Interceptors

[Jinx]

since that is not flood : i d say "no change to "interceptors" in that regard" - because:

- a fighter is not meant to stop a cruiser, - cause that is like a fighter is meant to engage a cruiser - and it was said many times.... that is not the case. capital ships fight capital ships, bombers ought to be capital ship support craft to assist other capital ships. - interceptors and fighters fight other interceptors and fighters and bomber. ( that just points at the example given - if the "role" of an interceptor is to attack and stop a cruiser, then the role of the cruiser is to engage that threat - which means...... justify the attack on a fighter )

- agility / size is unproportionally unbalancing over firepower and armour. a ship that is fast cannot be hit. a ship that cannot be hit can eat away a slower ship.... slowly but certainly. - such a fight might be utterly boring and take hours ( literally ) - but we have our rules in place ... nobody must leave a fight, once engaged... unless wanting to face a 4 hour locational ban.
if an interceptor can evade most attacks while doding, AND is able to catch up with anything + able to stop everything... you can get everything into a combat and simply draw the combat to unbearable length.

- interceptor is but a role given to a ship, which can be achieved by our existing equipment. - so you want a ship that can stop someone else and have an easier time hitting?

+ put a CD on your ship
+ add fast projectile weapons
+ add an enhanced thruster

you want a tank that dishes out well and is more defending?

+ put on a MR on your ship
+ add slow weapons with a heavy punch like missiles
+ add an armoured thruster on your ship or something that has more hitpoints than an enhanced

the differences are not huge - but we can make loadouts defining our ships already

even now we have people claiming they have destroyed VHFs in even an arrow in a 1 vs. 1 ... a situation that should not be extended.



edit: jokes aside - adding a cheap looking pimped up racing skin to a ship with a sleek shape ( without any changes to stats ) makes the ship feel faster indeed. - and people will swear that its more agile and quicker.

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