marauder,Aug 30 2006, 09:54 AM Wrote:Winning by any means is not the point. That is being unsporting.
If your use loopholes and shortcuts to win you are basically cheating and it's either because you HAVE to win all the time or because you know that in a fight with similar load-outs (which is not using fighter weapons) you'd lose.
The RP should dicate your weapon load-outs. All your corsair characters should only have corsair or civilian ships with corsair weapons on them.
The RM do this, I do this, most other people on the server do.
If your characters alignment means you can't buy weapons from a certain faction and you can't get them by looting, tough.
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RP Wise would still indicate that I could use the Marsflyer weapons & the tizonas, the tizonas are Corsair weaponry, and the Marsfler side turrets are sold with a ship that is sold by the order. If you read infocards on ships like the Osiris, it plainly states that the order and corsairs did *alot* of joint operations together to combat the nomads, including the order helping the Corsairs to produce their own fleet of Osiris battleships. Clearly states an alliance between Corsairs & Order, not to mention the pirates saved the damn universe by forming the Order with government officials.
Anyways that got sort of off-topic.
Marsflyer turrets a Loophole? What?
Marsflyer turrets a shortcut? You spend 40 Million and an hour doing the transfers and ship rebuys and tell me this is a shortcut.. it isn't by any means. Not only did I spend my time to get the money to purchase these weapons, but I took an hour of my time just to make the *PURCHASE*. Hell, even Korrd, an admin uses these weapons on his ship, and he is a Rheinlander.
And quite honestly these weapons don't give me much of an advantage except against fighters, and even then it's not even enough to warrant it because the advantage is purely being able to keep your power up when shooting at the little buggers.
The route of the problem which you "OMG CHEATER!" screamers are overlooking is the fact that the capital ship weaponry is *severely* lacking in the anti fighter department, (unless you use missiles, which are 100% useless in any kind of lag) then you think about a cruiser... cruisers are *designed* to go after capital ships, not fighters... yet their powersupply is so limited it's not even funny. With actual cruiser weaponry a cruiser can't even dream of taking on a battleship, unless it is a Huegenot with an extremely skilled pilot, but even then I doubt they can do it without aid unless the BS pilot is a complete moron or is using default weaponry. Hence why I have 6 tizona turrets mounted on my cruiser. Too much? You think it is unbalanced...??? Two Battleship Inferno cannons can take down a cruisers shields in less time than the 6 tizonas can take down the battleships ships if you can aim the damn things. it's only 5 or 6 shots from the Infernos to take a cruisers shields and just a few more for a battleship. The only difference between the two, is one doesn't take power, which makes it the only weapon a cruiser can equip that is decent for taking down capital ships, half the battle for a cruiser is getting through the enemies shields.
Now, if I was running around in an Osiris, with 8 tizonas and 4 Battle Razors, *THAT* would be a "Win at any cost" loadout. If you people keep screaming that it is unbalanced I'll do a loadout like that and come after you.
