Schmobius wrote:Darr Valen wrote:
I made myself grind to Admiral in Fed rank, since I had no interest in doing so again. I went Cutter before the Corvette to trade as well. I've had some fun in combat with a bounty cutter, but it's a whale to try and turn. Easiest to just fly backwards and fire off at the enemy.
Imperial rank grinding was so much slower than 17 Drac pre-1.5 Once I hit Duke, I was gone from Tamar.
The extra tonnage of cargo in the Cutter pays off fast. I make around 2.6 million with 784t of cargo with a quick 3 hop stop (each way) route.
Honestly, I always fly backwards in my python and anaconda anyway, so I'm used to that style of combat. Since the cutter is fast, if not very maneuverable, it might suit my combat style reasonably well, though I imagine I'd only be fending off pirates in it, not taking it to res or CZ.
My tendons are aching just thinking about the grind from lord to duke though.
I have roughly 1,050 charity missions (or more for another type) left to hit King. I'm not looking forward to that, especially since rank nerfing will probably get worse.
I literally didn't even fight in combat outside the training missions until 2-3 weeks ago. I was purely a trader/explorer. After getting interdicted 6 times, in under 100Ls, by the same NPC, thanks to the broken interdiction system at the time, I broke, and spent a ton outfitting my Cutter, turning it into a Bounty Trader. It's funny how fast my interdiction rate dropped once I had a full load of beam, burst, cannons, and missles equipped to my ship. So for me, figuring out to fly backwards was a bit of a great discovery. I'm not a combat player, but I am learning. Up to Novice now.
I can't wait to get more into combat, with a combat outfitted ship, and not something that is trade primary. The python looked like the most fun Medium class ship, besides the FDL.
Anywho, can't play the game right now, since "Issues Detected" actually is affecting me. Oh well, 30% left 'til Elite.
