Best way of capturing the Erlking (small spoilers)

[Lord Dickinson McCheddar]

I've found that trying to do this on the map results in weirdness including some kind of loop with pods resetting in a square around the station boundary over and over.

One way appears to be with a narrow window to...

1. Park a good destroyed by it and a transport for troops.
2. Teleport to the destroyer.
3. Pause straight after.
4. Set the transport to board the Erlking, set the first drop down to very strong as turrets don't appear active.
5. Unpause and rush to control your destroyer.
6. Use the main weapons to knock it down to 80% hull or just under.
7. When the hull is low enough pause.
8. Teleport somewhere else away from the station.
9. Unpause and wait for events to transpire.

I'm not sure if this is the best way and it's in a narrow window before the station turns hostile but it appears to so far be working though I still have to see what happens when the troops take the ship.

[Damedius]

How do you go about finding it in the first place? How does it compare to the Syn destroyer?

[ArcticISAF]

I won’t go too much into it, but last time I did it (6.1 or something), you can just board it all OOS without any clever tricks. Might be some caveats to it and maybe it’s changed… but see for yourself I suppose :P

Erlking is quite good, although it shines most when it’s kitted out with green mods on the turrets. The huge range and firepower gives a nice area of denial to fighters and focusing on a K or something will gun it down decently. Main gun is ok? Haven’t formed much of an opinion on it. Syn is more nimble in turning and a bit better for flying around in. Syn is likely more focused (all plasma, or all pulse, etc), you can mix of course. Erlking is multi-purpose by default. Location is in Windfall sectors.

[Lord Dickinson McCheddar]

Originally posted by Damedius:

How do you go about finding it in the first place? How does it compare to the Syn destroyer?

I'm not sure yet as I'm still trying to take it, this method lets you get troops on, I didn't send enough. Someone else might know.

I'm trying something else. I can dock on the keep safe so I'm going to try all of these illegal hack items I have in my HQ.

[Lord Dickinson McCheddar]

Originally posted by ArcticISAF:

I won’t go too much into it, but last time I did it (6.1 or something), you can just board it all OOS without any clever tricks. Might be some caveats to it and maybe it’s changed… but see for yourself I suppose :P

Erlking is quite good, although it shines most when it’s kitted out with green mods on the turrets. The huge range and firepower gives a nice area of denial to fighters and focusing on a K or something will gun it down decently. Main gun is ok? Haven’t formed much of an opinion on it. Syn is more nimble in turning and a bit better for flying around in. Syn is likely more focused (all plasma, or all pulse, etc), you can mix of course. Erlking is multi-purpose by default. Location is in Windfall sectors.

The station turns hostile. I wonder if this times out eventually.

It's daft because it's hostile now while I'm in it and jumping up and down on the manager's head.

I hacked it's stuff so if it stops being hostile then I guess it doesn't matter.

[ArcticISAF]

Yeah I found the station does some funny stuff if you’re in sector. I was in the Erlking, flying it through the nearby gate. (Teleported there after it moved close to there). The station went through the whole litany of threats and warnings in short order even though I was far away now. I just zipped away and kept in travel drive up to Silent Witness. The rest of VIG didn’t seem to care thankfully. I dunno lol. As long as it works and you can get out safe, that’s the main thing.

[memo]

best way to cap anything is just do a fly by with a large transport. make sure other ship is flying slow, then pause game when 2km from target, start bording, unpause and continue, now just wait, u keep turrets offline so u dont get rep loss at all

[takoller]

Station turrets can be turned off easily enough. The cap can be done without any station or ship firing. The hint: teleport.