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Capship escort
Currently, if you're piloting a capship while in an escort mission it doesn't count. The reason Inc mentioned for it in the related bug post was that they asked for a "fighter escort". Capships being largely incapable of fighting, can't be counted as an escort.
However, I have frequently noticed convoy capships that travel completely empty, as an escort for the small ships bearing cargo. So the need for fighter escorts applies only to players, not NPCs? Why this difference of rules, when it doesn't even have much of a gameplay advantage? An actively piloted Goliath is capable of keeping up with a convoy behemoth as an escort. Allow it to do so.
However, I have frequently noticed convoy capships that travel completely empty, as an escort for the small ships bearing cargo. So the need for fighter escorts applies only to players, not NPCs? Why this difference of rules, when it doesn't even have much of a gameplay advantage? An actively piloted Goliath is capable of keeping up with a convoy behemoth as an escort. Allow it to do so.
An actively piloted Goliath is capable of keeping up with a convoy behemoth as an escort.
In your experience, would you say that a player piloted Goliath would be able to defend a convoy behemoth from a player piloted fighter?
In your experience, would you say that a player piloted Goliath would be able to defend a convoy behemoth from a player piloted fighter?
In your experience, would you say that a player piloted Goliath would be able to defend a convoy behemoth from a player piloted fighter?
Depends on the skill of the Goliath pilot and the aggressor pilot. Also, this isn't really a valid argument in the current scenario. The mission rewards you even if you fly along in a Behemoth XC, which is even less capable of providing defense than a Goliath.
Depends on the skill of the Goliath pilot and the aggressor pilot. Also, this isn't really a valid argument in the current scenario. The mission rewards you even if you fly along in a Behemoth XC, which is even less capable of providing defense than a Goliath.
Please see the pinned rules and flesh this out.
Depends on the skill of the Goliath pilot and the aggressor pilot. Also, this isn't really a valid argument in the current scenario. The mission rewards you even if you fly along in a Behemoth XC, which is even less capable of providing defense than a Goliath.
It was the same point I made to you, on Bugs. The intent of the mission is for the convoy to hire a fighter escort to help protect them on their journey. I don't see what they should hire a capship, which by-and-large, will not be effective at the intended goal of providing a combat escort (given the current "freighter" status and reality).
- The fact that a mission-limitation / oversight / bug exists, allowing someone to use a Behemoth XC as an escort, does not follow logically as a reason to enable this. It's like you're saying "some stuff is broken, so we should break everything, to make it all the same".
- The fact that other NPC capships may sometimes appear in convoys, without carrying cargo, is also not a sensible reason for us to make the player mission illogical. Once again, your argument seem to be without logical foundation. One thing being occasionally inconsistent does not mean we should make everything else even worse.
It was the same point I made to you, on Bugs. The intent of the mission is for the convoy to hire a fighter escort to help protect them on their journey. I don't see what they should hire a capship, which by-and-large, will not be effective at the intended goal of providing a combat escort (given the current "freighter" status and reality).
- The fact that a mission-limitation / oversight / bug exists, allowing someone to use a Behemoth XC as an escort, does not follow logically as a reason to enable this. It's like you're saying "some stuff is broken, so we should break everything, to make it all the same".
- The fact that other NPC capships may sometimes appear in convoys, without carrying cargo, is also not a sensible reason for us to make the player mission illogical. Once again, your argument seem to be without logical foundation. One thing being occasionally inconsistent does not mean we should make everything else even worse.