Talk:Intelli Jet/@comment-71.77.5.133-20120405230917/@comment-7404610-20130324193902

Yes, the Dephase is stronger in 3/4 stats, but the IntelliJet is so easy to build in large numbers (which take up only one slot when mounted) that I don't feel bad about using them in combat. More powerful and more expensive weapons are like the fancy china that you leave in the display cabinet because there's never an occasion quite special enough to justify using it.

Any time I have less than 100 IntelliJets mounted, I go shopping for enough commodities to build a few batches.

The most common use case is to get a lock on an enemy with the IJ long before it's in range of my primary weapons, fire the missile to soften him up and freeze his trajectory so I can bring the big guns to bear, which then already have lock.

But the other use is the reverse: after I hit an enemy with my primary weapons, damage it, but it breaks off before I can finish it. Since I still have a lock on that enemy, I tap the secondary fire button and let the IntelliJet finish off that ship while I go after a healthier adversary.