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XFS0701 wrote:

I've stopped thinking of the Rihk as a bomber and started thinking of it as an anti-bomber. It makes the lighter loadout more bearable. =)

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Good point. I like that. Antibomber . . . wouldn't that make it an interceptor?

Man, that's one hell of an interceptor

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XFS0701 wrote:

Nah...I'll loan you the use of my interpretation of "interceptor":

interceptor - n. Any fighter craft capable of going fast enough that can, should all of its weaponry be depleted through expenditure or as the result of enemy action, ram an opponent into oblivion through sheer speed and ferocity.

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lol, that's great.

Force = mass * velocity

Rihk is slower, but once it gets moving, it's hard to stop Kinda like running into a brick wall . . . that's moving towards you

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AmericanSaint wrote:

How about adding the YT-2400 as a Master Level Privateer ship. Make it multiplayer, but allow the pilot to fire at least one of the weapons. I'd take that as the trade off for everybody and their brother flying around in a Firespray.

And by the way, Why not change the Master Privateer title to either "Ace" like the Rebel and Imperial masters or something cooler like Master Pirate (Ok, maybe not Master Pirate for all you CorSec and RSF folks). Maybe it's just me, but "Ace" sounds musch better than Master Freelance Pilot or whatever we get.

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Naa, we don't need another worthless multipass ship. We need a hardcore, unique fighter!! Oh, I just had an idea though. YT-2000 and YT-2400 can be variants of our multipass ship! That would be kickass!

But, 1st things 1st. Plus, rebels and imps would have a fit if we got variants and they didn't

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badger3 wrote:
Getting back on the original topic I agree completely, I’m seriously thinking of giving up on privateer, but will wait until I master and things settle down a bit.

The Kimogila and Rihkxark are Heavy fighters not bombers, privateer’s have no bombers, and they are exactly the same ship except for the mass, making the Kimogila useless once you have the Rihkxark. This is a shame as I think the Kimogila is the best looking fighter the Privateer’s have.

The Dunelizard and Ixiyen are almost the same, with the Ixiyen being slightly heavier and the Dunelizard being slightly more maneuverable. Neither being a serious challenge to other ships of similar mass or maneuverability.

And Privateer has no USABLE Light fighter the Kihraxz and Scyk both have such low masses that you cant seriously use them once you advance.

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Well, I know for a fact that the kimo is a bomber . . . simply because I see NPC kimos labelled as "Hutt Bomber" I'm quite certain that the Rihk is a bomber as well, based on it's speed cap and how it handles. But I agree, our light fighters are a joke past tier 2. Not to mention there is no reason to use a hutt ship after you hit 4/3/3/3.

Cmon devs . . . show us some love

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NightGun wrote:

I should apologize for my last couple of posts I have gotten off topic. With that in mind I will comment on the original topic of this post, Issues with Privateer.

I am currently still only level 1211 so haven't had a lot of experince yet but I see only minor issues with the way it currently is.

The ship masses are ok with me (Private ships aren't made for Military applications we are modifiying them to do such.

The Driod programs ? Please help me out here why exactly would I want to overload my reactor (Doesn't seem to affect anything but how much stuff I can equip back in my managment screen but I haven't yet used the skill so OK.)

The Skills. Their doesn't seem to be much here and I haven't used anything but speed boost yet. I guess these are OK with me although it depends a lot on how useful they actually are.

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I am 100% confident that as you progress through the tree, your opinion of our masses will drop significantly

I agree that the dunelizard is fantastic for up to tier 3. However, you'll notice that the mass of components take a dramatic increase once you get to lvl 5 and lvl 7. I'm 4/3/3/3 right now (was 4/4/4/4 in beta) and I can tell you that at this level you need some damn good equipment to keep up with the NPC's. However, mark IV weapons and equipment weigh about 20K each. So, lets look at the Ixiyen, our heaviest "fighter" at 80K. Probably use a looted reactor at around 10K mass or less to get by. Engine will be about 15K. Capacitor will be 10-20K (lets say 10.) Now, both weapons will be about 15K. That brings us to 75K . . . and that's just enough to get us in the fight. It doens't include shields, armor, droid interface, missiles,boosteror countermeasures. In the Rihk, I can get boosters,shields and armor, but no missiles, DI, or CM's. So, bottom line, early on privateer do ok, but after you lvl up (which doesn't take real long) we lag seriously behind the competition.

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Ganelon wrote:
That's a shame. I've started Privateer, but after reading the stats, I'm going to surrender it and start Reb. I'm all for different strokes, but really.... gimped?

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