Ship equipment configuration (little spoiler)

[chris79]

Hy guys,
i know that the best equipment configuration change as needed but for you, what are essential items?

FulcrumDrive X
cannon relay
repair sys
automatic CM
anti-missile
shield boost X5
heatsink cannon
shield recharge
ecc....

also, how to use the shields recharge, if i install, it consume my energy all the time....

THx

[Modificato il 1-10-2010 da chris79]

[chris79]

...ops, sorry, ...yes, equipment

[Blackthorne]

Essentials:
Mantis Drive (for quick travel)
Class 5 Shield Booster (required, so you might as well get the best)
Class 3 Repair System (essential for combat, since any weapon/engine damage needs to be patched up on the double)
Cannon Relay System (more weapon energy, also more dakka)

Nice to have (pick as many as will fit):
Cannon Heatsink (even more dakka!)
Stealth Generator OR Shield Recharger (seriously, just don't mount both. One to hide and one to weather any assault.)
Mining/Tractor Beam (required for a lot of missions)
Deploy Constructor (the swiss army knife of equipment slots)
Anti-Missile System (pops missiles and doesn't use limited resources to do so)

Specialized Equipment (mount as necessary):
Fuel Converter (when you want to syphon fuel from a nebula, sun or gas giant)
Build Constructor (when you need to build something)
Specialized Mining/Tractor Beam (when you need X amount of Y quickly)

"Other" Equipment (IMHO total waste of slots):
Auto CM Launcher (goes through CMs like candy, leaving you high and dry when you really need them)
Afterburner Drive (nice idea, but in combat I need to shoot AND burn simultaneously, and the gain in acceleration is too marginal for my taste)

-Blackthorne

[Ravenfeeder]

I disagree with you on the auto CM launcher. I find it the most helpful piece of equipment going. Mind, I'm equipped with 99 CMs!

[Blackthorne]

So am I (99 CMs ftw), but if I use this *expletive* piece of *expletive*, I run out of CM's in the middle of a multiple waypoint patrol. Which means that the next vonari happy fun ball of death gets too good a chance to shove a few of their missiles up my tailpipe.

If I launch them manually, they last far, far longer.

-Blackthorne

[Ravenfeeder]

You know that, even in a multi WP mission, you can still jump back to the station and replenish your CMs? Sure, you can manage your CMs more economically manually, but, at the same time, you tend to get hit by more missiles.

It works for me!

[chris79]

Thx Black, really important info

Another questions:

1) what is the different between anti-missile and Auto-CM? (..i don't know..., if is similar, i prefer anti-missile because it's infinity.......,no?)

2) can you still jump back to the station and replenish your CMs when you do a conctract with more waypoints??

[Ravenfeeder]

CMs deply automatically when a missle is near to a strike on you. The anti-missile system, as far as I can make out, has to lock on to a target to fire a laser beam at it. I love the auto CMs, and find the anti-missile system to be useless insofar as it takes up a slot that something better could be utilised in.

[SeeJay]

Hello Chris.

Yes, you can dock and reload/refuel during missions.
The difference is that a Auto-CM drops CM automatically while Anti-missile shoots them down.