Missile boats

[Jihadjoe]

Zapp, get in a gunboat and how about you to take on a fully-loaded bomber:P. I, being mainly a gunboat pilot, don't think its really sportly for a bomber to be able to destroy a gunboat by itself in five or less hits.

Missile boats are an answer to a question. How to stop the seeminly infinte xeno and hacker bomber fleets? Two words, missile boat. But that said I do think that having a full load out of missiles is a little extreme. Those kind of loadouts should only be deployed with in the presence of a fleet and should not be out on patrol by them selves. Also I think that we should make missiles finte to make them a little vunerable by them selves. But if this were to happen, the missile limit on gunboats should be increased.

Ok this is my 1000th post and it feels like a real waste but hey ho.

I own a Rogue GB it has no missiles. There are only a few bomber pilots that could solo a GB. Infact I have fought off 2 (count them... 2) bombers with it once.

I think thats its perfectly sporting to have bombers able to kill gunboats on their own if the bomber is well piloted... and frankly it takes a good bomber pilot to solo an average GB.

I think the only way to rememdy this is to make it so that cap ship missiles use ammo (not expensive but just so they can't fire them constantly). This would level the playing field rather well, and discourage the use of full missle loadouts.

I disagree that the ammo limit should be raised.

It takes less skill to fire weapons that home in on the target than it does to fire weapons that go in a straight line.

Frankly its not too hard to learn how to aim and hit fighters with GB guns, making thjem pretty effective and not nearly so demoralising for the fighter pilots. It creates better RP chances (as fights and RP before fights lasts longer) and is more fun for everyone involved.

What fun is there in knowing that you can pwn three fighters without breaking a sweat. I like fights to be hard, difficult and exciting, flying a missile boat simply can't be that exciting (and infact its not. I tried it out on a private server a while back). So yeh... there we go... thats my veiw. (and my 1000th post, fairly ironic that it puts my forum rank as 'Gunboat Captain' eh?)

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