Brother Dervin's Guide to Destroying Aliens and Narvidians

[kubla]

Finally found one, what a fuel hog LOL, about twice the usage of the Javat flagship

[poryg]

I wonder, you said that you raise intimidate skill to cut fuel costs. But I wonder, how helpful would it be if I put these xp points into tactics instead? After all, while it is true that huge ships suck water fuel like crazy, you can always help yourself with luxury rations.

[redartrats]

For WF guzzling ships, I've generally solved the problem with upgrades and increasing pilot skill to 2x captain's level. Get the WF tank and the other WF upgrade that reduces fuel consumption. Well, increasing intimidate helps too, but increasing pilot also gives you other perks like better combat, so generally I'd focus on pilot. My current Crazy captain has a ship that started out consuming something like 2.75/1.5 WF per red/green sector, but now with 140+ pilot and the WF upgrades I'm down to 1.40/0.00. Still not that great for red sectors, but a lot better than before. Plus it has 112 cargo meaning I can carry tons of weapons (I bought the weapons cabinet upgrade too) for boarding Alien ships.

P.S. My current ship is the Dragon Cruiser.  My previous alien-hunting captain (on Hard) had the Carniflex cruiser. Also a total WF guzzler, but high pilot/intimidate skill helped keep it in control.

[poryg]

Jul 1, 2016 14:21:16 GMT -5 redartrats said:

For WF guzzling ships, I've generally solved the problem with upgrades and increasing pilot skill to 2x captain's level. Get the WF tank and the other WF upgrade that reduces fuel consumption. Well, increasing intimidate helps too, but increasing pilot also gives you other perks like better combat, so generally I'd focus on pilot. My current Crazy captain has a ship that started out consuming something like 2.75/1.5 WF per red/green sector, but now with 140+ pilot and the WF upgrades I'm down to 1.40/0.00. Still not that great for red sectors, but a lot better than before. Plus it has 112 cargo meaning I can carry tons of weapons (I bought the weapons cabinet upgrade too) for boarding Alien ships.

P.S. My current ship is the Dragon Cruiser.  My previous alien-hunting captain (on Hard) had the Carniflex cruiser. Also a total WF guzzler, but high pilot/intimidate skill helped keep it in control.

On impossible not even huge pilot will help you have optimal fuel consumption, so I am not bothering with it too much. I go for rumors that are close to refueling places, and I have sacrificed pilot for warrior, which allows me to carry less weapons while maintaining efficiency.

[poryg]

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