Capital Ship Point Defense

[mjolnir]

however, flak are only for battleships and so far are laughable at best unless the guy is practically kissing the hull. anti fighter guns cant kill caps for anything, but they also cant kill the very things they are meant to specailise in. this is a problem. its the equivilent of a class10 sheildbuster doing 200 dmg to sheilds, its just too underpowered. currently our "anti fighter" guns have a smaller effective range than the supernova and nova can fire, which is a problem.

Fighter is NOT a bomber.

Solaris and flaks make it downright impossible for any (up to some 6-7 I guess) number of fighters to even down BS shield.

How they do against bombers is another matter.

What I'm really tired off is people telling how things suck and don't work when either:

a) they didn't try them at all, just look on the numbers and tell they suck. "I know they suck so I'm not mounting them"
b) tried them in beta 1 and never after that

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Now for the "useless" BS defenses. You have a choice

1. Mount secondaries and have about same defense against bombers and fighters as in 4.84, while having twice the hull and bats/bots. => you can do well even alone against basically anything

2. Mount solaris/flaks and you are invincible to fighters and close to invincible to bombers if you have escorts

It's your pick.


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@ Camtheman here we go again.... did you actually try Cruiser solaris with 900 damage, 800 range and 1600 m/s or you "have heard" or "know they suck" ?

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