Capital Ship Point Defense

[Jinx]

"What i see here is just people who had a bad day and blame the weapons."

it would be very sad if that is all you can see. - its quite discouraging for someone that is trying to find a balance when you express that all that person is trying to do it to find a cheap way to win a fight that is in the first place already balanced.

that makes the revision process a process of bias and cheating.



here is a short experience i had today...:

i was flying a civi bomber with 15 nova shots left, no bats, no bots - cause i had a pvp vs. a crusader ( or somethign fishlike anyway ) before.

i encountered a rogue destroyer.

in a most ooRP manner, i decided to attack it, cause from the previous encounter - most of my weapons were heavily damaged anyway - and i wanted to go down in a fight rather than repair them for millions.

so i attacked - i stared firing the novas at 1.5k while the destroyer tried to close the distance. - once i started to half heartedly dodge and fly circles, he did not hit anything critical at all anymore - i could dictate the combat. - i can increase the distance if i like - i can close up to. - i didn t even have to switch my brain on to fire my novas - yet... half of them hit automaticly.

in the mid of the fight - i went linkdead - and was blown up. all the time that i had control, evading weaponfire was no problem at all... firing the novas required no skill at all.

of course - during the whole fight - some things were clear from the very beginning...

- the destroyer had no chance hitting an activly moving target, cause he hadd only primaries
- i had no chance killing it, cause i only had the nova and 15 shots left

so yes - when the destroyer have had faster guns, it might have been different. - it might also have been different if i have had all my weapons and a supernova instead of only a nova.

was the capital ship pilot unskilled? - i don t think so, he tried to aim, he tried to spray, he tried to close up - and he tried to dodge / evade the torpedos. - is the civi bomber an easy target? - dunno, but it feels fairly agile

oh - and i have spent quite some time with the weapons already. - i even made the suggestions for the base concept - but a live situtation on a real server beats any theory and any closed beta server.

but all that means nothing when you re convinced that those that speak up for the capital ships weapons only want to win... .

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