' Wrote:I'm a Freelancer. Unfortunately, a death message is what drives part of Freelancer/Mercenary combat. No death message, no payment. We can't pirate for cash, and we can't levy fines for contraband either. On my Xeno, I could care less about killing someone or not. Hell, making them run away is always a plus for me, since I don't have to fight them and I can focus on more pressing matters.
But.. Freelancers, 'ya know? We don't get paid for dock messages. We may be after the dreaded "blue message," if you will, but that doesn't give you the right to ruin a person's attempt at some fun by bringing in pretty much anything and everything against that one single person. Last I checked, you can't kill a destroyer in a fighter on your own (Most cases. There are a few rare exceptions, as is in many things). So why would you even consider bring that, and multiple fighters to drive off one person? It's just plain over-kill, if you ask me.
It is, isn't it? It is however valid overkill in the sense that you come to us, near one of our most frequently used bases, with the intent of harvesting blue messages. I bet you are in a Sabre too, which are very hard to hit in a snub ball. There is always the option to run away once we field caps - they rarely start shooting without a warning.
IMG is not a faction made up out of elite fighters. Most of our members are rookies when it comes to pewage, so meeting you with less skill, and inferior craft (face it, Sabres are overpowered at present. Nerf pending for 4.86) would result in an unbalanced fight as well. Our solution? Deploy heavies that mow the lawn if unfriendlies don't go away. Don't like it? Don't come shoot us near our mining grounds. They generally have heavy cover. You bring the fight to us, expect us to hit back hard.
IMG isn't a "blue message happy" faction, but for us to do what we do best, we can't have unfriendlies about. Mining ships are weak against fighters. Very weak. Even the Dacite. I know, because I try with that thing.
Quote:I don't mind facing a few of you guys at once; really, I'm asking for it when I engage the IMG or CR, since you folks are so active. But could you maybe tone it down a notch and not break out the cap ships when a few fighters can do the job just as well..?
If our fighters could do the job just as well, we probably would. Unfortunately, at present... not the case. Both, as stated before, due to lack of skill and proper material. IMG|'s job for it's members is securing the mining grounds and convoys by any means neccesary. Sometimes that means deploying a Solaris heavy zeph or a gunboat or two to shoo away a single, laggy fighter that otherwise takes hours to destroy. Why the overkill? Because that single fighter typically has the capability to take out a Hege or small miner, before we can take it out with fighters alone.
I'm not ashamed of using a steamroller to squash a fly that won't get out of it's path. Better that then get stung.
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From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
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