Is the Collector broken?

[alance]

Hi all, hope this is the right place to ask...

I recently created a Junkers character, flew the CSV for a while, then traded up for a Collector. The problem is the shields on this ship are not transport class, is this not a bug of some sort? It's listed as a freighter, the upgraded CSV II, so why is it suffering from heavy fighter shields with no ability to mount transport shields?

Thanks for clarifying.

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"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."

[Dopamino]

cuz it so darn hard to shoot.

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[Doom]

Broken?...funny way of putting it...

No it isn't broken...Collector doesn't have transport shields cause that would make it too powerful, almost unkillable (atm freighter and transport shields are not very balanced) It was imagined as VHF for junkers but with biggest cargo hold among fighters. Junkers are always in search for..well, junk, so the need big cargo hold on their ships. It has something from both worlds...weapons and shielding of a VHF and cargo hold of freighter.

[Smiley_]

This is not a bug. It says in the description of the collector that it "can mount heavy fighter shields" This is about 11,000 shield points instead of the 9,000 or so from the transport shield.

Mounting a transport shield would disrupt supposedly the equilibrium between hull and shields.

The next level of transport shields has 15,000

then after that 25,000

[alance]

Okay makes sense as a VHF, but "can use fighter shields" doesn't say to me that it's a fighter and it's restricted to those... says it "can" use them. *shrug* not a huge deal, just an oddball ship.

Salamander, my civ transport shields level 1 and 2 have 45000 and 70000 points respectively.

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"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."

[Dopamino]

dont worry about it. get some class ten hf shields and you'll be near invincible to npcs.

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[alance]

dont worry about it. get some class ten hf shields and you'll be near invincible to npcs.

I was kind of planning to move on up the chain of allowable junker transports so don't really want to invest the $$ in fighter gear.

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"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."

[Dopamino]

ah, well go ahead and hop up to the next level as soon as you can.

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[alance]

Out of curiousity, how would you envision using the Collector on the RP server? It's too low in cargo space to trade effectively, seems to leave just piracy. Anyone have experience using it in such a role?

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"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."

[Dopamino]

put a nova, some CODES, nomad blasters and splitter/barrager turrets on it,and ur one mean pirating machine

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