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Depends I the the following are better looted/re'ed high lvl guns, shields,capacitors,droid interfaces and fighter class reactors; crafted engines, cap ship reactors(where mass doesn't matter), armor(i've seen very little looted/re'ed armor that can come close to crafted).

Me personally:

Reactor:re'ed

Booster:re'ed

Capacitor:re'ed

guns:1 crafted 1 re'ed

shields:re'ed

capacitor:re'ed

armor:crafted

engine:crafted

droid interface:re'ed

mostly RE thats goood, makes it easier to focus... ok i'll take a harder look at the resources needs for guns, engines andarmour.

Does anyone have different views... or do you agree ?

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Goraf wrote:

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EEMAN wrote:

reactor : mark3 16.5k reactor power

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Are you sure that is not a Mark4? That seems awefully high. What is the mass on it?

- Alirc

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Message Edited by EEMAN on 05-16-2005 04:14 PM

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EEMAN wrote:

i see a lot of people claim RE'd reactors are good but frankly I look at what else they think is good and they dont know the first thing about outfitting a ship.

If you conserve mass for your weapons you can do amazing things. Always calculate what reactor to use based on its stats running overload3. This will leave the display in the red but everything works once you overload. This saves considerable mass. RE'ing your engine down free's up a ton of mass. Using very high quality level 4 capacitors saves a ton of mass.

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Working with a Dunelizard, I tend to have enough space to fit a crafted reactor in that runs everything without RO3. I don't like seeing red *before* I even launch, and I've always been concerned about my components browning out the reactor if the DI takes a hit... but then if you're interface is shot, you're probably dead anyway

Anyone noticed if droid programs stop working if your interface gets shot out?

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EEMAN wrote:

Reactors: hands down crafted is significantly better than loot/RE. A mark1 crafted w/ overdriver has right at 12000 reactor power. This is enough for any Awing or single weapon ship w/ 1 ordinance slot and countermeasure. Reactor overload 3 puts your reactor power at 16000. A mark3 reactor w/ overdriver is arond 16,500 power and w/ overload 3 you're looking at 23,100 reactor power. with a fraction of the mass of some god heavy loot reactor. Why waste mass on this .. you need big guns.

I like to make two types of mark I's -- 10k+ gens with only 700 mass and the 12.5k gen with just under 1.3k mass. mark III's get close to 15k (mine are 14.9ish), mark IV's get close to 17k (mine are 16.8ish?). However, there are the random drops that make an RE better. For instance, I have a 14.9k gen with only 3k mass Reactor (don't remember level right now, but that's lower than the 8k mass of a Mark III)

Engines: RE'd if you use your reward engine's awarded at tier3 and 4. The one awarded in tier3 can be RE'd down to 8.9k mass and 68 Y/P/R with speed around 85.5. The level 8 reward can be RE'd to 23k mass 92.8 speed and 72 Y/P/R. Any other engine that doesnt have one of these rewards in the group doesnt come close. You are stuck with crafted engines at that point, which has similar flight stats but nearly double the mass of the level 6.

should be able to get higher YPR on those reward engines. try to at least break 70 on lvl6's (seen 72+) and try to hit 74+ on lvl 8's (have the stuff to hit 75+ on yaw, waiting for a 72 to drop for roll - takes time to find the loot though heh

Shields: Crafted with one exception. If you have the mass, the level 8 reward shield can have its mass reduced to 32k with a front/back rating of 2550 and a recharge of 15.6. Any other level 8 or lower looted part cant touch this or compete with crafted....

With time you can find MUCH lower mass lvl8 shields. I've gotten mine to 24k-ish mass, regen about the same.

Weapons: this is a matter of preference. Some argue that looted weapons with .650 vs armor and shields is superior to crafted .480's. Personally I find the mass very high and energy/shot insane. I much preferr crafted ones with speed limiters on a multi-gun ship. Advanced can be made at 11k mass and 18.0 energy/shot and still have max damage in the 2500's. I can fit 3 of these on a std xwing and still fit a reward engine, reward boosters, markiv shield, mark2 armor, mark3 reactor, missle launcher and sensor decoy launcher.

Speed limiters? I thought about it at one time, but your damage potential is so much lower than if you used quick shot. Sure, sure, you better have one hell of a capacitor to run your weapons (especially four quick-shot lvl9's on a B-wing heh, that's over 16 shots a second!) - I'm guessing your refire is around .39. I think you'd be better off with Max-Damage, as they're still fairly low energy, but kick out more damage, along with being a bit faster (also meaning more damage). If you're master rebel, load out a B-wing with 4 crafted lvl9's with quick-shot. Then shoot a tier V gunboat. Now *that's* fast killin'! I personally throw 3 crafted lvl7's (quick-shot of course) on my X-wing. With cap overcharge and WO3, you shouldn't have a problem with drain on the cap. Of course, this is all my preference, like you said

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Message Edited by SandLizard on 05-16-2005 09:38 PM

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conserve your mass

conserve your mass

conserve your mass

i see a lot of people claim RE'd reactors are good but frankly I look at what else they think is good and they dont know the first thing about outfitting a ship.

Reactors: hands down crafted is significantly better than loot/RE. A mark1 crafted w/ overdriver has right at 12000 reactor power. This is enough for any Awing or single weapon ship w/ 1 ordinance slot and countermeasure. Reactor overload 3 puts your reactor power at 16000. A mark3 reactor w/ overdriver is arond 16,500 power and w/ overload 3 you're looking at 23,100 reactor power. with a fraction of the mass of some god heavy loot reactor. Why waste mass on this .. you need big guns.

Engines: RE'd if you use your reward engine's awarded at tier3 and 4. The one awarded in tier3 can be RE'd down to 8.9k mass and 68 Y/P/R with speed around 85.5. The level 8 reward can be RE'd to 23k mass 92.8 speed and 72 Y/P/R. Any other engine that doesnt have one of these rewards in the group doesnt come close. You are stuck with crafted engines at that point, which has similar flight stats but nearly double the mass of the level 6.

Capacitors: RE, despite recent attempts to boost crafted capacitors they only half fixed it then walked away without saying another word. RE'd capacitors have exceptional stats with very high recharges. You can get level 4 capacitors with rechages of 42 and over 1k capacity. With capacitor overload 3 they dont even dry up on a xwing with 3 big guns.

Shields: Crafted with one exception. If you have the mass, the level 8 reward shield can have its mass reduced to 32k with a front/back rating of 2550 and a recharge of 15.6. Any other level 8 or lower looted part cant touch this or compete with crafted. I had one level 10 that was 2000 front/back and a recharge of 18.0 but havent found 9 more level 10's to see what they can do. This mass is so high its more or less limited to POB's and those new shields could be better once working. If this is too much mass, you can get a recharge of 11.8 and front/back 1980 mark IV shields crafted. The new POB shields even with broken asteroid schematic issues, is 3450 front/back and a recharge of 15.6.

Message Edited by EEMAN on 05-16-2005 03:20 PM

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EEMAN wrote:

reactor : mark3 16.5k reactor power

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