Nickolai Alaric
Do you have any Dev Input regarding this ship?
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
I would buy it. its got the looks of something that would fit in discovery, have a great RP field to play with, the shape, a simple shape of a brick, but minipulated into a ship makes it a great addition to the civilian ships, which would be good to see more of imo. although i disagree to see it as a gunboat, and more of a strong armed transport, similar to a gunboat though, to be a explorer and not really a fighting ship is were i loose focus on its ideals. the creator knows what hes talking about, he made the ship, it looks as if he has put alot of thought into it(as you would, its your own creation!?) and knows the best possible suit for it.
anyway this is my two cents and would love to have something like that in-game, hell, resize it and it could make a light carrier or something.
be good to see more smuggler like ships, and frieghters.
I really like the clumsy and bulky model, but there's one thing that troubles me.
Civilian Explorer.
A Gunboat is the smallest class of warships, a heavy gunboat classifies as war machine in my opinion, nothing a civilian should fly around with.
Also stats should be made by the dev team.
11 Gunboatweapons? The heaviest Gunboat there is at the moment only has 8 weapons.
2 x CM? That's enugh for a cloak and a CM.
Also it's having almost twice as much cargospace as other Gunboats, enough to make good use of cloaks.
Indeed it is perfect for explorer- make the thrust speed 120 and the lack of CD would compensate for this perks- it would be good ship to scout/explore/defend but it would be useless as attacking vessel, other option is to make it with Transport Shield like the Salvager- however since it would have only 800 cargo GB shield suits it better. I guess bad agility and 120 thrust, 150m price tag would make up for all Perks that this ship have.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
I also does not like civ GBs but they are coming anyway- the two would be BW line one and CTE line one-both should be like Bottlenose according to AD.
This here is totally different then combat ship. Due its big size lack of CD and other features that I hope would be implemented like brick handling and 120 Thrust- it wont be possible to use it to attack other ships.
I would like to see for first time in Disco civilian explorer that could defend itself without being abused as attacking ship like Ku Ex.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
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