Capital Ship Guidelines - Rules of engagement.

[mc_Floyd]

Oh my :lol: this thread is so good. lets see what i can rememeber, i really liked the first post so lets quote a bit from this

ECG players have a vast amount of resources. Nearly every ECG player has accumulated enough wealth to own more than one Cap.

I guess the RP stuff is all said...please, really think about it. I have some really rare but nice experiences, where some of your guys tried to RP before they ganked...keep it up and it will get better.

You fear that the...

Corsair empire becomes the nation of ganked.

...shall i tell you what, the Corsair empire IS a "nation of ganked". Do you want to know why? Because everyone CAN gank them!

In your first post you are talking a lot of the skill of your members

Capital ship pilots shall be selected carefully after a demonstration of high skill levels.

I hope this will start soon, because the most of your capitalship captains lack skill, beginning from the basics.
When you see 2 cruisers, a capship and 2 bombers whiping out 9 Osiris/Legates in a row without even being damaged...well it describes the skill level of your pilots very good.

But that is Ok as you said

Capital ships are one of the most satisfying gameplay options that Freelancer discovery has to offer

You know why? There is nothing bigger in this game, the Legate is one of the strongest capships (statwise) and when you shoot on smaller (nearly everything is smaller than a legate) targets the chance that you can destroy an enemy is way higher than in a snub. Appearently you got the feeling you had become an ace in this game, after playing it for four months and this feeling makes capships so satisfying...

Well, till the moment you fight against some guys who took their time to learn some basics of the game and the fighting system and whipe whole gamma with a few fighters/bombers.

The Corsairs can field more caps... or the Hessians can enter the system and wipe it out.

More Corsair caps will just make more scrap flying around in crete in these situations.

As i mentioned before, the only chance to avoid these ganks is to bring fighters and bombers in these fights, but that is my personal oppinion.

At least you cant expect a player being able to fly a capship without any knowledge of how to fly a snub. Using a capships full potential is way more difficult than using a fighters or bombers. you promised in your first post, that only then sign of some skill will give ECG pilots the chance to bring a capital ship in orbit.
well make sure they can fly snubs and have learned the basics of fleet battles, before you let your men lead a whole crew in their obvious death.

Also think RPwise in the current situation in gamma, when you lose 4 caps fighting 8 hessian snubs and you kill the hessians at the end (what i really doubt, you really cannot kill any snub that pays attention with a cap ship), you however lost a hundred times more men than the hessians did and this is really not worth it.

From my personal experience as member of the [RHA], the only thing that stops a raid in gamma is the arrival of many snubs not the arrival of many caps. many caps will only make the ones in fighters, switch to their bombers :D

Well thats my 2cents and as i said in the beginning, keep up the good work, just overthink you Capship usage;).

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