the problem is that NPC battleships (and other caps) dont differ much in level than NPC fighters. A mission randomly generates npc's based on their level related to mission difficulty.
So, for a 300k mission, you might go up against a dozen or so fighters, or you might go up against 4-5 battleships =/
What I find laughable is how much damage and hull the NPC battleships on missions have - they take forever to kill and can rip you apart pretty easily if you dont pay attention - however, NPC battleships that arent linked to missions (like those flying over manhattan) can easily be solo'd by anyone with a bomber or cap because they do pathetic damage.
Correct me if I am wrong but all these folks saying dreadnaughts, battleships and gunboats? I have seen nothing but destroyers. And on one occation Ossiris dreadnaughts when doing a Outcast mission from Bornholm.
If there is any place to do mission where you can kill Outcast Caps or House capital ships please tell me. I like missions, Ive done more than 680 of them with all characters combined and I have not seen any.
Capships generally only pop up in high paying missions, and i've never seen any high paying anti-lawful missions within house territories.
Anti-corsair missions obtained from bornholme or other borderworlds stations tend to send you up against osiris battleships.
Anti-bounty hunter missions in the borderworlds tend to pit you against large numbers of destroyers, but i've never seen a mission pit me against gunboats or BH battleships.
I dont know where you could get anti-outcast missions that have caps, but I do know there are huge numbers of outcast destroyers flying around omicron alpha, near ibiza base.
Battleship Missouri will throw you up against Rogue GBs, as will the Essex. Malta and Ibiza like BH dessies, as do Crete and Tripoli. Missions against the Corsairs in 41 or Delta are liable to throw you against Osirises, plural. Any mission against the Wild outside of those offered in Omega-55 (I kid you not, the RM and ALG NPCs in the bar offer missions against the Wild) has a chance of throwing you against Scorpion gunboats.. the kind that makes the uber-Freelancers look like sissies.
Basically, in any system where faction x has cap NPCs, a mission against that faction will occasionally throw those caps at you if the mission is of high enough level. So, you don't get anti-cap missions from the unlawfuls in house space because the mission levels are so low, but some of the battleships will have high enough level missions to do the reverse.
for some reason i've been getting some missions from crete.. $200-250 for destroyers. Well come on now. You try killing destroyers in a light fighter. By the time u kill one, 4 more are approaching.
' Wrote:Crete has them too along with Malta and few other places. I think I've seen battleships on missions as low as 150k. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but battleship missions are limited to destroying ships. So if you choose an assassination or cargo mission you should be okay.
I've noticed that the Corsairs seem to be the only ones who sling battleships your way, but having to take out 9 BH destroyers is usually worse.. Still knocking the dents out of my gunboat.. :wacko:
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