Hood, I have to admit that those supernovas filled my vision too when I read her post, but it is a challenge, you gotta admit that :) it was fun dodging those :laugh:
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor
Dab, I have to disagree. It is possible to dodge them almost as easily as other missiles, and without them a fighter is limited to spending vast amounts of money fighting capships (possibly as much as purchasing a second fighter in a single battle). You may believe this is how it should be, but when practically every player on the server owns a capship, all with several infinite ammo missile launchers as standard, I think it only fair that there's something to level the playing field a little.
As far as I know countermeasures still work against them, so if you really can't dodge them you at least have 70 shots worth of decoys. If that's the only weapon a "noob" can use to hit you with, then I'm sure 70 shots is enough time to exact some retribution.
As for the lag issue, well unfortunately that's unavoidable at the moment as we all know. Consider this thread in a hypothetical sense, if the world (server) was perfect ;0)
Its not a noob weapon dab, its a tactical weapon.
Also, it gives the opponent a run for the money...
And that of the noob vs the veteran being pwned by the noob, well, not fully true as i have been faced by noobs before with swarms and they were defeated.
I remember defeating Sam back when the swarm was a SWARM. and she wasnt a noob. She had swarms, and i had novas. Well, nova won to the swarm.
Swarm is a pretty weak weapon now. It takes a lot of missiles to destroy a fighter.
I use the swarm and it allows you to keep the enemy at a distance.
Also, there is a cure for the swarm, it is called, the Nova.
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Not if your not in a Ravenclaw or Talon. Swarm does alot fo damage to Eagles since they are still weak to missiles.
Badger... We have been trying to make BSs STRONGER not even the field so a fighter can still kill one. They SHOULD be completely overpowered compared to a fighter!
Now tell me, how can that tiny fighter bring down that HUGE battleship?
Im not referring to the RH bomber. That ship is ok. But i put it for size comparison.
The BS should totally overpower by far a fighter like a raven's claw.
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Ok, anyone tried swarming one of those to death? My point is they are not overpowered and as an infinite ammo fighter weapon, it should stay. I didn't mean to come across as if it should be a BS killer weapon, only that as a weapon type it's only fair to have a similar thing across the board.
I'm all for increasing capship strength, but not at the cost of fighter strength.
[edit - on second read, contradicted myself, sorry]
Thats what I am proposing. Only the Ravenclaw and Talon ships need downgraded but the weapons can stay the same. But the BS and BS WEAPS both need a serious upgrade.
Tain,Jun 26 2006, 07:26 PM Wrote:Because as they say, size is not everything. :D
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I know but in starships is not the case. A BS power core is bigger than a fighter. I mean, you could park a fighter inside the power core of a BS.
That means that the weps should do many times more damage than the weps of a fighter due to the power available to power them up.
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