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All around, what is the best missile for a fighter? large ship? Does anyone know a good vendor location for these?

ILEB MANTA

Rebel Ace Pilot

image rec 2/proton 3 for light quick damage proton 4's for one hit kills

i want the missle that the USAF had during the cold war, basicly it was a nuclear warhead for the sole purpose of air to air mass destruction. ment to wipe out the huge waves of soviet bombers and migs.

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FilanVader wrote:
i want the missle that the USAF had during the cold war, basicly it was a nuclear warhead for the sole purpose of air to air mass destruction. ment to wipe out the huge waves of soviet bombers and migs.

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I believe the term for that would be EP3...but at the scale you describe, it'd be like EP10

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FilanVader wrote:
i want the missle that the USAF had during the cold war, basicly it was a nuclear warhead for the sole purpose of air to air mass destruction. ment to wipe out the huge waves of soviet bombers and migs.

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I think you might be referring to the MB-1 Genie.

It had a 1.5Kt warhead.

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/r-2.html

That would be a nice thing to have for those special times.

Message Edited by lurdanta on 10-26-2005 04:32 PM

yep thats the one, the Genie Missle.

hey now theres an idea, Elite Missles for POBs. let them carry Genies!

I bet the lag from the blast animation might crash every machine in the system, but it'd be cool to see it take out a Star Destroyer.

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Ileb wrote:

All around, what is the best missile for a fighter? large ship? Does anyone know a good vendor location for these?

ILEB MANTA

Rebel Ace Pilot

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For you fighter jocks out there, try out our new PVP Mark III and IV Proton Missile packs, available at our Rori location, 200m east of the Rebel Outpost in the Bria Galaxy.

These missiles are specially engineered for fast lock times, rivaling those of thepopular ImageRec,but witha warhead enhanced with Daxxboom technology delivering up to four times higher killing power than the ImageRec model.

"Fly softly but carry a big stick." Get your Boomstick from Daxx Industries before your enemy does!

All round best missile will be a proton,you will find them poor though against gunboats.Mk3 or MK4 will give you an ok punch on your ship.For pvp go with IR 2's,vettes Mk3 conc's and gunboats i load Mk2 space bombs.If you know what you are gonna be facing before you fly it's a big helpwhen choosing what missile to carry.

is it correct if i say that the image rec missiles have a faster lock and launch rate ?
if so, does that mean that those missiles are more suitable for pvp ?

and if you fire a proton (evenly splitted values on armor/shield damage), will both the shields and armor get damaged at the same time, when you fire one proton ?
or will the shields go down first, and then the armor ?

thx

Message Edited by Spir4 on 10-27-2005 08:22 AM

in my experiences nothing beats the mk4 protons, they dont do as much dmg as spacebombs, but where i can carry all of 4 or so SB's on my yt-1300, i can carry over 20 mk4 protons (and 2 protons generally do as much dmg as a single sb). In the case of the corvette, sure i may have to fire 2 protons at each target, but at least i dont have to reload my launchers halfway into the battle, and ill still have some leftover if i decide to use some against a fighter or something. But this advice iguess is only if you got enough space in your ship to carry a mk4 proton launcher

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Spir4 wrote:

is it correct if i say that the image rec missiles have a faster lock and launch rate ? Yes and yes
if so, does that mean that those missiles are more suitable for pvp ? If you can't hang with the twisting and turning long enough to get a lock with a proton then yes

and if you fire a proton (evenly splitted values on armor/shield damage), will both the shields and armor get damaged at the same time, when you fire one proton ? NO
or will the shields go down first, and then the armor ? YES. Works like it would if you were shooting it with a blaster. So any excess damage that isn't absorbed by shields will be absorbed by armor. And then any damage no absorbed by armor will be absorbed by chassis and sub components.

thx

Message Edited by Spir4 on 10-27-2005 08:22 AM

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Hope those statements in red help out.

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Ileb wrote:

All around, what is the best missile for a fighter? large ship? Does anyone know a good vendor location for these?

ILEB MANTA

Rebel Ace Pilot

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As with every other aspect of the pilot profession (and the game in general) it depends on how you prefer to fight. I'm more of a hevy fighter guy, so I prefer some heavy **edit**, that'll blow my adversaries into oblivion with a single or two hits. Other, more flimsy pilots, might prefer lighter but faster missiles...