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Aug 30, 2003 Arolte link
*sigh*

Since Humpy is repeating himself for the thousandth time I figured I would too.

Bombers NEED defensive weapons. They should be able to hold their own against fighters. Not necessarily be a fighter killer, but rather something that would keep the fighters far away from them. Unfortunately the current weapons still need balancing/tweaking, which is the main reason why you're still a bit skeptical.

There, I've repeated myself yet again. Let's see if it'll have some sort of impact... which I doubt. Oh well.

=)
Aug 30, 2003 Renegade ++RIP++ link
Humpy, a little list of the ships flown a lot:

Valk
Vulture
atlas
marauder
warthog
Free ship "EC - 88, or bus"
rag : for specific things, mostly nuking stations or defending flags. But if people want to stay a little agile and still nuke, then they will take the warthog.

The rest of the ships are pretty much not flown.

prom : only by a couple of people and Im one of them
wraith: if im out of proms, some select group uses it to. Not many though
hornet: only arolte or blaster flies them, mostly out of 3.1 fever :D
centaur: newbies thinking that it is better to have 2 more cargo and take the big manouvrability hit
ragnarok: Never seen it flown just to fly around

PS: scuba, I dont expect it to go toe to toe, but I really dont expect it when a fighter meets a heavy bomber type ship that a fighter will leave unharmed. besides, the real bombers are the frigates, the bombers now are semi fighter - bomber hybrids :D. So to say it in short, I expect to be able to take out a fighter ship in my heavy if im lucky or by outhulling them and they are being a lousy shot.

I dont expect the heavy ship to win guaranteed, but it wouls still have a chance to kill its agressor.

cheers
Aug 31, 2003 Arolte link
Hehe, 3.1 fever is right. That was back when the Hornet was actually useful.

*sigh*

At least it still looks sexy. As much as I can hope, I doubt that design will remain as Waylon works on the new ship art. But maybe cooler looking ships are in the works. Damn, I wish they'd release teasers on the new ship designs. That is if Waylon even started working on them.