' Wrote:Indeed, I have used a CAU8 Camara with Belial Turrets. It pretty much destroys everything; it's even capable of fighting a gunboat.
However, there need to be some freighters that are actually used for freighting, by more people than just the ones who can't afford a transport yet.
At the moment, freighters are a poor man's transport and a strategist's fighter.
Some expensive freighters for quick hauling of cargo would be really neat. Some freighters with enough cargo to actually be useful for hauling; some high-end freighter that costs as much as a 4k transport, with 2k cargo, and your typical freighter's speed for effectively escaping piracy, and such. Of course, such 2k freighter would be a larger target than other freighters, but it would still share their high cruise speed and maneuver faster than a 2k transport would (While being much more expensive than any 2k transport).
Basically, what I'm saying is: Freighters need to get back into the game of freighting.
No, just no. Freighters are supposed to -freight-. Using them for fighting is creative, and I do indeed do that, but turning them into bombers would simply be a complete abuse.
' Wrote:Indeed, I have used a CAU8 Camara with Belial Turrets. It pretty much destroys everything; it's even capable of fighting a gunboat.
Thank God it has no CD:P
With the introduction of turret steering and zooming, Camara's, Anki's and Pelicans are now the poor man's gunship. (Yes I know Pelican is a transport, but it does mount fighter turrets.)
A lot of people praise the Camara, and I am sure it is good, I just have a lovely counter in the form of my capital armored werewolf... I can just fly right up to them, hit them with a tartarus and then fire my 6 sammaels at them until they melt. I can out-tank any freighter in regenerations and hull and I can out turn them.
I love nothing more than putting down those cocky camara pilots:P
Seriously, some overpriced freighters that maybe have 800 cargo, slightly more than normal freighters, and maybe a little more combat-effective, with much higher prices, would be nice to see, so that freighters could be more than just a poor man's transport or a pirate's turretsteering fighter, but instead carry out their intended role as a reliable small transport for freelancers.
Seriously, some overpriced freighters that maybe have 800 cargo, slightly more than normal freighters, and maybe a little more combat-effective, with much higher prices, would be nice to see, so that freighters could be more than just a poor man's transport or a pirate's turretsteering fighter, but instead carry out their intended role as a reliable small transport for freelancers.
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(03-25-2013, 12:31 PM)TLI-Inferno Wrote: I'll take the yacht for 50 million.
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A wild jammi appears!
Watch this space for .87 - while the freighters themselves aren't changing, they are gaining some lucrative economic options that will suit their purposes to a T.
(03-25-2013, 04:40 PM)jammi Wrote: A wild jammi appears!
Watch this space for .87 - while the freighters themselves aren't changing, they are gaining some lucrative economic options that will suit their purposes to a T.