Combat tips

[colmaniac]

Hi, any one got any good tips on combat?

I have been flying past the enemy ships at about 1,500mps and killing them on the fly past, but engaging more than 3 is hard.

I am on the main campaign mission to scan an enemy ship, but 4 ships are guarding it, I can kill most of them but after a while more jump in. I did upgrade my ship pritty quick mining.

I am flying Mammoth, with level 7 engines, level 10 shields, cargobay 5, wing system 10, 3 crew.
onboard equipment repair system C3, Cannon relay sys, cargo scanner C5,Ful Drive C5, shield boost C5 and weapons phantom class 14 cannon and neodymim class 4 laser.

but still I get killed pritty quick if I hang around too long, I have tried taking out the patrol ships then going for the scan but as I said more ships jump in. I have had help from an allied destroyer and a couple of ships but I cant get the scan done, I got down to about 30seconds.

thanks for any help

[-splosives-]

For the spy mission, try a stealth field. It'll do wonders. As for fighting lots of enemies, I suspect you are having trouble with hordes of missiles being fired at you.
A good thing to know is that AI missiles never go faster than 2000, so if you can keep circling the enemy at about that speed, you won't have any trouble with them.
Of course, circling at 2K speed and staying in range for long is impossible with the engines in evochron, so you probably want to reduce speed when there's no missiles being fired.
Also practice them inertial maneuvers (IDS is for the spoiled and rich who can afford the fuel but don't want to learn how to fly)

[Marvin]

Don't do spy contracts until you've mastered taking on the minimum number of enemy ships (4) ... such contracts can be found in Fair star systems. Do enough of those to the point where you can complete the contracts with one hand tied behind your back. In a Mammoth, it's possible (with a lot of practice).

[DaveK]

There's a section in the Hints&Tips Guide on combat - collected wisdom of many players over several years

Be careful though - the guide is over 300 pages on everything Evochron and does contain spoilers!