I finally ranked up to Rear Admiral and I'll be picking up a Corvette when I get back to the bubble (I'm getting Guardian items to unlock the FSD and Shield Reinforcement).

I'd like to figure out a fitting so I can put it all together when I return. Here's the fitting I've been playing around with
https://s.orbis.zone/2ozz

Thanks in advance!!!

JC,
Looks like a good, solid combat build. I'd opt for an A rated sensor for the added range, but that's just my personal preference. You'll obviously need to engineer the PP and PD as you are way over %100 deployed.
Here's my build.
https://s.orbis.zone/2p28

Congrats on the promotion JC! That's awesome.

Bo would be one of the resident Vette experts. I've never flown it.

He's right about power of course. That's too much for the current PP. I find you can handle about 10% over limit through module priorities. A G2 Overcharged Power Plant would cover it.

I prefer D sensors myself. Lower weight and especially power which fits my builds. I can still lock up at 7.5 km on most ships. The real weakness of the D is against cool running ships. The A sensors resolve these better. At 7.5 km you can hardly see the target ship. I find A sensors overkill, and give me more targets to wade through. Not saying D is better, just what I prefer all things considered.

My build is somewhat less than optimal, I feel. My love of beams tends to let me down when it comes to chewing thru hulls, especially on the beefier ships. The only kinetic weapon I’ve mounted is a C3 multi. It’s in the almost useless bottom hard point. Used to run seekers there which alleviated the poor location somewhat. Lasers and multis are the standard and generally most efficient for most ships, I just find that boring. YMMV.

I need to branch out in to more exotic weapons myself. I'm all beams and MCs these days.

For the power plant I'd say go G2 overcharged with maybe Thermal Spread (or whatever experimental) This would increase output from 36 MW to 42.8. You'd be about 4% over limit deployed, but that's easily handled with priorities.


For power distributors all of my ships use Charge Enhanced with Cluster Capacitors.

I'm going to rethink the weapons with some added MC's probably. I usually lean toward beams, but I found this fit online and threw it on to see what the feedback would be like. I've made a few adjustments to get a little more armor punching
in it.

Still gonna have to go and unlock Marcus Qwent for the PP and PD engineering though.

https://s.orbis.zone/2p4_

Get like 6 million of exploration data and fly to a Sirius Corp controlled station. Turn in the data there, that will get you allied and get the system permit you need.

Also consider a long range Kill warrant scanner to go with that long range sensor

Looks like I’m going to do some ‘splorin’.....

It's much faster than running missions for the faction. You'll also need Modular Terminals, so look for these. They are often a mission reward.

The C4 hardpoints should be considered your main weapons, the others I considers secondaries. Don't think I've ever used bursts, so can't comment on those. As a rule, my priority is firepower, shields, then speed when I do a combat build. As for engineering priorities; FSD, PP, PD, thrusters, shields, then the utilities like scanners and shield boosters.

I use a C4 MC on the FDL. It's G5 Overcharged and I recently changed the experimental from autoloader to corrosive. It's a beast. Slow fire rate, but it doesn't suffer from spin-up time like the smaller multicannons.

I also had burst lasers on it. One with scramble spectrum and one with phase sequence. Those were replaced by efficient thermal vent beams. Burst lasers are pretty good. Better DPS than pulses. Took too long to strip shields (I only had those two bursts for lasers) so I swapped them out for the beams.

JC, I'd swap out those B sensors for As or Ds. That is one heavy module (and completely ridiculous FDev!)

Bursts seem to be the middle ground between the efficiency of pulses and the damage of beams. I think I'll start with this and if I feel the need I'll change the weapons around a bit.

Bo it looks like your engineering priorities are about what I figured for myself as well, glad for that confirmation.

As far as the modular components for Marco Qwent, I've had those offered a number of times as rewards when running station rescue missions, so looks like I'll be doing a couple more of those!

I know this popped up in an earlier thread, credit to WhoCares on it, but I've taken that idea of an engineer spreadsheet and made a google docs version of it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xMES1dBukZ9sbJXdroYvff-bj9AWKqBAb47eA1CyeS8/edit?usp=sharing

Copy it in to your google drive if you would like to edit it, I hope it comes in handy!

Just coming back and going straight to a random exploration trip, I can say that it has never been easier to earn exploration credits. I actually don't know whether you can map ELWs/terraformables in the bubble, but I would expect that already a small distance from the bubble you should find systems with K-type main star that have not yet been discovered, or any A/F/G/K systems where terraformables have not yet been mapped - that should very quickly get you >6 million.

Yeah, it would take just three first-map, first discovery terraformable HMCs to hit 6 million. You can map any planet, bubble or not. The only question is if you get first-map credit. As WC is saying, you could knock this out in an hour or two if you find the right systems.

Indeed - don't know whether you have troubled yourself with unlocking Guardian technology, esp. the FSD booster and/or weapons to battle Thargoids. If not, you could combine you Quent unlock exploration with a little Guardian BP and materials collection run

Just got back from getting the mats for a couple of Guardian unlocks, and I've unlocked the shield module and FSD booster. Got Qwent unlocked quickly too using road to riches for the Sirius permit, then unlocked The Dweller and Lei Chung. So, I'm going to be busy farming mats for a few days I guess!

Good gawd man, that was fast! Well done. That sure beat running a bunch of data deliveries to increase standing didn't it?

Those are two very useful engineers. You're cookin' now

The rabbit hole just got deeper for you, JC!

I was close to getting the permit for Sirius thanks to some rescues at one of their damaged stations, and I lucked out getting all the modular terminals in one mission.
The Dweller was likewise easy to unlock, and once I unlocked him The Lei Chung invite appeared as I was already qualified for his invite. So it happened quickly but it was really more like dominoes knocking each other over.

And yes, it appears to quite a rabbit hole! I’m looking the material list for evertything I’d like to do and it’s going to take some time get!