4.75 Discussion

[Circadian_Lupine]

Any fighter with long range weapons would still cheese fighter-fighter combat.

Enemy squardons come at you abreast 3 or 4 in a row from 2km. You'd be able to kill them all before they got to 600m.  Fire 2 salvo's at each ship and watch the explosions.  Battleships can do the same thing, but it's a freakin battleship I would expect no less. Not to mention anything less than 30 npc fighters have absolutely no chance against you.

The energy on the plasma gun needs to be high, because most people slap nomads on the level 10 slots anyway......

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Well if NPC's don't have the general (artificial) intelligence to dodge when there's 60k worth of bad day coming thier way they deserve what happens =P i do see your point though. Maybe as short as 500m-700m. Only problem is we're trying to simulate bombing runs here, if the range is too close the fighter can only pop off one shot before the mad dash back out to beyond missile range to set up again. The ideal scenario would be for the fighter to set up a strafing run and drop off 3 or 4 shots, completely draining thier energy reserves, then dodge back out while the energy recharges. These guns are going to have to have a slow refire rate and a slow velocity, nerfing the range as well might be going too far.

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