(12-01-2024, 12:45 AM)TheSauron Wrote: Unless you're assuming a fringe case where the newbies are all playing Freelancer for the first time, this outcome is genuinely impossible. Any players putting in a genuine effort will just grind the ace down with missiles alone, not even accounting for what gun damage they'd be able to put in as well. If you're so helpless that you cannot kill a single dude with ten missile launchers supported by twenty guns, then there's nothing balance can do for you.
You're arguing things on the basis of a scenario that is simply not a thing anymore.
The specific case I'm talking about is a Partisan coalition LF in O-41. I don't recall a single missile landing, neither the light missiles or the guys with firestalkers and sidewinders. Half of the time when I fired mine, he'd quickly wiggle up and down and they'd lose tracking from 2 or 300m and fly off into the distance. I don't think anyone hit guns, his shield was off maybe twice in the whole engagement. I hit his shield a few times myself but that was it. I'm not sure if he took hull damage because I died third.
