(01-25-2014, 09:41 PM)Haste Wrote: Transports thrust pretty fast. I'm not sure a dessie can effectively kill them before they make it back to port.
Certainly can, even if they get out of the 2K Cerb range, you can thrust after them, EK, tap thrust down to 200, recharge core while catching them up, and cerb/basic rape them when you get in range.
Bad thing about Cruisers is, if you're following a medium transport, they can thrust away while dodging, if you need to thrust after them, you can't take down a lane until your core recharges, during this time, the medium transport can take the lane and flee.
Similar thing happens with Gunboats IF you have full Cerbs, you can still fire one Solaris/Basic turret with no core, but not a Cerb.
Personally I don't enjoy pirating in a cruiser, especially solo pirating, and if you're pirating in a group, a few bombers is all you need, or a bomber/battle transport combo.
(01-26-2014, 01:09 PM)destructivemesures Wrote: I got robbedby kusarian battle ship , i did not want to escape then :p . No way i could escape in a stork
(01-26-2014, 12:01 AM)Thargoid Wrote: Personally I don't enjoy pirating in a cruiser, especially solo pirating, and if you're pirating in a group, a few bombers is all you need, or a bomber/battle transport combo.
If you're pirating solo Ptrans or a bomber, if you are pirating in a group all you need are VHF's or HF's.
Now, pirating solo in a bomber became bit harder since they're slow and transports got buffed, but hey I like that traders actually stand a chance now and it promotes team work.
(02-17-2014, 02:27 AM)Papa Oomaumau Wrote: Either way - when you let go, and stop holding on so tightly, life can actually be fun - you can't steer a train, but you can RIDE it!
(01-26-2014, 12:01 AM)Thargoid Wrote: Personally I don't enjoy pirating in a cruiser, especially solo pirating, and if you're pirating in a group, a few bombers is all you need, or a bomber/battle transport combo.
If you're pirating solo Ptrans or a bomber, if you are pirating in a group all you need are VHF's or HF's.
Now, pirating solo in a bomber became bit harder since they're slow and transports got buffed, but hey I like that traders actually stand a chance now and it promotes team work.
Agreed, it's always nice to have one bomber though, to take the trader out quickly, the rest can act as support to prevent ganks.
A lot of solo pirates have switched to transports to kill other transports, it's now 10 times easier to take down a transport than it was when everyone was flying bombers, just point, shoot and tank ( you can out-manoeuvre them of course, but it's not necessary, the ptrans has more armor and more core regen than most other trans).
Traders are worse off now that they ever were, they were all smug about having more speed, and better guns, but try running from my CAU8 pirate transport you punk! hahaha