Okay, so Mass drivers are really really, really weak.

Pumpkin10 · Post by **Pumpkin10** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 05:07

I've been hearing many people talk about how Mass drivers are great for killing corvettes and other weaker ships..

But I really don't see it, I spent 6 minutes chasing an Argon Mercury holdinf the fire button and watched as the green bar oh so slowly went down.

I found them extremely useful for M5's and Fighter drones, but even a Khaak M3 seems to be too strong to effectively use them in combat.

Can anyone tell me the best target for using the mass driver?

JaimeWolf · Post by **JaimeWolf** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 05:15

Mass drivers are for caressing hulls down below 87.5% so they are amenable to being captured.

tphater · Post by **tphater** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 08:27

TSs have big hull so dont use MDs against them.
You can efectevely use MDs to kill m5,m4,kakm3,m6.
And in split ships they work great

Feersum · Post by **Feersum** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 08:51

tphater wrote:TSs have big hull so dont use MDs against them.
You can efectevely use MDs to kill m5,m4,kakm3,m6.
And in split ships they work great

I thought you hate split ships? Especially the mamba.

tphater · Post by **tphater** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 08:55

I love the scorpion.
I dont hate the mamba,i think it's inefective that's all

asyikarea51 · Post by **asyikarea51** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 08:56

The minigun does 12 damage and 0 hull damage. But it does 1200rpm. But then again, a REAL-LIFE minigun does 6000RPM!!! And they call this game set in the future...? Ah well, better shut my mouth.

How's this: I have a mod somewhere in my old HDD, it bumps up the damage by a big notch, you can kill an Orinoco with a 1-second click of the trigger (like the GAU-8/A 30mm cannon on A-10A planes) but I think if you hide on the outside surface of a station you could kill the station really quickly. Oh well.

Pumpkin10 · Post by **Pumpkin10** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 10:12

Figured as much, I guess I'l junkthe Mamba and get somethign with Ion Disruptors.

RJV · Post by **RJV** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 10:18

Use as missile defence. Also good for precision damage. I took down a Nemesis with one, but it took a loooooong time, wouldn't bother using it for that again. Tis a permanent fixture in my Nova though.

Cheers,

Rob.

Pumpkin10 · Post by **Pumpkin10** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 10:21

The alpha IRE is just as good...

spalan · Post by **spalan** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 10:24

They are useful for missile defense and when you want to do multiple runs without bothering about shields. My first M6 was a dragon, which was too weak to kill a Xenon K. So I just put MDs on it and killed it in about 5 trips to the Xenon sector. Way slow, but it worked...

Pumpkin10 · Post by **Pumpkin10** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 10:28

I have a centuar..Unfortunately for me, I'm lacking in the Frames per second departmen.

Brianetta · Post by **Brianetta** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 11:39

Pumpkin10 wrote:The alpha IRE is just as good...

Eh?

You can't even kill an M3 with those peashooters, because the shield recharge rate exceeds the damage done. Mass drivers don't have any recharge rate to worry about.

Mass driver: Good against Orinoco, bad against Pirate Ship. Amazing against missiles, fighter drones, Khaak M5, etc, etc.

Pumpkin10 · Post by **Pumpkin10** » Tue, 24. Aug 04, 11:59

Alpha IRE's are great against missle defence I mean, absolutely useless for anything else.

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Okay, so Mass drivers are really really, really weak.

Okay, so Mass drivers are really really, really weak.