Lets improve the gameplay between the Hessians and the Corsairs

[Knjaz]

Vito makes an interesting point; I saw a similar situation the other day.

Rheinlanders were camping out the New York gate in Texas; a fleet consisting of four battleships, 5/6 cruisers and a couple of gunboats.

Liberty had amassed a fleet of 4/5 Noughts/BC/SC, and were waiting to go on through. One LABC goes through and gets instakilled by the cruisers and battleships, without a word, the justification being "This is a time of war."

This led to the rest of the Liberty fleet logging off and going elsewhere, because they decided that taking snubs was pointless; viewing the fight, I saw why. 3/4 cruisers ganking lone fighters.

They decided there was no point joining lost fights, because it isn't possible to have fun. The same applies here. If given the choice between a pointless, lost fight and some balanced ones elsewhere, I might as well jut switch character and ignore them.

I guess the problem is largely with the mindset of a player. If .FACE wouldn't be joining/starting already lost fights, it wouldn't even log in into game. There were less instances then fingers on my both hands when it managed to return to Kappa after long raid. And no instances, when it returned to Kappa without losses. Basicaly, we were getting horrendously annihilated each time we ramming into Outcast/Corsair (and once - SCRA) nova bomber swarm. So what?

Corsairs have so much tactical possibilities to counter those Crete-camping raids it isn't even funny.
EDIT: But I do agree that a stationary Battleship in Alpha and Gamma is a must.
Just, when you put it, move O91 a bit away. It won't be needed to stay that close anymore.

As for the RNC/LNS - I've been there. Many times. only in <strike>few</strike> one instance I've seen LNS smart enough to come through California/Penn jumpholes. And those were only snubs, caps were waiting behind the JGs. I mean, how edit:unwise one should be to not to use such obvious strategic/tactical opportunities he has and try to break through the sealed gates instead. Especially with those JHs being located in deep asteroid fields, with no way turtles moving out of the gates to camp those as well.:wacko:


The above is an example of a mindset different to "ohnoez they're camping Crete/Jumpgates/put your favourite place here we gonna lose I log off".
One of the reasons I bought myself a Legate. Although, a bit too late, i guess...


EDIT2 : Ah yes, one important thing, bout the tech discussion.

Heavy battleship is a Fleet Support battleship.
Light battleship is a narrowly specialized battleship, usually in the anti-battleship role.

It has to do with the amount and arcs of lvl10 turrets, and the amount and arcs of lvl8 turrets. Light battleships can't be used as a Fleet Support, because they often have only 4 available secondaries, 2 of which are shooting sideways. (because I'm always counting 2 flaks for 360 coverage. you can not not to count em in)

Same goes for Heavy slots. Single mortar, or missile, or cerberus - are nearly useless.
Razor requires to be positioned exactly at the center of the mass, otherwise it's usefulness goes down

(See Valor as an extreme example of a badly positioned Heavy slots that make Glaive to guaranteely miss EK'ing unmaneuving bomber sized targets moving with 200m/s across the screen at 800m distance.)