' Wrote:So what you're saying is that a swarm of players should be less powerful than a single player who spent over 150,000,000 credits? That's what I gather by your post. The 8-10 fighters should all be swatted pretty easily by a single Cruiser or 2-3 Gunboats, right?
Right now, I think we have very good balance (And if you were here for .84, you'd thinks so too). Fighters are powerful, and are often the deciding factor in fights where the majority of combatants are fighters. Multiple players should mostly always be more powerful than a single player, and in the case of fighters, it's an exponential increase in power. I don't understand how this is bad. 5-6 Gunboats can kill 8-10 fighters pretty well, mostly because that's there intent, but 4-5 Cruisers are definitely not designed to fight those 8-10 fighters. That's why Navies still field fighters. If their capital craft could counter the small craft, then they would just pump out Gunboats, Cruisers, and Battleships instead of building those fighters...
Oh I remember the nightly lolcap raids on Manhattan in .84, my first sighting of BSs was during one of those.
I was in a camara, and blew up seconds later.
Later in .84 I pubicly mocked a admin over system comms over the problem.
The admin logged.
The problem isnt caps killing snubcraft, its that a handfull of fighters can QUICKLY kill a cruiser and take minimal risk to themselves.
Fighters SHOULD be able to evade the larger caps, yes, but they also shouldnt be able to kill them with ease