Give missiles to freighters.

[AeternusDoleo]

Freighters are cargo ships.
Missiles are offensive fighter weapons.

Weapon does not fit ship role.

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[Trogdor]

By that logic, why put guns on them at all?

This would make battle transports like the Bison very fun to fly, and it would give single-turret transports an effective defense to put in that turret slot.

Gunboats Completely ruined.

Gunboat balance is a separate issue. I have no idea what the dev team thinks gunboats are supposed to be/do.

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[Coin]

Gunboats Completely ruined.

This. you want a powerful offensive well armoured ship with a small hold?

funboat

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[Barbarossa]

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[nOmnomnOm]

If you ever fought against a freighter then you know how difficult it is already to take down.
Just saying: You dont need more stuff to buff it since its already good as it is.

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[Papa Oomaumau]

This. you want a powerful offensive well armoured ship with a small hold?
-funboat

THAT

On the other hand...
Pirate freighters like the Bactrian often are combat ships, at least dual-role.
So on that note I can see the logic.
For a corporate or civilian freighter to have missile mounts is a little whacky imho.

On a sidenote, I'd vote for all transport/freighter craft to be stripped down of guns to a 2 to 4 hardpoint level. If nothing else it would increase the amount of escort jobs.

Not so much fun for someone wanting to trade alone though, but seriously, how many times does a lone trader outgun a pirate, or a smuggler outgun a cop?

[Echo 7-7]

Freighters are cargo ships.
Missiles are offensive fighter weapons.

Weapon does not fit ship role.

I recall vanilla Freighters being able to mount missiles... but this is no longer vanilla and missiles have changed fairly drastically.

I think it would be a fair trade-off for Freighters (not Transports) to be able to mount a missile launcher on the CD mount, if they have one. That means loadouts become a trade off between the tactical flexibility of a CD and the firepower of a missile. Of course, balance isn't my department, nor have I had much of an opportunity to test out 4.87 missiles yet.

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[Strichev]

The opening post now contains a nice chunk of text.

First off, when I say freighter I don't mean a transport. I doubt anyone would want those 5k transports to stand a chance.

Echo's idea could work well, although the rather concise answer of AeD makes me wonder whether there is still any room for change,

[Murcielago]

Yes.

I would like to see how the missiles are working on my freighters....
If the fighters have option why shouldn't freighters have?


Murcielago

ps;
Echo wrote: "Freighters (not Transports) to be able to mount a missile launcher on the CD mount"
Why don't you do that for all snobs which are able to mount missiles?

[acqchangqing]

Gunboats Completely ruined.

This. you want a powerful offensive well armoured ship with a small hold?

funboat

haha,