vargata wrote:well, im hunting pirates all around so i will hardly have any ibl soon... just checked the deimos... it can shoot for an awful 18 sec with its 8 front turret before gets empty. it seems game has some op weapons and the rest is just useless or i will have to switch for ammo based weapons and bring a fleet of haulers with every bigger ship :/
You're underestimating the Deimos severely. The PSG is the capital ship version of the PBG. It really doesn't need to fire for that long to get the job done against any ship in the game, and with the kind of shielding it can mount, and the way PSG fire eats through shields, it can take a lot less than 18 seconds to decide the battle even against, say, a Xenon K. It's designed to get in real close, shred the shields of the enemy ship and then ram for massive hull damage. And its fighterbays make it useful against more minor threats that its big slow self might otherwise be ill suited for.
And if you're hunting Pirates you can still access IBL's -- if you're not going out of your way to cheese off the Yaki as well. Pass all the way through their sectors and you'll find one with 2 IBL forges. Set up an economy to supply them and they'll come through eventually.
The advantage of the Deimos is that it can keep firing its weapons at about half power even with the batteries dry, it has a very good recharge rate. And if you don't have access to the IBL, that limits your options effectively to the Deimos or the Shrike, of the purchaseable M7's as theyre the only ships with reliable frontline capital weapons that are not IBL's.
Shrike's not a bad choice at all. It's a bit slow, but it's well defended, and if you're concerned about being able to keep firing, that's your ship -- its ammo based Gauss Cannons can be manufactured by the player, and so can the ammo, and it'll fire forever as long as your hold holds up.
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