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by soulmata » Wed, 28. Jan 15, 20:48
For Keris:
Keris are not great for selling because, as others mentioned, there are no quick infinite sinks for them like Shields and most weapons. EMPCs will sell infinitely at places like Saturn Research Station, but the AI won't sell there by default - maybe try unloading the Keris there? Keris also require precious silicon, and if you're interested in money, there are other uses for turning silicon into cash that the AI Will buy like hotcackes - such as Satellites. Often even if I set my fabs to maximum price, the AI will still be buying satellites like I'm the last place in the universe to make them.
A better use for Keris are drone dump tactics. Keris has EMPC and is thus more powerful, particularly OOS, than the Fighter Drone MKII. This is amplified by the fact Keris build in quantity faster than MKII, so you can amass them quickly. Dump 50-100 in a sector OOS to wipe out anything particularly annoying. Kind of a lame tactic but it's a way to get rid of them quickly while also solving other "problems". I generally use this to deal with the occasional Xenon invasion when using MBRR, as I have Xenon at 20x multiplier and sometimes they get out of control. If there's an annoying I or K, 50 drones will deal with it.
They are also nice IS for dealing with M8s during patrol or defense missions. I mostly fly my Katana which is not the best ship to be taking on M8s, but a handful of drones will keep it occupied and prevent it from destroying a station.
For Lasertowers:
You can dump as many lasertowers in a single spot as you want (I've done over 80 in a single spot before) if you are OOS, and they will all remain at the exactly the same spot, without shooting each other, as long as you remain OOS. As soon as you go IS, because they are overlapping, the game will move them to a random spot. Sometimes it's only a few hundred meters away, sometimes they get teleported dozens of km away.
If you don't plan to go into that sector ever again and you want to use the towers as effective point defense, you can dump as many as you want on the same spot. Clusters of 25+ will last a long time, even against Cap ships.
If you plan on using that sector yourself, it's better to lay them in grids or lines near where you expect enemies to be. I've found that if you space them out 500 meters apart, the game will not move them out of place ever. I often will put around 8-16 towers in small lines just outside gates of sectors I'm trying to colonize, mostly to deal with the random pirate attacks, not enough to wipe out cap ship invasions but enough to swat all the M5-M3 away and an M6 now and then. A ring surrounding the gate, followed by some trailing lines that follow the same path ships exiting, and perhaps a few lasers behind the gate, will obliterate even the toughest ships quickly when you are IS - they will all start firing even before the ship has finished exiting, so for cases where multiple cap ships are coming through, they get picked off 1 by 1.
