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Spud Nick:
Maybe it's just my poor piloting skills but I find drogue chute to be less than effective when dealing with balloon popping weapons. Once my balloon is gone I will turn on drogue chute to slow my decent only to have the enemy still in gun arcs popping my balloon again or worse.

For the most part I have found it better to just drop below there gun arcs and maneuver around terrain. The only success I have had with this tool was in a metamidion against a blender fish. Head to head I was able to keep my guns in arc as we slowly fell downward.

Is it just bad judgment on my part? Is there a time to use it and a time not too? I would like to hear your thoughts. Do you guys on The Lucky Duck see a lot of pilots using this tool when you fight them? If so, do you find it easier to kill them?

HamsterIV:
It feels like a very passive tool which doesn't sit will with me. When my balloon gets popped I start screaming and smacking that thing like a monkey on meth. If I took Drogue Chute I would have to sit back with the tool on and hope that my crew can fix the balloon and kill the enemy without my help. That is not my style of captaining.

geggis:

--- Quote from: Spud Nick on October 18, 2013, 11:02:11 am ---Head to head I was able to keep my guns in arc as we slowly fell downward.

--- End quote ---

As a Mobula pilot, that's pretty much how I use them if I get caught up in carronade fire. Full throttle backwards, drogue chute on, yell for help from other captain(s), balloon engineer camping balloon while the other two crew members try to blast/fire stack the carronade(s) out. The drogue chute has saved our ship so many times, usually buying us enough time for our ally to come and save us, or for us to out-gun the enemy. I don't leave home without it!

Zenark:
It keeps you alive long enough for your ally to come help, I've also used it on Sniper ships as a sort of braking system.... When I used to fly Sniper ships.

RearAdmiralZill:
Altitude is > Drouge Chute, but it is finite if you get into that locked state, which is where Drouge can mean life/death. The 3v3 tourney taught me that good lesson.

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