Battleships and Tradelanes

[Yngen]

I personally think you are a bit biased since you're KNF. Maybe I'm wrong, just an opinion.

Well, the easiest way to discredit an argument is to discredit the arguer, which is what just happened. However for those of you actually interested in focusing on the argument: I left the compensating factor vague in an effort to spark brain storming for a solution, not as a reason to shoot it down before possibilities are aired. I honestly didn't have any particular ideas about what an appropriate compensating factor would be. The only other example I could think of besides the Kusari BS was the old Corsair Dreadnaught, which was notoriously difficult to put in a tradelane, but had some serious armor on the other hand. You might look at the Zoner Dread too, I'm sure it's difficult to use a tradelane with, but since its a Zoner ship it doesn't really belong in core worlds anyways. Since the 'Sair Dread is defunct I was left with the only other option-which happens to be the flagship for a faction that I participate in. The Kusari BS is not a borderworld BS, its a core world BS, where there are lots of tradelanes for its enemies to use.

In my experience playing FL when a clan is trying to defend a core system they concentrated all their cap ships in one area to maximise their defensive capabilities. The only ships they sent round the system were fighters as scouts. So Trade lanes dont have never really mattered at all in battles involving cap ships. And even then most people dont expect to get a BS anywhere quickly because most have no hope of using trade lanes.

That is one tactic, no doubt valid, but not the only tactic that can be used.

Someone flying a Liberty Dread is simply more mobile than someone flying a Kusari, regardless of what tactics they use. This might explain the tendancy to fly the Lib Dread instead of a more RP-appropriate BS, like HF using the Lib Dread instead of the Hacker spyglass. The Lib Dread is simply a more practical ship to use, and the only compensating factor the Spyglass has over it is an extra 50k armor. Even with that, how many Spyglasses are there on the server? 2 would be my guess, if Doom hasn't sold his.

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[AU]Anton_Blix
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