Missile boats

[Dantrithor]

Beeing a choice umpopular does not mean nobody should do it. As far as i know, that is the only ship of it's kind in liberty... or among the houses. The damage on your weapons could have been done by one/two extra missiles at a time that could have hit your hull, or if you did close passes while i was shooting at someone / beeing cd'ed, as i kept unshielding someone (don't really know who) who did front close-up passes, almost ramming. (and i mean almost, not hitting) was that one you? And, as i wrote in another place, my strategy is swith targets pretty fast, using the arrows around the screen, so sometimes i could fire one group to someone unshielded before noticing it actually has no shields (nobody's perfect). And class 8/9' weapons do not last a lot to missiles.

In that moment, i had two choices: grab my lone fighter (also with missiles. Yeah, i'm a missile whore, i fly at 7 fps and even when im flying at 16 i can't aim guns, bleh) and fight 4+1 ships (insta-death) or take that thing and try to solve the situation in other ways.

Well, anyway, thanks to this ship, HF decided to park battleships around new york a month ago, and by what i saw yesterday, they actually use them (two battleships and one battlecruiser right on top of manhattan). So well, this little thing has many friends willing to destroy it. Who will be the first to manage it? *wink wink*

PS: It's not shooting to kill when, after i do a full-volley (unshield, in certain cases one missile hitting hull), i switch to next shielded target, instead of fast switch back to hit full hull, which means nothing in three passes. See what happened to black mamba, he was fully shielded when i focused on him after last warning, and in 3 joustings he did, he was a toast. And yes, i knew it was unfair, which is why i didn't want to engage at first chance till i was fired upon (and i waited till i had a nice dent on the shield, as you could see on the screenshot), and tried to not to kill anyone to see if you would retreat instead of just fighting to death, or till you hit the imaginary eject buttom i usually disregard on capital ships.

And do not worry, i know you didn't want to flame me specifically or anything. I just feel i should post my point of view of the situation when i'm referred, even not with my name but for my actions, to explain motivations and what i saw. Everything has more than one point of view, after all. I just thought someone issued the order to engage, seeing that a lone fighter of a group engaging a gunboat of any class is a suicide, and that you were moving towards me at that point (might have been your random movements interpreted as hostile by me in that situation though).

Eddie had that configuration because at that moment, i thought it was... crap. Plain and simple. I first used it beeing grouped with captainpoo & other "drunk-arrr" pirates around california, and tried it on them, doing zero damage. Tried on transports, did zero damage, but nice "fireworks". Liked it, then i saw that it actually worked against those bombers, and thoguht "well, it works, i can do as in my fighter with eddie, run from the big things!". The las vegas motivation is different, as it's the only extreme anti-fighter thing you'll find around. Like that AEGIS ship someone mentioned as possible implementation, but with current resources and limitations.


EDIT: Yes, i finished editing this, if someone has read it when it was three paragraphs, and now is shocked about it having 7..

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