Transports

[atm999]

I have to comment this. As i did a fair bit of Transprot pwning, Even downed a gunboat once with a bloody parchenon:D.

Bumblebee might be actually very good, i flew Parchenon and Ku transport, in to battle as a part of Privateers and as Hogosha. You would be amazed how an agile ship can kill bombers, you just joust them, dodge their SN and they die so fast you have to scrape them off asteroids. Turret speed is your friend. Just joust and most players will be overwhelmed, especialy in tiny transports (regular small transport being the perfect example of extreme speed) with good shields a VHF will be very very very hard pressed. Now it is worth noting you cannot do that in an advanced train, or luxury liner. But say firefly? BW transport, Pirate transport? All can fight with the best of them. Gunboat thou. that's a No-No, if he/she even remoteley knows what they are doing you are asking for a beating. (Even with a luxury linner, for gods sake GB's can kill BC's you don't want to fight them, just flee it isn't that hard.)

I would like to see mines on the transports. 2 mounts attleast. So you can issue some hurt.

To give a little 4.85 spoiler, small transports were made nearly invulnerable to SN fire alone, and all 4 transport turrets are now useful. Also with fighter turrets reworked you have so many options you can just :yahoo:. One thing yet to consider are Mines. Torpedos are something really best not used on transports. (They would first be placed on gunboats if anywhere)

I disagree about the Firefly being agile, I timed it and it takes 13.2 second to do a full revolution. Even the mammoth can do that in 7. (Obviously the adv. train is much slower, as it should be. I think that to reasonably defend against a bomber, you need to be able to to a 360 in 10 seconds max, 8 or under is better. Hopefully 10 should not be too much to ask for in 4.85. Once, just for fun, I tried to kill a train with a Starflyer, and I succeeded. That just shouldn't be able to happen (I stayed behind the guy and shot at him, granted he had equipped a regular freighter shield, not class 7 transport shield.)

I fully agree with you about the mines and torpedoes, transports should make things not want to follow them, they don't need to attack capital ships. Please, just let me use all 8 (or at least 6) of my Firefly turrets to shoot forward!