Freighters

[Hielor]

When I look at the Grizzly, I shake my head in awe, because unless you haven't noticed, that thing has a 165 nanobot/battery capacity, two CM launchers and it can mount and fire 8 magma hammers. It's a ship that you use to fend off Outcast Tridents successfully, however a couple of them can easily slaughter a gunboat or two. The only drawback is that it has a crappy cargo space. And that it's bomber food.

That would have to be a *really* bad gunboat pilot to lose to someone in a freighter.

[hribek]

Grizzly with full magma hammers is no ordinary freighter.

You get 8 guns with bonus vs graviton shields. Killing "average Liberty pirate" gunboats with it ... works for me. Tested. Certainly nice as escort with a fighter to cover its rear. Pirate Transports hate Grizzlys more than gunboats do. Sure, Dromedary can kill a Shire given enough spacetime but this is a different league.

[DarthBindo]

Freighters like the grizzly work very well as escorts.
Just today my shire and two clysdales fought off a ptrans, sabre and LH gunboat.

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gone four years, first day back: Zoners still getting shot in Theta :|

[Hielor]

Grizzly with full magma hammers is no ordinary freighter.

You get 8 guns with bonus vs graviton shields. Killing "average Liberty pirate" gunboats with it ... works for me. Tested. Certainly nice as escort with a fighter to cover its rear. Pirate Transports hate Grizzlys more than gunboats do. Sure, Dromedary can kill a Shire given enough spacetime but this is a different league.

Did these gunboats not use bats? It'll take 18seconds for that Grizzly to down the shields the first time, and then he bats and is back to 105k, and you're out of energy shortly thereafter and only able to put out a bit less than 2k net dps to his shields.

Not to mention that magma hammers are so slow (and gunboat weapons so fast) that he'll have a much easier time hitting you than vice versa.

I stand by my statement that you were probably fighting bad gunboat pilots.

[Taffic]

I love freighters & I am looking forward to the 4.86 boost.
I did vote YES & YES but I am totally bias & have chosen to ignore any balance arguments.
2 combat freighters will rip apart a transport & with my CSF I have taken down jousting fighters.

My real concern with freighters is in giving them a unique role, other than being a stepping stone to more specialised craft. Being reasonable at all things isn't enough incentive for the majority of players.

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