Our aim was to study the trophic niche overlap between three species of obligate scavengers, the Andean Condor Vultur gryphus, Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura and American Black Vulture Coragyps atratus, which are the main avian consumers of carcasses in north-western Patagonia. However, it has been suggested that when the species do not co-evolve to achieve such segregation competition may result.
Scavenging birds using the same nutritional resources can segregate into different space and time scales. It is a very sturdy ship that does the job very well regardless.Animals that share resources tend to use different foraging strategies in order to decrease potential competition. I've flown a Vulture and although I think I'd probably be more effective on it, I'm having a lot of fun with the Courier. Personally, now that there are way less bigger ships in RES areas and as such flying a more fragile ship is heaps less dangerous I'd say you're probably better off with the Vulture in terms of raw power, but a courier is a great ship there as well nonetheless, albeit you'll probably won't need something as well defended most of the time and the distributor is slow to the point of being a problem on occasion. In a standoff against a big ship I'd put my money on the Courier, but neither of the two are ships designed to 1-on-1 say, a Conda. Canopy is terribly exposed in both ships, but for what it's worth I'd assume the Courier's won't catch *all* front fire, just most of it. In the end both can stay on a Pythons tail just as good, and outmaneuver eagles in the hands of a skilled pilot- just in a different way (Vultures being the more easy and newbie friendly, while the courier makes more use of FA-OFF and strafing maneuvers).Ĭourier is better shielded but less maneuverable, better powerplant but worse distributor, more versatile weapons wise but overall less firepower and has more compartments, that you could argue are not that needed, but having 3 shield cell banks can give you a lot of standing capabilities if you get ganged on. The much more light weight Courier however got faster and more reactive thrusters, giving it supreme boost and strafing speed. The vulture got the faster turn rates, only surpassed by the eagle. Further decreasing either its survive-ability or credits per hour, which given more early visits at the next station transfers in less credits per hour again.Īgility-wise both aint that much apart.
However, both, the courier and the vulture are especially vulnerable to small and medium ships (and the vulture to large ones as well)- thus the courier sticks at hunting down whatever can be dangerous for it and even makes the best money from that, while the vulture will have to take care of less optimal targets, and given its heat- will likely have to do so often. To keep up with the credits per time the Vulture needs to hunt down big ships amass. Now the credit difference between medium and large isnt that much in a conflict zone. It takes a lot longer for large ships though. Its 3 Medium weapons allow the Courier to shred small ships a lot faster than a vulture would, while being about on par with it on medium sized ships. In a conflict zone, it is vastly different in RES mind you. Because of the layout of most conflict zones and the only small differences in pay out between different ship sizes, the courier can earn more credits per hour than any Vulture. Courier is just a "cool" ship, drawing considerably less aggro. Courier got better survive-ability (Stronger shields while presenting a smaller hitbox and counting as "small", thus most ships will do decreased damage against the already stronger shields- IF they hit at all).Ģ. Originally posted by Nobody:The vulture that good? Hm, well then I start to farm conflict zones xD It is, but the courier excels in combat zones for a few reasons:ġ.
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