Bad call

[Wesker]

It might just be a warning but the fact that this in-particular is viewed as a bad exploit is really a bad call on behalf of the staff and whatever person reported it.

Warning

As someone who knows caps quite well (and im sure everyone who knows me can confirm that) as well as the people I fly caps with and against normally including @Titan*, @Thunderer, @Jayce, @Gagadug, @Unlucky_Soul, and @"Karl Heinz Wallenstein" which are some of the best if not the best cap players on the server, this "bug" is not one in particular that can be called a harmful exploit. Seriously whoever reported that was probably just butthurt they didn't have a CDer. Every veteran capital ship player including myself has done that with no complaints against them. I seriously think that this shouldn't be viewed as exploiting. If you look at it from a tactical perspective most of the time the bug is used by dreadnoughts. The guy who was sanctioned was flying a valor i.e. a dreadnought. With the recent battleship changes dreads are useless at turret steering and literally cant do anything more than tank an enemy. See here for reference. Dreadnoughts need to resort to using what I'd call the "shotgun" tactic which involves either buttcoaking your enemy, which most people including myself can confirm that cloaks are just straight girl material (unless ur flying a ransy or legate (^: ). Or the other method is using the EK tactic. This is basically the only way to make dreads work effectively in group fights ever since the cerb nerf light and med battleships have always had the upper hand. Now more than ever. It's something no cap pilot I've known has had a problem with in the past, I don't see why it should be an issue now.

[10:33:50 AM] Thunderer: Actually, I don't get why not using your engines would require energy
[10:33:55 AM] Thunderer: Engine kill shuts them down
[10:34:01 AM] Thunderer: Inertia is an entirely natural force


^^ For those of you that look at it from an RP perspective if you "shut down" your cruise engines and drift wouldn't it make sense that you regain your energy anyways? Seems sorta silly too me, anyways I talked with a few of my cap buddies and decided this was a something we should mention. It's not really a harmful exploit, all you need to counter it is a CDer. I hope the admins take a look at this especially.

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