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lame22334
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while doing some events today some folks were in there with these huge boats...but they were spinning and turning on a dime and moving like fighters?
How the heck do they do this? ive tried everything to no avail.
How the heck do they do this? ive tried everything to no avail.
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And that is how you make a square do donuts!!
Competitive reputation engines would really help. Also using an Emergency Conn Hologram as an active space duty officer (from Phoenix prize pack - rare).
Here's a big list of things that would help - https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Skill:_Impulse_Expertise
That's where the Competitive Reputation Engines protoneous mentioned comes into play, as the speed boost also comes with an Inertia boost too (not mentioned in the tooltips last I poked at it). Very handy when you need to stop on lower Inertia rating ships.
These are how I do it, and it works great.
EPTE+DoFF, Competitive Engines, Deuterium Surplus.. turns your Scimitar into an escort!
I have my turn rate cranked up to the point were it is sometimes crazy (I do best with escorts but I like to fly a variety of ships), doing something like the kind of maneuvers that used to be a staple of the Asteroids videogame. For instance I have a cannon-armed Vor'ral that is the main ship of one of my captains, and in To Remain Klingon it was funny closing in on the Targ at full impulse or evasive maneuvers speed and then orbiting it with the nose of my ship continually facing it for a revolution or two until the speed drained down a bit because turn so outclassed the inertia
What is less amusing about it is that I sometimes overshoot the target and end up essentially flying backwards shooting at a usually fresh shield and often slipping just out of range unless I hit evasive or something else to get extra thrust.
When equipped on a massive ship, you can basically go "Hold on, guys, I'll be back right after this commercial!"
My Sarcophagus Dreadnought Carrier is inclined to agree with you. You can improve the manueverability all you want, but it will NOT stop on a dime.
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Oh Q, yeah. I almost gave up on that ship before I found out about the Competitive engines and their boost of both speed and Inertia rating. With Prevailing Fortified engines that I could trigger decently easily off heals, I even was able to back off of some of the turnrate boosts I was running on top of being actually able to stop. Prior to those engines, I basically threw on every turnrate boost I could find, but I got really tired of the enemy 'running away' from me after I did a 180 flying past them. The few permanent Inertia rating boosts (8472 Counter-Command engines or [Inertia] engines, Polaric Modulator) weren't enough really. Evasive Maneuvers also gives a burst of Inertia rating, but the way to get the cooldown low quickly with the Emergency Conn Officer (Phoenix box) on Emergency Power to Engines (EPtE) is bit more finicky in timing with having to be careful with not hitting EPtE when Evasive isn't yet off cooldown, and if EPtE or the proc from it gets eaten by lag or packet loss, you're up a very fast moving creek without a paddle, whereas I can usually keep a heal spare if one gets eaten or I miss the timing somehow.