Capital Ship Point Defense

[mjolnir]

At this point, any large cruiser or battlecruiser can be solo'd by a bomber who knows how to stay further than 1k away and uses a supernova + nova torp setup.

Then the cruiser captain sucks and the bomber pilot doesn't. There's no counter to useless pilots.

BC has a bit harder time yes, but still it's extremely hard to solo if the captain is not an idiot.

Yea, I think 90% of this problem was caused by giving NPC capships 'special' cap weapons. I was flying through alaska on my carrier the other day, got spammed with disruptors till I dropped out of cruise, and a liberty navy cap patrol (battleship + 2 cruisers + 2 fighters) dropped my shields before I could blink, and proceeded to shove spammed heavy mortars up my tailpipe. I barely got away, and I've got a 3.0 armor upgrade and thrusters.

There are serious problems with making npcs 'as good as players', it was a bad idea that never should have gone through in the first place.

The whole point is that they have same guns as players not "special" ones. They have no heavy mortars, just primaries, pulse guns, razors and missiles. Which they fire at about same rate as players. If you are in a small ship you can dodge then, if you are in a big ship (BS) you can basically 1-2 kill them. If you are in a ship that is designed for supporting others and fly alone in hostile system that should be one of the most protected in sirius you have a problem yes.

Maybe finally realize that flying a carrier alone trough an enemy (almost) guard system is the bad idea... before screaming about NPCs?
Cause yes it's the same as parking it in front of Manhattan and arguing that those bloody NPC battleships there kill you.

Agreed, at least your necrosis isnt as big as the order carrier =P My ship is as easy to hit with supernovas as an osiris (slightly easier, actually) with half the shielding and armor - on top of the fact that I get no 1600m/s razors, flak cannons, or decent primaries.

From now on I'll simply ignore "your" carrier in this thread. You posted an own thread about it so you can write there. You also summed up there what it can and can't do right now. And it does exactly what was intended.
It is NOT meant a as BS or BC substitute but as a support ship. You completely ignore that, fly it alone as battleship and start thread after thread about how "capital ship defense sucks".

It's a bit like buying a Fafnir or Barghest and flying it alone vs GBs dying in every fight, then starting a thread about how "bombers really suck vs GBs".

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