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Agreed. Make fighters the attack craft that can be one-shot or two-shotted, make the mp ships the things that can take at least 30+ hits (considering the refire rate on some weapons) and have horrible aim (already implimented in turrets). Then just give em a bunch of turrets and basically hope that they can hit the fighter coming in on a strafing run. That's how capital ships worked in the X-Wing games; if they had one turret you could practically always avoid being hit, however, if they had a large amount of turrets, you would have a harder time avoiding all of the blasts.

JoKen Jash
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i don't think weapons need to be more powerful. I agree with the Tank idea.

MP ships should not be soloable by one Player in a fighter. well, they should be really hard to solo.

They should have 6-10k shields, and basically just be the assualter In PvE, using heavy ordance against the SD or Reb Station, and the turrets to ward off fighters.

In PvP they should be like fire support. just another threat for the enemy fighters, but one they have to make a coordinated attack on. and with only two turrets, that shouldnt be that hard.

"and I'm sure they'll fix it so that all crafted elite lv equipment is worth while"

ROFL... your kidding right? Are you and I thinking of the same Devs that have made all the different Combat weapons cookie cutters of each other in the ground game? THe same Devs that told the rangers for almost 2 years there was NO WAY they could have us not on Radar with our Camo then POOF rifleman Coverup does just that? heheh,,,

Man thanks I needed a good laugh after the way this week has gone..

Either cut the refire delay on the weapons, or stagger the fire between cannons in order to make tracking much easier for the gunners.

Add turrets for the side, front, and rear hemispheres.

Give repair access to droid interface.

Keva - Bothan Master Bounty Hunter (pre CU/NGE)
Master Rebel Pilot many times over.
Expert Corvette Attack Pilot.
Corbantis.

Keva - Bothan Master Bounty Hunter (pre CU/NGE)
Master Rebel Pilot many times over.
Expert Corvette Attack Pilot.
Corbantis.

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I will be playing DDO and BF2:SF.
/salute Bria and so long.

OH hell and in addition... make turrets behave just like the turrets on planetside tanks... if you don't know what i'm talking about... basically the tank turns but the turret stays on the current vector/axis as it is...

meaning your pilot can fly all over th eplace all crazy and your gun will stay pointing where you have it pointed.

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I will be playing DDO and BF2:SF.
/salute Bria and so long.

Keva - Bothan Master Bounty Hunter (pre CU/NGE)
Master Rebel Pilot many times over.
Expert Corvette Attack Pilot.
Corbantis.

the turret situation can be handled with better communication between gunners and pilot.

Both gunners need a macro setting up and hotlinking to their toolbar. This macro does this....

/GC Upper Turret Clear

or

GrimBear

When you're flying an MP ship, turn padlock view on and use smooth, slow movements until the agro ships are beyond range of your gunners. In the YT there is a point where the turrets have an overlapping field of fire, so use that to your advantage. The main thing is to remember to use smooth, steady movements. I really don't see the problem that people always seem to have with this.

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That's my experience. Get a target into the sweetspot of overlapping fields of fire. But also letting gunners know you're chasing a particular target can be helpful so they -do- doubleup on the same bandit. My technique comes from actually using the cockpit view so there's no visual distortion and I can set a target up on the equator of my YT. Then I try to close with it but throttle back as it starts turning back towards me. The rest of it is slowing up so my gunners have some time to fire as it makes a pass, getting it on my nose as much as possible, and then using rudders to roll the ship gently onto an angle that puts the bandit into the gunner's sweet spot. I want that thing flying right along side me.

Mandash Grim
Captain of The Ikopi Stag

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Exactly. And if you have gunners that know what they're doing you can take out just about anything ina few passes.

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Wise man say, "forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."