Quickdocking, boon or bane?

[Diomedes]

In terms of base defenses, they need to be able to hit a raiding bomber first of all. Most of the automated defenses in the game can be fooled by standing still and strafing left-right, let alone boxing and evading. I'm not sure if improving this is possible however, except for making the bases shoot more or less steady death streams that only need to hit a couple times. Currently, if you're paying attention you could fly around outside Manhattan with a Rogue ID'd Starflea and the bases/NPCs would never kill you unless you sat still. And I'm including the cap patrols.

The problem then with current defenses, becomes the same as escorts. Vessel gets stuck in docking queue. Bomber swarm which should, inRP, be engaged by defending snubcraft and wiped from space by defensive cannons proceed to dodge/snac until docking vessel is dead, taking no damage themselves.

On top of this, most base defenses do hardly any damage. Anything with a class 10 fighter shield won't blink at a handful of hits and freighter shields can ignore many bases. Stationary battleships tend to be better in terms of damage.

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