(06-28-2015, 10:45 AM)Protégé Wrote: I believe to make factions like BHG thrive, we'd need to nerf transports, or at least make piracy with a VHF easier. Then BHG and other merc factions could thrive on escort contracts.
Transports aren't the issue. And no, a single fighter designed to kill small ships should not be able to kill a transport like a walk in the park. It's fine how it is. Besides, if you make fighters able to kill transports a lot easier then the result is quite simple. Escorts won't be able to kill the fighter before it kills the transport. I can already give no craps and do that in a bomber, I don't need to be able to do that in a fighter and neither does anyone else.
The problem is it's a faction that relies solely on killing. Meanwhile we have things like station hugging and quick docking not to mention how hard it is to hit somebody that actually knows how to run away. Whenever I would bounty hunt, if they were not as skilled or more skilled, most people would simply run/pull those station hugging routines. It gets old pretty quick.
