' Wrote:Bases need less defences so people stop hanging around them.
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Both Java and Cali possess sufficient defences to scare off anything enough.
lolwhat? You can park a Dread 1 click from Java and nothing bad will really happen to that Dread that is done by the station. Cali ain't that much better.
Java even has blind spots on top and the bottom where you could sit all day and not a single shot from the base will be hitting you. That's ridicilous. People use this to camp the base with their Gunships and engage little Fighters that happen to undock.
@Desari
Unhonourable because we add or up the guns? What? People will never change. Deal with that.
And if their shiny capships won't get taken down by the station, they'll keep camping them.
Also stationary weaponry range should be upped to at least the range the NPC patrols got. A max range of 2 clicks just doesn't cut it. Four or five eventually would.
' Wrote:That's the poor firing arcs of the pulses, blame the IMG for picking a really stupid base.
Cali is a rock, round and covered from most angles. It's a pirate base meant to defend against most that try and crack it.
Java however is a depot thingy where the IMG come and go, it gets raided every now and again, but it has depots and proper facilities.
lolwhat again? A -depot- positioned at a place where nearly every local pirat happens to come around should not be properly defended you say, so that the pirates can come in, take their free candy, and shoo along? It's not that people would defend their stuff... why should they?
And Cali got to the standard base defenses also several weapon platforms, that sort of stuff that could the miners actually deploy too.
And btw. you honestly want to say that the IMG is to -blame- for a game-mechanic issue after the Discovery-Mod added pilotable capships and that because of the fact nobody ever upgraded the station defenses to deal with that? Sweet.
That's what you have blasters and shooters on your ships for, you dig?
The station itself can't ever be destroyed, and you can just dock instantly, so what exactly is the problem?
We need less people cowardly hugging bases.
' Wrote:And btw. you honestly want to say that the IMG is to -blame- for a game-mechanic issue after the Discovery-Mod added pilotable capships and that because of the fact nobody ever upgraded the station defenses to deal with that? Sweet.
There is a lot wrong with Disco, and the IMG's defensive problems are the least of all the possible evils.
Scared one of those upgraded bases could harm your neat Togo or what?
Ofc people will with stronger installations use those as tactical advantage. But that is still better as having several Dreads and/or Carriers camping your base.
But sure. You can't care less I guess what happens to the miners in the Taus.
' Wrote:I'm an agressive combatant, I don't usually find myself playing defensive, much less at a base.
And I'm not a stinking coward like most of the server so it's np.
Oh, we're cowards now because we use an actual valid tactic like retreating to your own base when you face really bad odds like three Gunships against one Fighter (yep, welcome to the Taus)?
And that is your style of playing, does not mean others are doing it wrong.
Also, if retreating to your base is a -stinking coward- tactic now, how's it with -shieldrunning-? That's fine I guess, I'm sure you happen to use Fighters too.
oh, and Divine, unless you did not know. peaple can change.. at least in my book. I havent gone as pessimistic as that yet.
And if I say its dishounorable, its because peaople who Are at java, want to be able to have a drink there while been safe from any intruder, Because they have gone mad about constanct attacks.
It is equally worst for base camper, yea you see outcast saying crap at right in your face 24/7.. Well I say crap but its mostly camper that call for a gank when they see more then 1 sunbcraft.
My opinion about the issue was that it is a problem of position.