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Congratulate me! Saturday night I made Master Pilot and in the same night, I got my first Frieghter, with a full crew of RL friends!!! (now if I could only get them all to log on at the same time ) This is the first profession in the game so far that I'm naturally good at.

For those interested my YT has...
Blue Flames Paint Job
Engine Style 2 (not the falcon style)
2 Ion Cannon Turrets

Still working on getting a really fast engine for it

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JarusSarn wrote:
Congratulate me! Saturday night I made Master Pilot and in the same night, I got my first Frieghter, with a full crew of RL friends!!! (now if I could only get them all to log on at the same time ) This is the first profession in the game so far that I'm naturally good at.

For those interested my YT has...
Blue Flames Paint Job
Engine Style 2 (not the falcon style)
2 Ion Cannon Turrets

Still working on getting a really fast engine for it

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2 Ion Cannons? Are you sure about that? Once their shields drop, your weapons are going to become useless.

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KabaI wrote:

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JarusSarn wrote:
Congratulate me! Saturday night I made Master Pilot and in the same night, I got my first Frieghter, with a full crew of RL friends!!! (now if I could only get them all to log on at the same time ) This is the first profession in the game so far that I'm naturally good at.

For those interested my YT has...
Blue Flames Paint Job
Engine Style 2 (not the falcon style)
2 Ion Cannon Turrets

Still working on getting a really fast engine for it

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2 Ion Cannons? Are you sure about that? Once their shields drop, your weapons are going to become useless.

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Oh, trust me... these aren't your papa's ion cannons seriously though, they're good weapons, a little slow firing, but pretty powerful, and don't ion cannons do subsystem damage mostly?

HeAlone, the tier 4 grind is easier, if you spend all your time in Kessel, blasting X-Wings B-Wings and Y-Wings Rebels in Kessel are push-overs That's how I did it anyway, tier 4 took a total of maybe 1-2 weeks for me.

And... Ahoy! ChaoticPlague
/secretsmugglerhandshake
Why is it that Spice names make the best ship names I'm gonna try and get my friends to start calling me "Thrusterhead" when I'm pulling crazy maneuvers in space like... "Whoa there Thrusterhead!!!"

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JarusSarn wrote:

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KabaI wrote:

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JarusSarn wrote:
Congratulate me! Saturday night I made Master Pilot and in the same night, I got my first Frieghter, with a full crew of RL friends!!! (now if I could only get them all to log on at the same time ) This is the first profession in the game so far that I'm naturally good at.

For those interested my YT has...
Blue Flames Paint Job
Engine Style 2 (not the falcon style)
2 Ion Cannon Turrets

Still working on getting a really fast engine for it

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2 Ion Cannons? Are you sure about that? Once their shields drop, your weapons are going to become useless.

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Oh, trust me... these aren't your papa's ion cannons seriously though, they're good weapons, a little slow firing, but pretty powerful, and don't ion cannons do subsystem damage mostly?

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Message Edited by Golrok on 12-13-2004 05:46 PM

That's correct. The only difference in weapon types is the shield and armor effectiveness--ion cannons generally have a higher effect vs. shields, disruptors are better against armor, and blasters are about even. Not that the names really mean anything; they're just a way to classify guns.

Blasters are probably better for the YT due to the fact they'll do okay damage against whatever you're firing at, but I can see a couple of ion cannons having their use if you're in a squad with a couple fighters flying support. The YT gunners wreck the shields of anything that comes close, then the fighters engage and finish off the armor/systems. Level 9 ions can push their shield effectiveness up to .910 without too much trouble, so they could be utterly murderous if used in this way. Would take some coordination with your fighter pilots, but if you pull that off I bet it'd work really well, and besides, the big multiplayer ships are more support/bombing craft than they are everything-killers.

From my experience in my rihyxrihk(sp?), the ion cannon rips through the shields, then the armor takes about twice as long to drop, and then subcomponents and chassis are cake. This comes from the Imp Gunboats as the other craft move too much to be sure you are hitting one side of the shield. I may be wrong, again, this is just from my experience.

BTW, congrats on mastering and getting that YT. The tier 4 grind is looking to be a long one for this smuggler.

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Vixytrix wrote:

I tryed a Ion Cannon, with a Disrupter on ,y ship... all i seem to do is drain my cap faster, how do you all get them 2 and 3 shot kills?

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The trick here is to use the Ioncannon first to lower the shields, then use the disruptor or some missles to eat through the armour. My dream is a Ripper Cannon, reverseengineered from a ion and a disruptor

Wow, this thread got hijacked fast... Too much discussing, not enough congratulating /sigh

For those interested, my Ion Cannons are Level 8s that do about 2100-3200 each, with about .6 effectivness on shields and armor, they're not the BEST guns, but in the right gunners hands, they can be quite devastating Also, I like how they look It's nice to be different in a galaxy of conformity, don't you agree, it would be lame if everyone used red blasters...