Future of houses at peace.

[Omi]

I think what he meant was that the Chimaera and clones aren't fun ships to fly. Their only redeeming quality is that they're small, all of their other statistics are abysmal. They're slow, made of paper and have terrible power cores.

That isn't what I meant at all. They are very fun to fly, but they are awful to shoot back at. And, like any other HF, the Chimaera and its variants have an extremely respectable power core regen (the only stat that matters - capacity is almost meaningless) of 1200.

Sand_Spider has it right, but he doesn't quite nail the problem on the head - good players can still hit each other. This is a problem that affects snub/fighter PvP as a whole (obviously), but the tiny size of Kusari HFs makes it much worse. Not only does pure fighter PvP in Kusari have a higher skill floor for effectiveness than any other house, but bombers are near-extinct due to the difficulty in defending oneself from Chimaera-and-clones attacking you. The Lynx, Guardian, Templar and Wraith are all relatively on the same level when it comes to landing a SNAC (or at least threatening to), but someone in a Kusari HF will never ever eat a SNAC if they keep their wits about them.

In short, this leads to the House's PvP activity revolving almost entirely around the same set of small, high-skill-floor snubs. Flying a Sabre or Raijin into Kusari groupfights is a death sentence if you meet a competent force of Chimaeras or similar in response, particularly if they are using Sunfrenzies/Daitos.

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