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COMBAT - ASP Explorer
Hello guys !

I bought and upgraded an ASP Explorer for COMBAT. Is It worth it ? or should I simply sell it back ? I'm the rank right after novice.
What mission should I focus tho ? In term of reward ? Like 300k reward is a mission affordable to me ?

I'm noob.
Originally posted by s0laris:
In that price range, the Vulture is THE combat ship but requires quite some skill to pilot it. If you are hell-bent on combat and you can afford the rank and creds, you may want to go for a FAS.

You can try missions (though i heard they are bugged) but for actual income you may want to visit Resource Extraction sites. Go for the low ones to get used to your ship then you can go to the high RES areas. Depending on the random seed, an FDL or Conda kill can net you 3-500k. Just make sure you have a kill warrant scanner on your ship and scan each target, only engage the ones marked wanted and avoid hitting everything else, especially police forces. Also, in general, be cautious with Condas, Clippers or anthing that can badly outmaneuver or outgun you.

A good place to farm resource sites is Omicron Columbae, theres a coriolis station right next to several res sites and conflict zones within 2ls (avoid conflict zones until you know what you are doing and your ship is heavily engineered).
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Is the game just broke righht now ???
Hawk Jan 4, 2019 @ 5:07am 
It's totally worth it if you want to die, because I hunt ships like yours down. I can't tolerate people mistreating their vessels with pure disrespect like that.
DiKlein Jan 4, 2019 @ 5:09am 
Hey a asp explorer isn't a really good fighter. It is just to weak against fighter ships for the same amount of credits. But sure you can use her as a fighter. And for your missions its a little bit difficult with an aspx. I think you can't do higher missions without heavy engineering your ship. It's just I said to weak. And don't think about pvp without the needed fighting skills.
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s0laris Jan 4, 2019 @ 5:19am 
In that price range, the Vulture is THE combat ship but requires quite some skill to pilot it. If you are hell-bent on combat and you can afford the rank and creds, you may want to go for a FAS.

You can try missions (though i heard they are bugged) but for actual income you may want to visit Resource Extraction sites. Go for the low ones to get used to your ship then you can go to the high RES areas. Depending on the random seed, an FDL or Conda kill can net you 3-500k. Just make sure you have a kill warrant scanner on your ship and scan each target, only engage the ones marked wanted and avoid hitting everything else, especially police forces. Also, in general, be cautious with Condas, Clippers or anthing that can badly outmaneuver or outgun you.

A good place to farm resource sites is Omicron Columbae, theres a coriolis station right next to several res sites and conflict zones within 2ls (avoid conflict zones until you know what you are doing and your ship is heavily engineered).
Spooky Jan 4, 2019 @ 5:38am 
The Asp Explorer is, well, a explorer vessel. Quite a good one too, im currently using it to travel the galaxy.

You can view all the ships and their general use here:
https://www.alpha-orbital.com/elite/ship-list/
Fix Jan 4, 2019 @ 5:43am 
You should look for the Asp Fighter... I think they sell them in system LHS 2894

For serious though, you should consider saving a little and earning Fed rank to one of Fed ships for like a mid-range fighty ship. The Vulture as suggested is a fine ship but requires more skill to fly than say, the Federal Gunship because the Vulture can't take as many punches, and deals smaller damage over time, where as a properly outfitted FGS will give you a good punch and allow you to take a few as well.
Chibbity Jan 4, 2019 @ 5:55am 
I'm flying an Asp Explorer ATM, it's a decent all rounder for it's cost.

It's not a combat specialized ship, but it can hold its own against similarly sized/priced ships.

I pretty much do mostly combat missions with some light trading/passenger stuff on the side, and I'm pretty happy with the Asp for the time being having upgraded from a Cobra recently.
Audaciter Jan 4, 2019 @ 6:01am 
stock vulture betther than heavly engineered aspx in combat.ı used both of them in combat.aspx good explorer pessenger missioner and trader but it cant handle 1v1 fight.
Originally posted by Hawk:
It's totally worth it if you want to die, because I hunt ships like yours down. I can't tolerate people mistreating their vessels with pure disrespect like that.
Cool story bro :D I just learn u know ? that's why I am actualy asking :)

thanks for answering, in your own way ^^

Thanks to everyone else who answered me.

I will sell it to buy a Vulture then. I was just feeling way too heavy with that anyway. Only the 6 slot weapons and huge reenforcement capability were apealing me. Getting 1600 points in Armour with it.. thought was good. I afford killing some pirates lords with it @600k bounty.. but felt heavy all the way.

Thanks again !
Chibbity Jan 4, 2019 @ 6:35am 
Sure there are better all out combat ships, but the ASP is capable in a fight while being able to do other things. If you want to be able to do more than just fight, but also not have to run away at the first sign of conflict, the ASP is a good middle ground in it's tier.

Description from Alpha Orbital:

The Asp Explorer has a high jump range relative to other ships in the game and thus is quite good for use as an exploration ship. It has six weapon hardpoints and has a good turning radius for its size which makes the Asp good for more than just exploration. The Asp can act as a heavy-duty bounty hunting vessel due to its superb weapon capacity and good manoeuvrability for its size.

Pirates can also use the Asp to great effect because of the ample cargo capacity, heavy armament, long jump range and large mass (allowing it to charge its own Frame Shift Drive with minimal mass disruption while also mass disrupting the frame shift drive of most ships).

The main downside of this ship is the high initial purchase cost and high maintenance costs. Many roles that the Asp fills can be fulfilled with cheaper ships, though the Asp's performance is typically better than that of the less expensive option.
Last edited by Chibbity; Jan 4, 2019 @ 6:36am
So I bought a Vulture ! Very nice little ship. A bit light generator.. but cool.
Inscydeus Jan 4, 2019 @ 10:26am 
I like the Vulture, but the idea that it has a high skill requirement is amusing. The Asp can do combat just fine, as long as you know how to scale your opponents to your ship and loadout - NPCs are easy, for the most part, and you shouldn't have much trouble with anything up to other Asps and below. It all depends where and what you are fighting in it - PVP, CZs and Thargoids are a bad idea and you would have to take care not to aggro wings of ships in a haz res but anything else should be fairly risk free.
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Date Posted: Jan 4, 2019 @ 4:56am
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