Laser tactics - Revision history

Cholmondely: /* Usage */ Added another of Cody's tips.

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‎Usage: Added another of Cody's tips.

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Cholmondely: /* Someone Launched A Missile */ Incorporated Cody's correction

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‎Someone Launched A Missile: Incorporated Cody's correction

Cholmondely: Added KZ9999's manual with addenda. Tweaks.

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Cholmondely: Added note on small sized ships

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 * Combat is stressful, but take care to breathe evenly - again to reduce the chance of jerking the targeting reticule off the enemy ship. They say [[Religion]] helps - try meditating on the [[Church of Giles the Creator|The Pool of Pellucid Placidity]]. Others swear by [[Ebortsa's lucky charm]].
 * Only fire when you are sure your target is in proper position - especially with military lasers. Heating your lasers up firing into empty space is guaranteed to result in your laser overheating when you really need it and you actually have the target properly lined up. As soon as you see the target drift out of the sights, '''stop firing'''.
-* [[User:Cody|Cody]] (an Elite combateer) suggests to use the military laser as a single-shot weapon (it does more damage anyway and such usage prevents it heating up).
+* [[User:Cody|Cody]] (an Elite combateer) suggests to use the military laser as a single-shot weapon (it does more damage anyway and such usage prevents it heating up): [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=271716#p271716 "Dogfighting: use injectors (briefly) to get in close, and make every shot count"] (2020).
 * For keyboards since v.1.77 (''ie'' with a functioning '''control''' key) and for [[Joysticks_and_Gamepads#Joystick Precision (sensitivity) Indicator|controllers]] that support precision mode: ''use it'' - especially for distant targets. You should normally be in precision mode when firing. If you can work out how to use [[Dizzy's guide to Setting up Joystick Axis Profiles in Oolite 1.80|splines]], they are even better than precision mode.
 * Consider fitting aft lasers and practising combat with your aft view. An aft laser can help you out of a sticky situation when your main weapon overheats.

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 *[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=495 Favourite Combat Tactics] 2005-16
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7053 Stalemate frustration] 2009
 *[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=257726#p257726 Any combat tips?] 2017

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 === Run, Run, Run Away ===
-Only heroes/idiots stay and fight to the death. If you are out-classed, just turn tail and run. Most pirates have limited window of opportunities between police patrols and can’t afford to waste time. If you keep running long enough, they give up and their [[IFF]] flags will go yellow. Another advantage of this that if you are in the stable systems it shouldn’t be long before you run in to a local Government or GalCop patrol. They will come to your aid if you are attacked (and legally clean enough.) If you run long enough, you will end up at the GCW station aegis, and any violence there will prompt a very aggressive response from the stations’ Viper fleet.
+Only heroes/idiots stay and fight to the death. If you are out-classed, just turn tail and run. Most pirates have limited window of opportunities between police patrols and can’t afford to waste time. If you keep running long enough, they give up and their [[IFF System]] flags will go yellow. Another advantage of this that if you are in the stable systems it shouldn’t be long before you run in to a local Government or GalCop patrol. They will come to your aid if you are attacked (and legally clean enough.) If you run long enough, you will end up at the GCW station aegis, and any violence there will prompt a very aggressive response from the stations’ Viper fleet.
 === Dump And Run ===

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 === Someone Launched A Missile ===
-When an opponent has launched a missile at you and you don’t have a [[ECM]] System, you have only two options. '''One''', launch a missile at them in the hope that they have to ECM yours and take out theirs in the process. '''Two''', run as fast as you can and give your ship enough time to recharge enough of the energy banks/shields to take the hit, or that it has to trail you for so long that it runs out of fuel and self-destructs. When you want to make your missile count, try to close in as close as possible to the target before launching, reducing their chance of being able ECM it in time. <br>
+When an opponent has launched a missile at you and you don’t have a [[ECM]] System, you have only two options. '''One''', launch a [[Missile]] at the missile or at them in the hope that they have to ECM yours and take out theirs in the process. '''Two''', run as fast as you can and give your ship enough time to recharge enough of the energy banks/shields to take the hit, or that it has to trail you for so long that it runs out of fuel and self-destructs. [[Witch Fuel Injectors]] really help here. When you want to make your own missile count, try to close in as close as possible to the target before launching, reducing their chance of being able ECM it in time. <br>
 There ''is'' a '''third''' option: shoot down the missile. You have very little time to do it and you will have to be a very sharp shooter, but it's a possibility and the combat console helps the pilot here by offering the target-nearest-incoming-missile control (<font color="Red">'''T'''</font> targets nearest incoming missile), which bypasses the entire process of having to center the target before it is registered. It was implemented for offering the incoming missile as target for turrets, for the ships that have turrets, but it can be useful also for immediately letting the pilot know where the incoming missile is and maybe giving a couple more extra critical seconds to react. If you ''do'' do this, if the missile is performing a spiralling vortex, don't try to follow it with your gunsight - let it come to you.
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 *[[How do I ...]] dock / succeed in trading / win a fight / configure my controller/joystick ''etc''
 *[[Oolite Tactics]] has a long list of OXP options and a couple of essays.
-*[[Missile Tactics]]
+*[[Missile tactics]]
 [[Category:Oolite]][[Category:Help pages]]

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 *[[How do I ...]] dock / succeed in trading / win a fight / configure my controller/joystick ''etc''
 *[[Oolite Tactics]] has a long list of OXP options and a couple of essays.
 [[Category:Oolite]][[Category:Help pages]]

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 If you dislike the "roll" in side views then use the ''yaw'' controls ("<font color="Red">''','''</font>" and "<font color="Red">'''.'''</font>" keys) instead of the ''roll'' controls. See [[Roll vs Yaw crusades]] for more details on changing yaw & roll.
 {{:Combat Manoeuvers}}
-=== Note for Elite players ===
+=== Note for Elite pilots ===
 The Manfred Manoeuver above only works for Oolite, not 8-bit Elite. Sorry!
-=== Note for FE2/FFE players ===
+=== Note for FE2/FFE pilots ===
-This is pretty jolly useless for the Newtonian combat of FE2/FFE! Look [http://alioth.net/ajn/index.html here] instead.
+This is pretty jolly useless for the Newtonian combat of FE2/FFE! Read [http://alioth.net/ajn/index.html here] instead. Or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UMIbdN0UFE this].
 == Size of ship ==