' Wrote:While I agree that the screening ship idea is what discovery lacks, let me reply to couple point of yours Ashes.
1. They are not close to being a battleship. If you can fly, only thing you can really challenge with battleship is another battleship. Decent cruiser pilots and lower can wipe floor with battleships. I believe there is a reason for BS to cost so many much times more then the fighter or bomber. I do not want ultimate pwn ship in the game. For that, adding thruster is sufficient to battleship and voila. I am more reffering to ability to battleship to defend itself.
2. As I stated, you cannot get always a screen of ships to fly with you. Even after that, it only attracts bigger bomber spam. Ive witnessed it lots of times in Taus, Ransuer with Storta / tridente cover just dies as well, since we focus down the smaller ones an then snipe big from distane. BAttleship itself is zero usefulness in such engagement.
3. Bomber tear the crap out of anything. And frankly, given their size, hull and prize, they should be the sort of ultimate ship. Not the bombers. They are pwn enough with SNAC already. Swarm of bomber is one thing, but two bombers slaughtering cap 8 battleship, thats different story That should not happen at all. But eh, it happens always.
4. Would be neat and give cruisers a purpose. Or give battleships better AA armament. If we keep reffering to older ones, they had such guns too. They could hit bombers from distance where bombers couldnt. Now its turned around. No matter how much and big guns you can fit on battleship, with only single player to operate it, it does not matter if you got some tactical sense and dont fly straight.
I agree on some points, but really battleships are second most useless class of ship on the server. If people hate them so much and nerf them even more, what is the point of having them? To RP? What RP is that? Imma go shoot you?
I have seen several caps RPing (Seth onboard LN dread, or LSC Fires of Liberation), but presence of such ship only attracts bomber spam. And really, no matter how big escort you get, equally big bomber squadron tears you apart.
Hell my cap 8 Zephyr lost battle to group of sabres. And it had full solaris. Now that aint a balance. To refer to your point 3 - anything can tear up lone battleship. And seeing fighters do it, it is sad.
All I'm saying is, if you make Battleships too good, then the only way to kill a Battleship is with another Battleship. Then we might as well remove every other ship in the game and start everyone of with a Starflier equivilant of a Battleship.
Would you be happy then? Probably. But some of us like our snubcraft.
Currently you have to be good with a Battleship to get any where. I remember the time the LNS-AWESOME took out half the LN fleet by it's self. In otherwords, problem exists between chair and keyboard.
' Wrote:But mounting 4+ shieldbusting bomber guns mean you only need to get caught in the blast once to lose shields.
Shows how much research you put into your argument. Takes 3 or 4 shots to drop a fighter shield.
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