Transports

[El Nino]

Well as a player who has repetadly used transport in combat, i can give you some options...

Parchenon, 5 forward firing turrets... tiny as a gunship, and hitts about half as good as one. Excellent to turn and kicks any vhf in to the ground. I got some bombers with it, one kusari gunboat, and many trains, tankers and such... whilest serving in QCP. The only problem was the time it took to take down another freighter. I would always win, as the other trader wouldn't even think of fighting back.

Lux Liner... Let's not even start with this one. If a pirate is unskilled at fighting big craft and he proceedes to take you as a mere trader and not the Spa and Cruise Gun'ho master that you are, he's soon space dust.

Especially the smaller transports have an edge over fighters due to their enormous shields.

Firefly, 8 turrets, 4 in all directions... pirates in fighters no problem, just joust them. You turn almost as good as a bomber, so taking them down shouldn't be a problem. Hitting them is easy due to your mk4 turret 1222ms speed. Also the 1099 range doesn't hurt.

The sad thing is, there is only one viable weapon for transports. The mk4 turrets, so there really isn't anything to costumize on your ship. The only turret that can match the mark4 is corsair lvl 5 Salamanca turret. That you can only use if you are a corsair to begin with... and even then it has little better output but far worse speed and range.

There should be a veriety of transport turrets. Atleast for each house their own. The existing line should remain but mk4 version should have veriety. Such as Kusari transport turret, with perhaps better speed and efficiency. Rheinland slower more damage, Liberty should be the base... Bretonian with some tachyon effects in to it...

There should be options, options, options. And then some options.

Like this topic suggests the only diffrence between ships is cargo capacity, and turret number. Wich is alright, but has the added effect of every transport fight looking the same. And extremely predictable.

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