Fighters should be fun...

[mjolnir]

Yes, nukes are instant killers for vanilla ships, i agree.
But, they are much easier to dodge then cannonballs.
At least for me. Especially if you have a CD. Mines are not the problem then.

I was reffering to some people (Yngen and you...) saying that flying VHFs is the safest thing... it's not when you are in a Vanilla ship.... I had roughly 80+ fighter fights in vanilla VHFs.... out of those I died about 10 times... now out of those 10 times..3 times was a sunslayer, rest (some 7 times) Nukes.. never to guns... ... yes I dodged some crazy ammount of nukes/sunslayers...but the very few that did hit certainly did their job.


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So the 3 simple options that are here so far

1) Decrease armor

2) Increase damage

3) Increase weapon speed

not so simple ones would include removal/adding of wireframes

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I would prefer decreasing armor on non-vanilla ships (including bombers).. and leaving it on same level on vanilla ones .... Cannonball+Sidewinder on my Sabre make for nice short fights against vanilla ships

What will happen if the changes are made?

My look on it if I try to be non-biased.

1+2) Fighters would become even less used... because not so good pilots would die all the time => they will buy a GB instead....(already now the GB spamming is becoming quite widespread)

3) no big change from now... but less skilled pilots (pilots with worse aim) would aim better..... so overall fight length might even increase... as the pilots with better aim would need to dodge/evade more to survive.

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Any big change like this would need proper testing with huge ammount of players on different skill levels involved....

Question is: Is it such a big problem with long fights now?

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