Ok, I guess I’m breaking the trend - I’ve ended up (after quite a bit of experimentation) with twin large turret beams on the top and gimballed multi-cannon on all the other points. The turret beams have significantly lower damage than fixed or gimballed, but in a turning fight they keep firing on target the whole time. An engineered power distributor is a must though for this to work.
What kind of ship? I tried large beam turrets on my Clipper because of the horrible convergence, but it left a lot to be desired.
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I use this on my Krait Mk II and also have a combat Cobra with similar loadout (but 1 size smaller weapons). I have lost count of the number of NPCs I’ve de-shielded or destroyed in tight turns where I couldn’t get the gimballs on target. This may well be just my poor piloting skills, but works for me 
Patch incoming!
UTC? …us that the same as GMT / Z ?
i updated this morning about 11.30 uk time
Afaik:
UTC is Zulu.
GMT has daylight saving time and therefore is UTC+1 in summer
Excuse the slight pedantry:
I’m happy to be corrected but I beleive GMT doesn’t include daylight saving time. The UK switches over to British Summer Time (BST) in the spring and reverts back to GMT in the autumn. I think on MS Windows when setting the time zone this is displayed as GMT + daylight savings (or something similar), thus causing confusion. There is a separate option for plain GMT, usually at the bottom of the list.
Or at least that’s how it used to be. I’m a bit out of date these days.
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Today I learned something. Let’s see if I can remember tomorrow…
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Yep GMT and UTC are one in the same for our purposes. GMT is older then the UTC. IIRC UTC was established in the 60s
Noob question - am I wasting my time salvaging wrecks? Specifically the ones where you just get some “spare parts”. Not the ones where you get stuff you can sell in the market?
Those spare parts are materials that will come in handy later on when you start using the engineers. It’s probably not worth going after them specifically until then, but unless you’re in a hurry you might as well collect what’s there as it will likely save a little time further down the road.
Honestly probably not? You’ll build up an inventory over time, and as Havlok said, down the road they’ll come in handy. Ditto for any data you scan from any of those wrecks as well.
Thanks to both. Collecting the debris is giving me some control practice so I guess I’ll keep at it. I’m still in the Noob sector-the non-pointy scissors area, as it were-so I’ll keep at it for a while.
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I really like the upisnotjump channel. He makes really cool vids
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