Battleship idea to stop widespread use and make them more powerful at the same time

[silverleaf]

I know how easy it is to escort in them and pwn fighters, but I also know how it gets owned by gunboats.

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[reavengitair]

They don't get owned by gunboats easily.

1 skilled bomber can easily take down a gunboat.

[silverleaf]

I remember how my siege cruiser (the cheap one) pwnt 2 bombers who were stupid enough to attack me. No sweat.

But lets not deviate too far off topic. The truth is people like to feel grand flying around in a capship the size of stations. Most space sim fans love that. A belief of superiority reinforced by almost all sci fi films and games. People ARE going to flood disco with capships, and many would quit if you told them they cant fly them no more.

Therefore, this would limit capship use to when they are really REALLY needed and will stop me patrolling manhattan space in my cruiser.

Quickedit: I'm no griefer, I won't use it on transports and smugglers, don't want to ruin the fun for anyone. However will use it against pirates when necessary.

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[reavengitair]

Liberty Seige Cruisers are harder to take down than most cruisers due to its small, sleek size.

And what type of bombers were these? And if you fought them in liberty, and they were indies, its probable that they are not that good a bomberpilot.

[... kur nubėgo?]

SO perhaps you doing something wrong. Current situation about gunboats owning fighters / bombers doesnt work. Or work very rarely and requires a lot of skill or some special tactic I seen just afew times durning my time in dico. Actually some gunbaots gan be owned by well equiped VHF. So what to talk about a bomber?

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[silverleaf]

well my havoc II bomber has virtually NO shields. A few stray shots and I'm dead. In a group its deadly though.

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[Aoyagi]

From my point of view its just fine as it is. One bomber -should- be able to take down a gunboat since it's a capital ship. Antibomber ships are fighters and gunship and those work just fine as well. And the only thing that I would do to anything bigger then gunboat would be making it admin given only. But I would be even more hated after that so forget it :$

[reavengitair]

From my point of view its just fine as it is. One bomber -should- be able to take down a gunboat since it's a capital ship. Antibomber ships are fighters and gunship and those work just fine as well. And the only thing that I would do to anything bigger then gunboat would be making it admin given only. But I would be even more hated after that so forget it

Exactly. However, I disagree with your bigger than gunboat thing.

Bombers need to become more powerful, not less.

[Violette]

Quickedit: I'm no griefer, I won't use it on transports and smugglers, don't want to ruin the fun for anyone. However will use it against pirates when necessary.

Problem, your LABC is a WARship, it doesn't go kill stray criminals. It's meant for serious threats, not petty thefts and pirates.


THINK about what a captain of a ship would do, captain of a WARship.


Ahem.

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[11of10]

Well, how about each battleship needing approx 800 units of hfuel or MOX or whatever each time it undocks? And if there isn't enough on board, the FLhook reports "Not enough fuel" on Hamburg there is a similar system, or was.

That way, it would be a cheap commodity, (ok, let's go with MOX on that one)... and yet, needed... might as well make a necesarry team role play out of every undocking, for instance, the larger the ship, the more MOX it needs... and then, you need to get a transport to refuel you... otherwise, you can't engage cruise speed?

Or, would that be too radical for the community?

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