What are you doing (ingame) now?

[JohnLuke]

Went to the CNB, made around 150k in bounties before nearly getting popped by a wing of master sidewinders. Took out an elite diamondback explorer and got around 40k. Not sure I like hunting here, great combat xp but the money just isnt there, not for the amount of effort it takes. Fun though.

My experience is that a CNB isn't as good of a money maker as a Haz-RES by any means, but if you are focused on increasing your combat rank a CNB is the place to be.

The winged NPC's are certainly tough. I had a few wings of small fries almost completely take down my Vette's shields. One wing on Saturday had 3 elite Eagles, one deadly Eagle, and an elite Adder. Tough to kill as a group, but GREAT for the combat rank!

[zanderwild]

Yeah I probably would have been able to kill the master sidewinders but I was hurting from the fight with the diamondback still. Will probably go back in a bit for some more fun.

[Roger Wilco Jr]

I was sitting outside Irkutsk with a stopwatch performing shield recharge tests (if Orkekum was wondering WTF?).

It's either something I forgot or something that they've changed, but shields regenerate and recharge completely, taking the same times, whether you have 4 pips in SYS or 2 pips in SYS. I know they are stronger with 4 pips, but I thought they recharged faster too. They do charge slower with less than 2 pips.

[Xebeth]

I was sitting outside Irkutsk with a stopwatch performing shield recharge tests (if Orkekum was wondering WTF?).

It's either something forgot or I something that they've changed, but shields regenerate and recharge completely, taking the same times, whether you have 4 pips in SYS or 2 pips in SYS. I know they are stronger with 4 pips, but I thought they recharged faster too. They do charge slower with less than 2 pips.

They did speed up recharge times a couple of patches back. However, I think it's more to do with the capacitor charge more than the pips, as long as the Sys capacitor doesn't reach zero your shield charge at the maximum rate, if it reaches zero they recharge much slower.

Usually you don't notice this if your power distributor is good enough, but if you have a crap one (like I have in my Asp at the moment due to weight saving) you really notice it if you have no pips.

[JohnLuke]

I was sitting outside Irkutsk with a stopwatch performing shield recharge tests (if Orkekum was wondering WTF?).

It's either something forgot or I something that they've changed, but shields regenerate and recharge completely, taking the same times, whether you have 4 pips in SYS or 2 pips in SYS. I know they are stronger with 4 pips, but I thought they recharged faster too. They do charge slower with less than 2 pips.

Great information! Thanks for doing that test, Roger! I've been meaning to do that for the last few weeks, and keep forgetting.

Old age setting in, I suppose.

You know what they say.....

Your memory is the 2nd thing to go when you get old.

I can't remember what the first thing is.

[Roger Wilco Jr]

I was sitting outside Irkutsk with a stopwatch performing shield recharge tests (if Orkekum was wondering WTF?).

It's either something forgot or I something that they've changed, but shields regenerate and recharge completely, taking the same times, whether you have 4 pips in SYS or 2 pips in SYS. I know they are stronger with 4 pips, but I thought they recharged faster too. They do charge slower with less than 2 pips.

They did speed up recharge times a couple of patches back. However, I think it's more to do with the capacitor charge more than the pips, as long as the Sys capacitor doesn't reach zero your shield charge at the maximum rate, if it reaches zero they recharge much slower.

Usually you don't notice this if your power distributor is good enough, but if you have a crap one (like I have in my Asp at the moment due to weight saving) you really notice it if you have no pips.

Well, with no pips, they will only charge up what's in the SYS cap and then stop.

I'll post these results for anyone who is interested. I've been performing Vulture testing, trying D rated thrusters, fixed weapons, and etc. I had switched to a D rated shield with boosters so I could have A rated thrusters. Then I realized I could go back to A rated shields with a smaller shield booster and have nearly the same strength shield, but A rated (just a bit heavier). I was performing the test to see if A rated shields recharge faster. They don't, but they are a better module. Recharge time seems to be based solely on the strength of the shield.

D5 plus 2x AO boosters, = 441MJ, takes about 1:46 to reform and about 4:57 to fully recharge.
A5 plus 1x CO booster, = 434MJ (about 1.5% weaker), takes about 1:45 to reform and about 4:55 to fully recharge.
Results the same with 2 pips and 4 pips in the SYS cap (starting with a full cap).

[Xebeth]

Well, with no pips, they will only charge up what's in the SYS cap and then stop.

ah, yes, very good point.

[Orkekum]

Thst explains what you were doing RW Junior, losing shields and recharging, first i thought it was the regular bug that i see commanders in dock outside station, but your shields was acting strange.
Glad to know i wasnt going way too mad!

[OLd_Sarg]

I am giving the Golden ASP a stretch of the legs.
I am over 1000 LY outside the bubble in the WREDGUIA area of space an discovered a sweet Ice ring,
It will be cool when Ice can be mined

[Hrdina]

If I don't visit this thread for a couple of days, it takes a long time to catch up...

I just made about 20M total among the three CGs that ended on Thursday, and have headed back to Apathaam to run missions for the Order.

Congrats to JL & Anikaiful for reaching Elite.