idea for battleships...

[Jinx]

i agree with chopper - but .... how to you think one can make them "harder to use". since they are fighters. they are allready quite immobile and big.

i don t know if there is a way to alter the way they are piloted other than reducing their agility. there are no alternative steering ways in freelancer. there is no power management ( shields, weapons, thrusters ) turrets view is the very same as the turret view on a fighter.

they are not too easy to fly through an asteroid field anyway - not easy to get into a lane or jumpgate. personally, i don t see a way to make them "more difficult to fly".

unless its hardcoded, i wouldn t mind to :
- increase the time that the shield is reinitiated ( you know when it jumps from zero to around 15% )
- increase the hull

what effect does it have:
- once the shields are down - every shot will do damage - so even fighters will do the job and bombers will have a chance, cause they can score a full bombing run without risking to hit the shields ( absorbing the bomb )
- the battleship will have NO problem hitting another capship while the shields are down, casue the target is just big enough... but while the shields are down - the shaking makes it impossible to hit a bomber / fighter
- to compensate for that, the hull is much stronger so that the battleship is more durable.

thats about all i can think of

@AoM: i admit, i don t care at all for the singleplayer. i know the sp is of vital importance for the mod - but since i do not believe any of those ideas are implemented anyway - it doesn t hurt to make suggestions. if igiss moves into any of those directions, he ll have his own ideas and might use some of the suggestions. he ll find a way to make the singleplayer aswell as the multiplayer part work.

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