Because they were the image of the two most widely used ships in the game and vanila freelancer.
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Honestly something that I feel makes some sense in regards to their nerf is how old the Sabre and Eagle lines are.
Both are still very viable, reliable ships, but as technology continues to improve in the colonies, the Eagle and Sabre might start to become outdated in the eyes of groups. Corporate entities like IC might try using the spiffy new Renzu line. The Maltese decided at long last to usher in the new incarnation of their shipline and relegate the venerable Borderworlds ships to secondary and tertiary pilot duty.
Honestly I like to imagine that situation in a RP-able context like that.
(10-31-2013, 12:19 AM)LunaticOnTheGrass Wrote: Honestly something that I feel makes some sense in regards to their nerf is how old the Sabre and Eagle lines are.
Both are still very viable, reliable ships, but as technology continues to improve in the colonies, the Eagle and Sabre might start to become outdated in the eyes of groups. Corporate entities like IC might try using the spiffy new Renzu line. The Maltese decided at long last to usher in the new incarnation of their shipline and relegate the venerable Borderworlds ships to secondary and tertiary pilot duty.
Honestly I like to imagine that situation in a RP-able context like that.
The thing I find weird with the eagle at least, is that it went from being a perfectly useable ship to being really awful. The only RP reasoning I can think of is that someone simultaneously sabotaged every CTE Eagle in existence. Same applies for Sabre too really.
Something I dont get; is I hear the sabre at least, was initially buffed from Vanilla for Disco. Now its been nerfed again? Why not just keep all the vanilla VHFs with their vanilla stats? Seems best to me.
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They swapped their cores with each other- bad and stupid but still bearable.
They also done other changes as well? I haven't flown them since a lot of time.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
(10-31-2013, 12:19 AM)LunaticOnTheGrass Wrote: Honestly something that I feel makes some sense in regards to their nerf is how old the Sabre and Eagle lines are.
Both are still very viable, reliable ships, but as technology continues to improve in the colonies, the Eagle and Sabre might start to become outdated in the eyes of groups.
and sairs have to stick with the titan... slow, mine-sucking, energy-hungry gunned titan