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Thread: So the Y-8 gets 5 guns slots
CantinaOwner wrote:
No it wont be a good combat ship... It still has the blind backside!
There are no guns that can fire to the rear of the ship, and that makes it very easy for someone else to just get behind it in his faster fighter and blow the hell out of the Y-8.
And that is also why an escort could be useful while mining.
Did they remove the rear gun?
Good luck getting that many people together, unless your in a really big guild (hell even then, getting them all on at the same time). It'd be a really cool sight; seeing an entire fleet in space...
SecretA5DC wrote:
I figure I'll organize 5 y-8s in the middle and have squadrons of fighters around it... No corvette or star destroyer could destroy that
TheChipmunkSlayer wrote:
Good luck getting that many people together, unless your in a really big guild (hell even then, getting them all on at the same time). It'd be a really cool sight; seeing an entire fleet in space...
SecretA5DC wrote:
I figure I'll organize 5 y-8s in the middle and have squadrons of fighters around it... No corvette or star destroyer could destroy that
Imagine if you will a titanic fleet battle PvP event... Y-8s and other POBs on both sides wings of fighters assigned to escort... team speek devided up into wing's, ship wide and fleet chat... Ohhhh yeah!
CantinaOwner wrote:
No it wont be a good combat ship... It still has the blind backside!
There are no guns that can fire to the rear of the ship, and that makes it very easy for someone else to just get behind it in his faster fighter and blow the hell out of the Y-8.
And that is also why an escort could be useful while mining.
no its the ultimate deep space combat vessel, ive seen these things take out jedi star fighters!
CityHall wrote:
TheChipmunkSlayer wrote:
Good luck getting that many people together, unless your in a really big guild (hell even then, getting them all on at the same time). It'd be a really cool sight; seeing an entire fleet in space...
SecretA5DC wrote:
I figure I'll organize 5 y-8s in the middle and have squadrons of fighters around it... No corvette or star destroyer could destroy that
Imagine if you will a titanic fleet battle PvP event... Y-8s and other POBs on both sides wings of fighters assigned to escort... team speek devided up into wing's, ship wide and fleet chat... Ohhhh yeah!
That would probably be the single greatest moment this game would (will?) ever see...
I really hope at some point we can make it a reality. After all, it's up to us, not the devs.
CantinaOwner wrote:
No it wont be a good combat ship... It still has the blind backside!
There are no guns that can fire to the rear of the ship, and that makes it very easy for someone else to just get behind it in his faster fighter and blow the hell out of the Y-8.
And that is also why an escort could be useful while mining.
The top turret can aim backwards and it has a lower rear turret. But it does have a blind spot between the two turrets.
I am a little confused about the gun slot things.
I read the pilot can control at least 4 guns forward and now its only one.
So it makes that thing kinda useless for mining if you have no ppl on it.
So i think again mining with a fighter. 
JerseyGirl wrote:
I am a little confused about the gun slot things.
I read the pilot can control at least 4 guns forward and now its only one.
So it makes that thing kinda useless for mining if you have no ppl on it.
So i think again mining with a fighter.
The pilot could never control more than one gun. It used to be gun slot 2. Is it still?
may its slot 2. didnt have a look yet.
But that makes the whole thing totally useless.
My results after testing 2h with different variations:
Mining with the Y-8 is a pain in the ass! Maybe it's a flying fortress, but absolutly useless for Space Mining.
My suggestions:
a) Give the Y-8 Minig Lasers & TBsa lager range (~1km)
b) Forget the whole Y-8 ******* and give us larger Cargo Holds for the smaller Ships (~5k)