Pilot Archive

First thing I do when I get to deep space is type /who. That will give away half of the players in the game. The other half are sneaky so you need to rebind the target player enemies key. I have mine set to u. Then I just randomly click the u key occaisionally while flying around. If you do this you'll find that you may start getting the jump on enemy players and instead of dying in one shot... You'll be prepared and most likely be catching these same players yourself. I have only died four times in PvP and all four times came in a big planned PvP encounter when I was busy killing another player and couldn't get a target lock on the second player due to the corpse of the first one I killed being stuck as nearest target.

Heheh, that is me, Richmond. Glad you like my shop.

It's tricky to fit everything into one of the light fighters, but by REing and eliminating things you think you need but really don't, or at least things that you need but can sacrifice in the name of things you need more, it can be done. Oh yeah, and overcharge programs will help this a lot, too--if you're using them, you can get away with a level 1 reactor and a level 2 capacitor with no loss in performace. Your armor sounds a little heavy, too: you might try dropping down to two pieces of level 1, or one level 1 and one level 3. You just need to trim out 7K to be able to fit a good missile launcher and a chaff launcher.

If you're interested, get ahold of me in-game sometime and we can see about custom-fitting your ship to make it a PVP machine. The stuff I sell on my vendor's best for most situations, but for these light fighters, I highly recommend having a shipwright go over it piece by piece and see if he can't come up with something better for the mass you've got to work with.