Discovery 4.83 Beta 1 Release

[Colm Cillian]

ABout the swarm pods, I know they are not being sold anymore, but does that mean we have to sell the ones already equiped?

Even if they get nerfed to ueslessness it would still be nice to keep for esthetics. torpedoes and mines have their uses against the larger ships, but in Fighter vs fighter combat using them (particularly the larger yield ones) is neither cost effective or practicle. Also being primarily in an enforcement role (RM) or escort/bodyguard (colm) and not actively fighting a war haveing a cruise disrupter equiped is a waste of resources as this a defensive/reactive posture and cruise disrupters are primarily and offense weapon.

Their only purose being to slow down a hostile ship has no place in enforcement for two reasons:

1. Even assuming the target is a known pirate vessel giving chase into unpopulated regions would only leave the more important trade lanes and trade centers open for attack. Any pirate or terrorist worthy of his hardware would track the locations of military/police pilots and leave the system or (and this is what i would do) promptly head to the no longer defended location and resume his activties in safety.

2. Against a vessel aware of giving chase cruise dissrupters can be rendered useless by simply killing your engines and drifting after comming to speed. (Granted the current PvP rules would forbid useing a cruise/engine kill as a speed booster in combat, but fleeing and being chase is an obvious and honest attempt to avoid/escape combat not an attempt to gain and edge over your opponent.) Granted this is not a flawless means to escape, but only temporary evasion that works on all but the most persistant persuers, you begin slowing down imeadiatly after cutting your engines and attampts change course with thruster will drop you back to normal speeds, time spent in such a venture would be time away from the defender's post again making void any effectiveness of the defender for policing purposes.

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