A new pilot reporting for duty!

Mercenary Center Q & A Section (Pilots Version)
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  • The biggest money-saving tip I have not seen anyone else mention (probably because they take it for granted) is DISABLE AUTOMATIC REPAIRS. Only repair a ship when you absolutely need to.

 

  • I don’t think you can go wrong with Empire Gunships.

 

  • Flew the Fed R12 Tackler recently, got matched with T5, average life expectancy in a fight was 2 seconds.
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  • The biggest money-saving tip I have not seen anyone else mention (probably because they take it for granted) is DISABLE AUTOMATIC REPAIRS. Only repair a ship when you absolutely need to.

 

Why is this a money saving measure?  Do the repair cost does not accumulate after each battle or is it a fixed cost to repair a ship 100%?

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It’s about that final bill that pushes you over the limit.  The repair cost is capped, so if you have 1 durability left and then die five times in a battle it will only cost you the cap.

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I’ve been playing more, and I’ve gotten some loot! :smiley:  I’ve gotten some purple stuff and something called artifacts.

 

  1.  What are artifacts?  What can they do?  Are they super valuable?  Is there a way I could see these artifacts in my inventory?

 

  1.  I can’t use these purple items yet (they are MK 4, I’m only MK 2), what happens to them if I salvage them?

 

  1.  I’ve tried to upgrade my railgun to MK 3, it said I have to use 9000ish loyalty raid points? O_o  What the heck is this?  Why is there so much currency in this game!?!

 

  1.  I’ve been getting these weird ‘teleportation jumps’ where I don’t exactly have control over my craft and it responds after with a series of disconnected wild movements of moving around.  Is this lag?
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I’ve been playing more, and I’ve gotten some loot! :smiley:  I’ve gotten some purple stuff and something called artifacts.

 

  1.  What are artifacts?  What can they do?  Are they super valuable?  Is there a way I could see these artifacts in my inventory?

 

  1.  I can’t use these purple items yet (they are MK 4, I’m only MK 2), what happens to them if I salvage them?

 

  1.  I’ve tried to upgrade my railgun to MK 3, it said I have to use 9000ish loyalty raid points? O_o  What the heck is this?  Why is there so much currency in this game!?!

 

  1.  I’ve been getting these weird ‘teleportation jumps’ where I don’t exactly have control over my craft and it responds after with a series of disconnected wild movements of moving around.  Is this lag?

 

  1. Artifacts are spent to upgrade MK3 modules to MK4, you can see them hovering your mouse in your credtis (top right corner on your hangar hud)

 

  1. If you salvage them you will get Artifacts

 

  1. Loyalty Vouchers are the money to upgrade Mk2 modules to MK3, you can win LVouchers doing contracts in your contracts tab in the hangar

 

  1. I’m not sure if you’re talking about packet log (then yes, it’s lag) or you just crossed a warp gate
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  1.  I’ve tried to upgrade my railgun to MK 3, it said I have to use 9000ish loyalty raid points? O_o  What the heck is this?  Why is there so much currency in this game!?!

Save your loyalty for now, Mk.II is good enough for T1 and T2.  Pick either T3 or T5 to use it in.  It’s sort of the sad state of tiers at the moment.  You’ll mainly get loyalty by completing contracts.  The devs added a highlight to it so it’ll be easier to know when you need to sign a contract.  Jump around subfactions as much as possible.