Balance

[caylith]

You make good arguements and you have good points. Contradicting points but good ones nonetheless...

Now, i'm sure you've read my posts about the missiles and such. Are you grouping me in with the ones moaning, complaining and insulting in system chat? I hope not since I haven't done that. A single fighter shouldn't be able to hurt a battleship...that's only common sense.

Now a fighter should have a good fight against a gunboat...to at least be able to take the shield down (right now that doesn't even happen) It should be extremely hard to kill the GB and, if victorious, the victory would be that much sweeter for the fighter pilot. I do think that a wing of fighters whould have some chance..but no chance against the KNF missile gunboats.

I only have fighters, that's all I fly, they're what I enjoy flying. I can't go anywhere in game these days without encountering capital ships. Shall I stop playing, as you say the fighters should...until it's fixed? It will not be fixed, players are still going to use the biggest and baddest ships they can get their hands on.

When the GoR and Phantoms go 'hunting' (the 2 characters I use most) we bring a well rounded battlegroup in. Not a fleet of capital ships! And I am, as always, the fighter support. I can't go in any longer to these fights since there are no targets for me to fight...no fighters to take down. And I can't do anything to the missile boats either. That is ALL there is lately. When I don't last long enough to launch the first countermeasure when coming out of cruise....that sucks big time. I don't have enough CM's to last the first couple of volleys coming from your gunboat pilots.

I'm not saying to get rid of them by any means. What I am saying is that it's not fun being blown up, repeatedly and then being called names in system chat and hearing "Phantoms suck! We killed a Phantom!" Nor do I like hearing "You're a coward, Phantom! You don't want to fight us cause you're a chickenSh*t Phantom!" No, i'm a lone raven claw and i'm trying to make it to a base to do missions (cause that's all I can do anymore) and I have 4 people flying capital ships in the system wanting me to fight them for their sole purpose of bragging rights.

There are others out there like me, who only fly fighters and are sad that we can't do anything. We've talked about it, it sucks.