Finally Found a Dragonfly- and OH MY YES

[MrPurple33]

The Dragonfly Eluded Me for Some Time- Just by the Way it Looked I Wanted One

Now that I found One, and am doing a New Profile with it, OH MY IT"S NICE

I did some Pre-Start Weapon Testing on another Level 44 Profile, and it's Crazy Good-
1- The Dragonfly is a Corvette, I thought it was a Yacht for some reason
2- It Looks even Cooler than I thought
3- It has the Ranger Cloak and Hide and whatever the Gears Do
(I shall be Testing that interesting feature out)
4- THREE Triple Barrel Gun Mounts- 2 Frontal Twinned Guns, and a 1pt Rear Gunner
5- With the 16 Combat Point Weapon-Per-Class Increase, I will have 7 Weapons Total
6- Which I Tested with 2 Red Rapid Lasers per Triple Barrel, Just Continuous Fire
7- And am going to Rotate a Mix of 2pt Heavy Cannons, 2pt Missiles, 2 Railguns,
ALL WITH THE TRIPLE FIRE - and the Capper,
8- SIX TORPEDOES FIRING AT ONCE- You Are Reading That Correctly-
SIX Torpedoes you can also Fan Out for a Spread Pattern of Epic Hellfire

The Dragonfly is already now One of my Favorite Ships, and I've only had it a Day-
It's In that "Special Ship" Category along with the Mi-Laoshu and the Lacewing-
I Still Slightly Like the Dragon Just a Bit More as a Fighter over the Dragonfly,
But I'm Going to Go Nuts with This Beast of an Attack Ship

Truly, An Excellent Design on the Dragonfly Laious

[Moon-Shadow]

She has only one drawback, she can take badly for a fleet, because of the non-expandable weapons space.

Otherwise, the ship is great if you use it yourself.

Especially great when you start with the Karma Perk, where you can not buy equipment and ships.

[phoenix_54d]

The 'gears', MrPurple, have two uses you can mouse over for.
There's a low chance every time you scavenge of gaining a charge. Each one grants crew efficiency.
You can ALSO, going to the ship enhancements tab of Crafting, spend charges (which you'll then have to run around and recover) to buy enhancements without paying in materials (like those refined and ardonian components).

[Laious]

Oh yeah! She is perfect for a Self Reliant run :)

From the few ships I designed myself (again, using modular assets), it's my favorite.

[LeftPaw]

I have seen these and dismissed them, now I wants one.

[Dud]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Laious:

Oh yeah! She is perfect for a Self Reliant run :)

From the few ships I designed myself (again, using modular assets), it's my favorite.

And you need to design more, cause it's excellent :)

[Laious]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dud:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Laious:

Oh yeah! She is perfect for a Self Reliant run :)

From the few ships I designed myself (again, using modular assets), it's my favorite.

And you need to design more, cause it's excellent :)

Thank you, will do! ;)

[LeftPaw]

Darn. I can't remember were I found one now.

[Astasia]

I found one in an asteroid rush sector, it was almost instantly destroyed before I could do anything about it.

[LeftPaw]

I was tripping over them until I found out it is a ship to own, now I can't find one for love nor money.

[Aurelia]

I absolutely love the dragonfly. I choose it for my playthrough's starting ship. Especially with my latest run of 5x difficulty+self reliant. I managed to find another as a derelect aswell, to add it to my fleet.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Moon-Shadow:

She has only one drawback, she can take badly for a fleet, because of the non-expandable weapons space.

Otherwise, the ship is great if you use it yourself.

Especially great when you start with the Karma Perk, where you can not buy equipment and ships.

It isn't a bad fleet ship actually, infact for what i'm using it for, weaponspace is a wastespace, and she is better served not having weapons equipped at all, since that will decloak her. Infact she is perfect for a drone fleet ship. having 4 free enhancement slots with the drone enhancements and multiple attack/repair drone bays make her an amazing fleet ship.

Just checked my dragonfly and realized that I had ultimately equipped it with a weapon. Without a weapon equipped, they do not engage in combat, even sending drones out. They can still be used as a repair boat though, since you can beef them up for drone repairing rather smoothly. It used to be that repair drones were not used by fleet ships to repair others, but it seems that that was changed so now they do.

Their weapon slotting is indeed weird for a general combat ship, but I never pictured them for that anyway. They are still handy to be able to be cloaked in fields to avoid being a focal point of attack.

[Myriad]

I got one a little while ago. Although I already have a Dread which I'm using as a Carrier. I'm thinking of ways to put it in my fleet. It's indeed a nice ship. I haven't tested it yet, but if what Moon-Shadow says is true, and you can't expand the weapon count for fleet ships, it will have little use since I have a Lacewing. Still, I'm sure I can stick a few crafted weapons on it, even though it will never be at It's full potential. Extending perks and skills to the fleet would fix that.

[MrPurple33]

Getting the Dragonfly up to a Full, Player Controlled 7 Weapon Capability IS Awesome,
Even without considering the Mind-Boggling Option of Launching SIX Torpedoes at once-
But, even with just the Regular 4 Weapons it's a Great Attack Ship-

As I'm at Level 14 and building up to the Weapon Increase, I'm still shredding every enemy
I come across- I'm doing just 2 Red Rapid Lasers on the Front, and another 1 on the Rear
with a Good Gunner- With the Triple Barrels on all 3 Guns, you can do a Heavy Rate of Fire
with a Regular Laser, with Rapid Lasers, you get an Extra Fast, Never Ending Fire Rate as
Long as you want- I've also Used the Ranger Camouflage to Time and Ambush quite a few
Pirate Ships- a very nice feature, mostly Defensive and Hide, but Ambush Options as well

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aurelia:

I absolutely love the dragonfly. Without a weapon equipped, they do not engage in combat, even sending drones out.

This is an interesting use also for the Dragonfly- It stays Camouflaged and sends out
Attack Drones instead, with of course, the extra 2 Drones it gets

Although it seems somewhat of a Lesser Use for the Dragonfly, with how Brutal and Lethal
an Assault Ship it can be, This shows again all the different setups, tactics, and flexible ways
you can do with Star Valor as a Game in General

[mintymind]

try it with 60 piloting. It gets kind of absurd. Front-firing sustained 8-9k beam damage per second.

[AvatarOfWar]

There seems to be zero info out there about the dragonfly. Searching online yields this thread as the only hit. Was it a semi-recent addition to the game? Which faction sells it?

[Dud]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AvatarOfWar:

There seems to be zero info out there about the dragonfly. Searching online yields this thread as the only hit. Was it a semi-recent addition to the game? Which faction sells it?

Yes it is a recent addition, civilian stations sell it.