Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-191.177.79.120-20150423135927/@comment-26257239-20150430000505

191.177.79.120 wrote: Finally I bought the T-50. Is there any tips about how to upgrade it fast so I can make it competitive? To earn credits quickly, you have a few options. For now, X3 forced sorties in TDM naval fleet is a good idea so long as you do decently. When that ends though, you'll want to use a good Co-Op strategy such as the following: Find a room with 8 players around 15-1600ish with a map that is easy to complete (not hard, Aerospace center seems to be very popular for these rooms though, which is fine). These rooms sometimes have the message "Aiming for special raid missions", which always attracts plenty of players. Playing these rooms is almost always guaranteed to get you an S rank. Again, X3 forced sorties will make plenty of credits and research. If you really want to make a ton of credits and research quickly, then do the Co-Op strategy with contracts and Xe3 forced sorties. It gets even better when you find a special raid mission....

As for upgrading the T-50 itself, I have a few tips for that. The T-50 at level 8 has solid stats, though I am only using this as a comparison because it is the level my own T-50 is currently at. For PVP you're going to want QAAMs as your special weapon, while you can use whatever works best in Co-Op. As for parts, the flight dynamics control module is a good one to start with, an increase in QAAM load capacity is also good, as is Armor LL. Since it's already in the S range for speed and manueverability at level 8, the rest is more or less up to you. Upgrade whatever you feel is weak, but make sure to capitalize on the manueverability, which can always use parts.