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ODS: is it actually hard to hit? I had no problem whacking the one guarding the Insurgent base at Lynnen/Sirius. My main problem is the autopilot can't keep me a constant distance to it, so I had to go back and forth with retro/AB. However, my main gun shots seem to pass THROUGH the ODS. Only the PTA seem to be doing any significant damage. But I did disable the ODS.

Star Stations: The current advice is do NOT attack the station itself unless you can cloak, it seems. Decloak in the station's blind spot, and fire away. If I do NOT have cloak, is there still a way? Or should I just sit outside its range and kill supply freighters instead? (i.e. blockade the station?)

[ 06-30-2003, 02:12 AM: Message edited by: Kasey Chang ]

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Originally posted by Kasey Chang:

ODS: is it actually hard to hit? I had no problem whacking the one guarding the Insurgent base at Lynnen/Sirius. My main problem is the autopilot can't keep me a constant distance to it, so I had to go back and forth with retro/AB. However, my main gun shots seem to pass THROUGH the ODS. Only the PTA seem to be doing any significant damage. But I did disable the ODS.

The distance between barrels of your main gun is greater than width of the ODS system. That's why it's very hard to hit.

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Star Stations: The current advice is do NOT attack the station itself unless you can cloak, it seems. Decloak in the station's blind spot, and fire away. If I do NOT have cloak, is there still a way? Or should I just sit outside its range and kill supply freighters instead? (i.e. blockade the station?)

I never did blocade to a station, so I don't know if it works. If you can't cloak, then the only possible thing is to find a blind spot in the station's defense system, where it can't fire at you. Looking for such place is usually painful , but you can watch other ships attacking the station. When finally someone survives emerging from hj, then the direction from where he started his jump might be safe to check.

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Originally posted by Kalshion:

OSD's don't even fire on you.. I've gone up close and personal to them and they never fire on me =)


You should know by now that - unlike silly humans - NPC entities don't fire blindly without a lock solution. You should learn that.

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I know that SC =)

but what im saying is that when I had Str Rank one time I sent a whole fleet up against a ODS and it never fired on missle.. so either it wasn't able to get a lock.. or we where confusing the hell out of it (then again when ever I attack a ODS I always stay cloaked using the TMCD which might be why it can't lock onto me =P)

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Originally posted by Kalshion:

OSD's don't even fire on you.. I've gone up close and personal to them and they never fire on me =)

False. The one I attacked definitely fired on me once. However, its orbital pattern is easy enough to "dodge".

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