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ravingbantha

Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:50 pm

My guild is an Imp guild abd we are looking at making a "Flagship" for our guild... now we would like to deck this out for some PvP (if we ever do any up in space). We each have our own fighters we prefer, but what would you guys say is the best PvP POB... as an Imp guild we cannot use the Nova Courier... so

A) Decimator

B) Yt-1300

C) Y-8

I've flown all 3 and would say the Decimator, You have a center pilot view, and the Y-8 although it can mount more guns, has a very limited fire arc on the bottom.

xTekx

Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:19 pm

#2

Make sure you get the POB armor and shields, that will help some. Instead of 1-2 hits it'll be 3-4 hits, atleast in my experience.

But the most important part of the POB ship is the crew. You have to have gunners who can shoot, and understand their limitations in the ship. Pilot who understands that he's flying a flying target. So he has to set up his gunners just right in order to scare away incoming hostiles.

We have one guy on Bloodfin who flys his decimator all the time in DS. He's a tough target to take out because he has missles, and a crew that knows what they're doing and shoots good. He still dies most of the time, but he has taken me out once and few other people i believe. He's changed it from just a swoop in and fly through the debris target to something that you need to take time and analyze your approach because he is always aware and will try to get a missle lock on you if he can. He's done good with it and has made me wnat to set my nova up for pvp. lol

We're even talking about doing some POB vs POB fights in DS just for laughs. Now that's going to be funny. Who wants to buy a ticket?? lol

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Ducimus

Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:38 pm

#3

Call my cynical (which i am alot of times) but, PvP and POB mentioned in the same sentence is about enough of an anachronism as Military and Intelligence.

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xTekx

Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:51 pm

#4

it is funny to say pvp and pob in the same sentence.. but with good crew and pilot, it can be made to work.. won't be great, but makes for a challenge..

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SheenaBrelya

Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:29 pm

#5

If you're serious above PvP and POB, I'd say go with the Deci. If fot no other reason, the additional Ordnance slot. A set of three good missiles will be as effective (or more) than the two turrets you mount.

Shona

Ducimus

Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:08 am

#6

SheenaBrelya wrote:
If you're serious above PvP and POB, I'd say go with the Deci. If fot no other reason, the additional Ordnance slot. A set of three good missiles will be as effective (or more) than the two turrets you mount.

Shona

Being serious... if i were to pick a POB for some pseudo battlecruiser action, id go with a deci. The reason being is most of the repair panels are ideally located. It makes running aback and forth between them alot quicker. The only oddball panel(s) are located in the front of the ship, but the engineering section has the majority of them.

On top of that the gun turrets aren't very far out of reach either if your had ppl idle on the bridge. Speaking of bridges, the deci acutally has A BRIDGE, not a cockpit.
That, and the visiblity in a deci is far better then the other two ships.

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Snooze821

Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:48 am

#7

The first test if your crew is ready for POB is if you need to tell them when and what to shoot. You will not have time to turn and type so if you crew isn't shooting what they should then it's pointless to begin with. The second part is you HAVE TO have a co-pilot which knows when and how to use droid commands. The last part is you, sometimes using /follow on your enemy keeps your ship angled correctly and hopefully with common sense gunners you can take out even a JSF. Your gunners need to know that if the enemy if coming at you then they can shoot before the green target comes up and still hit the mark and also if the ship is being chased they can also shoot further than the chasing target. No regular ship has shield good enough to survive 2 hits from POB guns you can shook your enemy pretty good so long as your gunner are at least shooting in the correct direction.

Also if anyone on your ship is type messages your dead because then they don't understand how important thier jobs are. PVP are dead silence times until it's over or unless your all using teamspeak.

Also if the enemy decides to joust line up with missles and blow them away.

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AzzixxSWG

Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:58 am

#8

It's been my experience that none of the above make good fighting craft for PvE or PvP. If you must, choose the Deci.

To see if your crew can even stand a chance against a player try to do a tier 4 duty mission with it. Ifthey can't handle a tier 4 duty what chance do you have in Deep Space?

Joint_Maker

Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:35 am

#9

Ducimus wrote:
Call my cynical (which i am alot of times) but, PvP and POB mentioned in the same sentence is about enough of an anachronism as Military and Intelligence.

Roflmao

And on the topic... i dunno, we were testing some POB vs POB the other day and it was a joke. If both gunners land a single shot the fight is over... with lvl 10 guns there is not much fun in it.

We tryed with all marks, and definitly, 1vs1 in POB ships is definitly more fun with mark I lasers... it may sound way too little firepower, but its the only way to make this fight something similar to what we have seen in the movies.

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ravingbantha

Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:41 pm

#10

Thanks for the advice, I was thinking the same, go with the decimator... I know atm POB ships aren't very usefull in PvP, but a few people in my guild are hardcore about a guild Flagship for this. Personally I'de just prefer to fly my Kryat (I love that thing)... so I though I would ask around anyways.

Hopwfully Bigger and better shields and Armor will be added in the comming months, to make the 5 million mass worth it, right now the POB only stuff that was added is still a joke, unless they plan on putting out some smaller POB's with less mass and better maneuverability.

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