A Bit Of A...Shift...

[mjolnir]

Well it's not really impossible to escape from a fighter in a Transport....

I pirate in a bomber... now I fought a Container transport with good turrets and 100k shield.

So what I have to do:

1. Keep CDing him when tries to cruise
2. Wait ages for the Supernova to recharge while keeping his shields down... means you have to shoot him in the meantime
3. Evade fire from his turrets
4. Keep RP asking him about money/cargo.

Is this easy? I don't really think so. Especially when I'm so nice to offer him more chances to pay.

Out of some 15 attempts - 2 transports escaped me.... both times it was in S13 and they simply managed to fly to the nearest explosive cloud, before I took them.

Now this was in the most agile bomber in the game.... that is going to be nerfed soon.

I like this shift... and if it was my choice I would move it even more.
Traders should hire escorts... that will give the Mercs flying around something to do.


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@ Jinx... yes I would really like caps + transports to have much bigger armor and no shields. NPCs don't have them.. it's really strange that players have. It would also make people think twice about taking them out to fight.... stop capship-whoring.

But somehow I feel that all their owners here will start screaming so loud.........

But then add shields to NPC capships as well.

One more thing - Nomad fighters/GB/BS - why do they have shields? That's even more strange.

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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.