Rheinland Rookie, you may want to find somebody who can read and keep them handy. Tell them to read you the contents of the sticky Complete reputation checks and balances ****MASSIVE SPOILERS**** at the top of this forum, or get them to explain the meaning of some answers you got in your other thread.

Ok thanks but my name is Rheinland Elite

Quite a mouthful.

What's the name of the Rheinland elite fighter, and how does it compare to the other fighters of its class? What was the biggest swarm of lvl 18/19 enemies that you have killed with it?

and what ship did u used for that??

i don't know mine, but i have some fun in a drake with doing missions from crete and malta by killing BH for sometimes 190k payed missions in my own

Wow! /me bows.

The lvl 18/19 Hammerheads are real toughies because of their fast-firing weapons with fast projectiles (flak effect). I prefer softer targets for the Drake, i.e. Titans, or the lvl 15/16 editions of other ships. But the Drake is a light fighter; elite are the heavy ones.

P.S.: my biggest lvl 18/19 swarm for the Drake was 5 Sabres near Malta. But what killed me was the endless pairs of Sabres that I encountered on my way out of the system ... Once I ran out of countermeasure flares the shield batteries followed quickly (evil Lancer missiles), and the b*stards did not drop any.

Edited by - Sherlog on 14-07-2003 17:28:48

Easiest way, without looking them up on the net:

Just turn on the patrol path option in the system map. (Almost) without fail, where a bunch of paths converge, thats a base. (Check neutral, friendly, and Hostile, just to cover them all.)


I've only found two instances where this failed.

-Clay

@Sherlog, do u use countermeasure dropper???

if u follow some1 in the drake and some other shoot a missile to u, i just stay follow the 1 he will do maneuvres to get u off his 6, i follow him and the missile warning just turns off

i must gonna use mines if i wanna do some good damage, i'm not that good in it (mostly i have mines for nothing, just like the countermeasures)

that's why my fighter mostly has no mines and countermeasures, also if i'm using a sabre or eagle, the most missiles r easily outturned (the cruise disruptors r the bestest homing missiles, best turnrate, but for them thus missiles r to fast for countermeasures).

i have moslty this weaps
- borroco (class 5)
- pyros 2 (class 5)
- pyros 3 (class 6)
- pyros 3 (class 6)
- hornet cruise disruptor (class unknown)

ps. do some good missions in the drake and fight better maneuvrable fighters first, maybe that will work... fight hawks in a drake (it's harder then shoot a hammerhead lev 19 fighter down)

Well, if half a dozen Sabres come gunning after you then there are a lot of Lancer missiles flying about and space is awash with the yellow-glowing Swatters ... You cannot outturn them all or shoot them all down, and a class 6 shield can take only so much of all this abuse. And if one of them hits you when the shields are down then BOOM! IOW - yes, I do use countermeasures when it gets hot.

I countermeasure when I crusise away from 7-8 Corsairs launching disruptors at me. But it still fails

Try dropping more than one and doing evasive manouvers, works for me a lot of the time

i mostly let my fighter accelerate and after that press the z-key to stall my engine

i had 1 time the screen was yellow of the sunslayer what i lauched , but 1 color from flak-guns not

Dropping 10 countermeasure flares doesn't ever work for me. Cruise disruptors seem to have EXTREMELY outrageous homing abilities!

Nobody TOLD Icharus and his father to do it-they died of their own stupidity

Look at the speed of them...you can enable your CM dropper to fire automatically, BTW


"Got anything for me?" - Trent, A.K.A. 'Mr. Eloquent'

Disruptors have an outrageously large blast radius (50 m for the Wasp, IIRC) in addition to being outrageously fast. That is why the chance of successfully flaring one is so much lower than for normal missiles.