Missiles everywhere!

[Jinx]

well - alright, i gotto admit, i had .... let me try to remember......... zero pvps with "jinx" in the last 5 months.

but i have been fighting opponents with missiles and sunslayer as a BHG. - and when all my equipment got ripped apart - it wasn t the opponents fault to mount and use the sunslayer and cannonballs + paralyzer... it was my fault that i wasn t flexible enough to do anything but joust.

i had ( some time ago ) a fight on Clover against a BAF challenger. - i had 4 debs and 1 firestalker + 1 cannonball mounted ( a standard loadout for me sort of ) ..... i easily drained the slow fighters shields... but had no chance hitting him, cause he started to dodge.

now, i agree - the bad part is.... if i had forced to fight it to the end, this fight would have lasted for a long long time, cause he could have dodged leaving little time to use hte missiles ( my only way to damage his hull ... and i was in a chimera at that time ) .... i easily outturned him, but firing the missiles into his back was a waste of ammo..

so after about 10 min and a few unlucky shots - i simply retreated. - no point fighting such a battle to the end... and a fight were no one dies is still not a lost fight.




i DO think that the use of any weapons loadouts - no matter how extreme it might be ( like 6 cannonballs as a support ship or whatever strange things you may see ) is OK. - in certain situations it may be annoying or even vexing to fight such an opponent - but then.... i d say, this person has just had the good fortune to come with a very efficient loadout.

i would never dream of yelling at a player that used all missiles ( even if i wasn t doing the same thing anyway ) --- but then, i do retreat quite quickly, too - and i hardly ever let a battle last longer than 20 minutes.

the question is - where does it end. - personally, i have a much greater problem with bombers mounting 4 heavy codenames or 4 coladas. ( problem in terms of.... it causes me problems in a fight )



edit:

@Dab: would it be OK then to use 6 missiles in 4.85 - where all ships are equally vulnerable? or to use 6 missiles in a vanilla fighter vs. a non vanilla fighter - is that OK?

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