 grade pref))
if you load all weapons with mining lasers Bar [weapon 1] and mount your tractorbeam there you should be able to do well with a full crew.
to use tractorbeam Pilot has to activate it via the tractor toggel switch (bind this in key config) once the tractorbeam is on the two middel turrets will be best used to pull in rocks.
to pull in rocks with the tractorbeam just aim at the rocks and they should effectivly move towards the ship, only problem is the other crew may shoot at the smaller chunks halfing the yeld pulled in.
y-8 is not the best way to mine effectivly. you could mine a lot faster with 5 small fighter ships useing tractorbeams then the y-8 ever could.
in part the fact the Y-8 is a let down as a mining platform kinda makes me wonder why i bother.
people say the Y-8 is better used as a gunner platform, i kinda agree it has more potentual loaded out with 5 LV 10 elite blasters then it dose loaded for mining.
weapon 0 = Upper turret (any mining laser (y-8 grade pref))
Weapon 1 = lower turret (best turret for your tractorbeam as the tractorbeam effects all turrets)
Weapon 2 = Mining cannon (best to use LV9 Y-8 grade laser)
weapon 3 = middel turret 1 (any mining laser (y-8 grade pref))
weapon 4 = middel turret 2 (any mining laser (y-8 grade pref))
if you load all weapons with mining lasers Bar [weapon 1] and mount your tractorbeam there you should be able to do well with a full crew.
to use tractorbeam Pilot has to activate it via the tractor toggel switch (bind this in key config) once the tractorbeam is on the two middel turrets will be best used to pull in rocks.
to pull in rocks with the tractorbeam just aim at the rocks and they should effectivly move towards the ship, only problem is the other crew may shoot at the smaller chunks halfing the yeld pulled in.
y-8 is not the best way to mine effectivly. you could mine a lot faster with 5 small fighter ships useing tractorbeams then the y-8 ever could.
in part the fact the Y-8 is a let down as a mining platform kinda makes me wonder why i bother.
people say the Y-8 is better used as a gunner platform, i kinda agree it has more potentual loaded out with 5 LV 10 elite blasters then it dose loaded for mining.
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