Underpowered ships that have been around for awhile

[crimecities]

1) You want to improve the Pelican by disabling it to mount strong guns in favor of weak (and obviously smaller) guns. The reason you state is your personal aesthetic measure. Your goal with this is to improve it's usefulness.

- Disabling a feature is not an improvement. Especially not in terms of usefulness.

2) Then you wish to make it a new shipclass which uses attributes of existing classes.

- Why?

3) After all this you obviously want to disable it to mount transport shields. You want to nerf the energy reload so it can't use an Advanced Transport shield.

- Last time I checked the Pelican could mount an ATS, but if the shield takes damage it will take ALL energy to reload. Nothing is left for guns. Isn't the current state exactly what you want then?

4) You compare it to a Train in terms of size and agility. You want to make changes (the above ones?) to make it "a really tough nut for pirates to crack".

- I use mine for combat only. Pirate hunting and scouting. PVP in Conn. What do you use yours for? Do you even have one?

My apologies. I was half asleep when I typed this up. I thought I put in something about how I thought it should be rebalanced as a hybrid freighter/transport or an ultralight gunship. Does my comments make more sense when put in the context of a complete rebalance?

[CzeReptile]

What about unused ships that are around ever since?

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[Zeb Harley]

You could have a look at the server stats which ships are really unused, or create new ones and try them out with the DevTeam.

Most ships that we have do have a certain purpose and people who care for them quite a bit.

The Pelican, for example has been altered quite a bit in the new release. The loadout you see in my Avy is not quite possible any more. It now has an incredible possible forward firepower of (27000 hulldamage per second and 24000 per single salvo) with a slighly decreased rear firepower.

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for those who missed it: the moral of it all is ----> traders with teeth are fun for pirates. - within reason.

[farmerman]

Maybe the regular Armored Transport could be made to be along the lines of the Rheinlandic counterpart (the Ragnar)?

Or remake the 4.84 version only with a freighter shield? :ylove:

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Faction info links: Samura Heavy Industries : LWB : Watchers

[Zeb Harley]

Maybe the regular Armored Transport could be made to be along the lines of the Rheinlandic counterpart (the Ragnar)?

Or remake the 4.84 version only with a freighter shield? :ylove:

The Civvie Transport shield is one of the big advantages of the Pelican. Why would you rather want a weaker shield?

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for those who missed it: the moral of it all is ----> traders with teeth are fun for pirates. - within reason.

[farmerman]

The Civvie Transport shield is one of the big advantages of the Pelican. Why would you rather want a weaker shield?

Only a weaker shield if all the other awesome 4.84 stuff was added back: the increased agility, 200 thrust, and tons of power (didn't it have more power and power regen then, too?) to keep shooting those 7 forward guns.

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Faction info links: Samura Heavy Industries : LWB : Watchers