Fighters should be fun...

[Yngen]

1. Yngens numbers are not correct, because each shield bat and nanobot has a regen capacity of 300.

Example1: VHF with 10000 hull and 70 bots, without armour upgrade.

70 bots x 300 = 21000 capacity. Gives a bit more than double the hull regen.

Example2: VHF with 10000 hull and 70 bots, with armour upgrade 25000 hull.
The whole bot capacity will be lower than to regenerate the hull one time fully.

I'm also convinced, the armour upgrades don't work as they should.

Nevertheless, the fights are quite long and will be, because many players will just evade enemy fire, til their shields are backed up automatically.

Respectful
AoM

Original post corrected, thank you.

Well maybe reducing nanobot counts isn't the solution. However I'm getting the general impression from everyone here that fighter battles are taking too long. A lot of you haven't been in this community very long so you don't have the benefit of reflecting on how this place has progressed. Fighter battles on the whole are getting lengthier over time because the overall skill level of all the members is increasing. Compared with one year ago there are maaaany more skilled pilots here. So rather than a marathon dog fight being a rare event its now becoming common place.

And I dislike the notion of telling someone they should just deal with the length of a battle and retreat when they run out of time. I'd rather my retreats be for a role playing reason. This mod is in danger of becoming inconvenient. Our server already requires extra time spent on the forums aside from playing in game, why make playing the game that much longer?

@ Spear:

"A) You are evenly matched.
B) One or both of you are laggy.
C) You took the wrong load-out to the wrong battle.
D) One of the players is simply dodging and not actually trying to fight, a player who does this properly can survive almost indefinatley and is annoying as hell (I dodge and evade when I am outnumbered badly but I still try to work an attack angle to strike my weakest opponent). "

a) yes, and its happening quite often lately
b) occasionally, but on the whole not true
c) Beautiful, except the RP-police tell me I can have only one loadout. Had I the choice of all the weapons in the game my fights would probably be much shorter
d)Absolutely right, and whats more that person who is flying around evading is playing the carrot on the stick while his buddies are shooting up my tail pipe...oh and they are feeding more nanos and bats to him as I shave his hull away slowly.

Maybe we do need a rule against nano trading during a fight?

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