PETITION: Nerf NPCs

[mjolnir]

I'm raped by battleship patrols I can't even see from 3.500 away.

The only weapon that has that range is the BS missiles. So watch out for the missile warning and you'r fine.

Missions are outrageously dangerous since everything can shoot left, right, upside down, and do barrel rolls. When they take damage that would destroy a VIII fighter, they simply lose half their hull and nanobot back to full.

NPCs have exactly same firing arcs as you, and roughly same armor as fighter with mk8 armor (+-30% depending on their level)

Cruisers and Gunboat patrols can shoot backwards with their forward guns if I'm not mistaken

No they can't, again they have exactly same firing arcs as your player ships.

I'm interrupted every single lane atleast once on my smuggler. Every lane. Every time. Sometimes twice.

This is not possible.

The Nomads are scary, being super accurate and having Assassins now.

The assasins spawn only at some location in north of Delta and in nomad "guard" systems afaik. To try them out I lately took BHG dessie alone into Iota with 60 people on server. Only place I couldn't survive was next to Altair with Scorpion gb patrols and station guns. Even in front of the nomad city the 2 bomber + 2 assasins patrols weren't able to hit my hull before dying.

The Wilde
are nightmares, since they could rape a fully armed gunboat in their fighters BEFORE 4.85.

Wilde are weaker in 4.85 than in 4.84, most notably their armor got dropped some from some 8 times.

Nerf them a little, but keep them tough. I still want to forced to run from Battleship patrols in my Gunship. But I want to be able to take on Cruiser/GB patrols with great patience and skill.

Taking Cruiser patrols with GB is rather hard unless you have pulse guns and razors. But a lone bomber with Nova + SN can kill them easily, same with anti-cap armed cruiser.

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