Demon ship questions...

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Starblazer

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Greetings All,

I am thinking of getting a Demon (Escort), and I was wondering if anyone had a little more info on it. The info screen just tells me that it has an "anit-fighter loadout". Does this mean it has or can get 2 missle launchers?

Also, dose anyone know how high it can go for Reactors?
Can I use a cargo upgrade on it?
I expect it to be faster and turn better than my Taursas (did I just misspell that damn word again?), but is the armor too much weaker?

Sorry for all the questions, but, I am trying to see if it would be a better ship than the one I currently have. I have never used one before, just the regular 4 ships.
It looks really neat, but can I still fit most everything on it that I can on my ship...ie...repair droid, radar, cargo upgrade...am I too limited with this one?

Sorry, I just like to have my ship outfitted with lots of neat gadgets!!

Thanks for the help!

Starblazer
 
The only difference between the escort and strike version of the Demon is that the escort version has missiles and the strike version has torpedos. Maximum reactor and shield is level 2 I think -- it's a light fighter.
 
Max reactor: 3
Max sheilds: 2

It is much better than your Tarsus. Cruise speed is 500, afterburner speed is 1200. It mounts 4 guns and manuevers a hell of a lot better.

There's not much that's worse than the Tarsus. :)
 
should we have made it max at 2/2 like the stiletto the AI's fly?

well the stiletto doesn't need the xtra juice cus it's only got 2 guns
 
Mine has shields 2 and reactor "2.5" if you will (hardcoded) -- also, it has four guns but 2 of them only support light guns, and the other 2 only light and medium. You CAN buy a reactor 3 for it if you want though.
 
I flew the Demon in 1.0Pre3. It was a killing machine, partly because of the extra reactor level. It did not fair well in close-in fights, partly because of the "missing" extra shield level.

Thus, I think the 3/2 is a good balance. 4 tachyons or plasmas on a level 2 reactor would be rough.
 
Greetings All,

Alright whats the deal??

First off, thanx for the responses they were quite helpful.
Second, I go to the ship dealer, the Demon I want is in white (buyable) For $60k I have $182k, I hit the "Buy" button but it won't let me buy it! Whats up with that!
How do I go about buying it and how do I go about selling my old one?

Thanxs,

Starblazer
 
Works for me (tm)
started a new game...
earned 1,000,000 credits
joined the Mercenary Guild
bought a demon
no problems.
perhaps you were using the enhancement patch or something---1.0 is not designed to work with any patches yet...
and will fail in unexpected ways if used with said patches
 
wait: have you tested it with 1.0? like what does it do about the launcher and scramble stuff? :)

I suspect he had the enhancement patch from before...then moved his savegame over to the new version without it....
 
Probably... Right now I guess that everything is in a bit of a state of flux, and will remain so until 1.0 is finalized and out-to-download.
 
feel free to hold your breath--the bottleneck right now is some HTML editing...

we've already put it on sf.net ;-) and on a bittorrent tracker...
 
About scramble stuff -- the problem is that if I tag fighters as missiles they don't get launched on easy difficulty levels. Working on it now... I have a workaround ready, just need to get off my ass and implement it. I'm a little pooped ^^,
 
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