Ditching M8's?

delstars · Post by **delstars** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 00:31

I was just wondering how many people ever got this. Today I was doing a station defence mission and a Pirate M8 popped out of the gate. (Wich for me is rare in itself) I took out all of its escort and was just about to finish it off when the pilot ditched. As far as I knew up till this point I have only heard of fighters ditching their ships. (M 3,4,5's)
Just wanted to know if anybody else has ever had this. I certainly thought it was interesting.

gelo4ever · Post by **gelo4ever** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 00:35

had it happen, just as random as with other ships

M8s are useless when controled by AI tho

Catra · Post by **Catra** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 00:38

m8 are also bail ships.

StarTroll · Post by **StarTroll** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 01:09

TP TS M5 M4 M3 M8 are all bail ships. I never get lucky with them, either they bail and I kill them, they launch a missile then bail (Boom) or never bail. Only got one on about 50 ships destroyed.

Canefox · Post by **Canefox** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 01:20

If you manage to get an M8 to bail, congrats. They're good money makers. You can get about the same as selling an M3+

Triaxx2 · Post by **Triaxx2** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 02:28

Two M3's if it's still got missiles in it.

Canefox · Post by **Canefox** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 02:39

Oh, I usually strip everything off my captured ships and keep it in storage and sell the hull.

AgamemnonArgon · Post by **AgamemnonArgon** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 21:25

Never have been lucky enough, but I would keep the M8.
One can destroy enemy Capital ships like the M1 or M2 with 10 - 12 Tomahawk missiles.

Elucca · Post by **Elucca** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 21:57

I went to cause trouble in some Paranid sector the other day and left with three M8s along with a bunch of fighters. Made some 10 million and acquired 80 or so Tomahawks for my own bomber.

Triaxx2 · Post by **Triaxx2** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 23:06

I don't know, I test fired a set of 3 barrages against the M2 in OmLy and it took it down to 2% shields, so I think 10-12 is a little optimistic.

gelo4ever · Post by **gelo4ever** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 23:12

do ships ever have anything fitted on them when they bail/get captured

every time i get one, they are empty...

delstars · Post by **delstars** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 23:35

Triaxx2 wrote:I don't know, I test fired a set of 3 barrages against the M2 in OmLy and it took it down to 2% shields, so I think 10-12 is a little optimistic.

Umm actualy your thinking of missle frigates. (M7M's) We're talking about M8's or bombers. M7M's can fire Flails, Hammmer's and boarding pods. M8's can only fire one kind of missle that do some serious damage. I haven't actualy used one yet so I can't tell you what kind of missles. But from what I've seen I know that some of them do 1 mill+ damage.

Chris0132 · Post by **Chris0132** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 23:45

M8s count as fighters for the purposes of bailing I'm pretty sure, even though I think they require external docking.

delstars wrote:
Triaxx2 wrote:I don't know, I test fired a set of 3 barrages against the M2 in OmLy and it took it down to 2% shields, so I think 10-12 is a little optimistic.
Umm actualy your thinking of missle frigates. (M7M's) We're talking about M8's or bombers. M7M's can fire Flails, Hammmer's and boarding pods. M8's can only fire one kind of missle that do some serious damage. I haven't actualy used one yet so I can't tell you what kind of missles. But from what I've seen I know that some of them do 1 mill+ damage.

All M8s fire tomahawk missiles and nothing else.

Tomahawks are basically hammers, however they do considerably more damage per warhead, I think about 750k.

AgamemnonArgon · Post by **AgamemnonArgon** » Wed, 20. Oct 10, 23:50

Tomahawks. Indeed. Do not leave home without them....

Chris0132 · Post by **Chris0132** » Thu, 21. Oct 10, 00:12

Very easy to produce and fire as well, considering the comparatively cheap cost of both the complex, launch craft, and resources required to produce them. They also produce a lot faster than hammers, so if you want to blow stuff up quick and cheap, an M8 and a tomahawk forge are probably your best bet.

Vanguard3000 · Post by **Vanguard3000** » Thu, 21. Oct 10, 01:29

I don't think I've ever seen a pirate m8... what do they typically use?

Post by **Nanook** » Thu, 21. Oct 10, 01:37

Pirate M8's only occur in missions, AFAIK, and they can be any of the commonwealth M8's.

Elucca · Post by **Elucca** » Thu, 21. Oct 10, 01:44

gelo4ever wrote:do ships ever have anything fitted on them when they bail/get captured

every time i get one, they are empty...

Most of the time they're empty but sometimes they retain some of their equipment.

delstars · Post by **delstars** » Thu, 21. Oct 10, 01:51

Like for instance with this one I got 4 25gj shields. Being that I was playing on a new file with limited reasources and no will to go looking for them, I was very pleased to max out the shielding of my Scimitar's shields.

StarTroll · Post by **StarTroll** » Thu, 21. Oct 10, 02:01

delstars wrote:Like for instance with this one I got 4 25gj shields. Being that I was playing on a new file with limited reasources and no will to go looking for them, I was very pleased to max out the shielding of my Scimitar's shields.

I think you meant 25 MJ

They apparently are only CW and like their fighter friends give the same kind of equipement. Also you often end up with a crate of 1 to 15 Tomahawks as loot, being a nice money boost when you start.

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Ditching M8's?

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