New Fleeing Rules

[Xanthian]

It's a game, yes. This however, is not about solo gameplay, it's about gunboats as a class fighting against fighters as a class.

This new development FORCES gunboats as a class to have a fighter escort if it is to ever have a chance at actually killing another fighter - at which point, what point is there in having a gunboat when there's a fighter there already? Also, in fighter vs fighter+gunboat engagements, the gunboat is often hard pressed to keep up with the fight, as it involves the fighters getting ever further out of gunboat gun range (and often the risk of friendly fire for missiles is too great, if the fighter isn't flying too spasticly for the missiles to hit in the first place).

I just don't like that they've made an entire class of ship completely obsolete. Running is fine, but running shouldn't be so easy, especially if you're running from a ship designed to counter fighters.

I do not see this making GB's obsolete. I see this as changing Gunboats to what they where supposed to be. A forced to feared with-in a patrol. Something to give weight behind fighters. To give a small group of ships (a few fighters/bombers+BG) the Ability to take on larger craft.

To deter (I did not say KILL because they can not disengage) fighters/bombers from preforming a specific action at a specific time.

You said LN.. your purpose is to protect.. not to kill. Killing comes when there are no other options.
Your Gunboat making a fighter flee, surves that purpose. (unless we are talking a military action against a force you are at war with, in this case making them flee or killing them still serves the purpose, you won the engagement)

I do not see what your issue is execpt with the fact you do not get your name in lights with a kill message.

Making them flee means you won the engagement.. just that you did not have to kill them to do it.