What am I doing wrong?

[Starshot]

Do pirates scale? Or did I run into really tough ones? I used ~1000 of everything. Shields, energy regen, recovery, thrusters, etc. and about 3k hull to cover it (1 layer.)

Should I use more hull or what? I don't get it. I only lasted 15 or so seconds and didnt take out even one. I had one anti matter gun 670ish dmg that fired really fast, and one missle battery at 450ish. It took me an hour to build.

 

[fstratzero]

It would be better to have 6 amcs that do over 100 damage, than one cannon doing 600.

The reason why is that one big amc will only destroy on block per shot. Even if it\'s very rapid, having several amcs firing will allow you to drop their sheilds, and tear through their blocks faster.

Also it seems that having the amcs off center can make focus fire targeting harder...

 

[badmojo]

I find it\'s not so much the ship but the tactics used when fighting pirates. I\'ve managed to kill pirates in my little shuttle with 1 150dmg cannon.

Try to engage them one at a time. Always reverse while firing. If your shields are about to go down, break engagement and wait for them to recover. Focus on one target, get his shields down and then push in for the kill. Only fire for the core, the rest will follow.

 

[Starshot]

Both posts are good advice, thanks. Attempt number 3 today (the first was with tutorial ship lol.)

I WILL WIPE OUT THE PIRATES



PS what is with speed? can I not go above 49? Or is this a command or what? It seems a bit slow for a space game. I\'ve heard you can set it higher, so I guess I\'m just remarking on how its an odd default.

 

[MichaelSeph]

Hull is a bit useless, you never have enough shields, and you need targeting skills as well as good cannons to kill something.

 

[Starshot]

Haha, I found the wreckage of my old ship. It was barely damaged. It seems I messed up the design badly, I put the core on the face with no protection (except shields.) So once my shields went down i was instantly killed pretty much. Anyway my mkIII is much, much tougher. I wiped them all out easily.

 

[Kitts]

You can change the max speed to 150 if you want, in your server config.

You can also make custom blocks, for example Hull which has 90% armor.

Keep in mind that the way you put your energy/shield blocks make their output different. With shield blocks you should keep them connected to each other. With energy blocks there is many ways to go about it - you can find many tips here on the forum, and elsewhere (rededit).

Remember to aim for the core of the pirate ship. Once that is overloaded (damaged), the fight will be over. The \"target\", the one you can lock with \"F\" button, shows where the core is placed.

Good luck hunting