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Thread: Petition: Bump up the mass on the Royal Guard TIE Interceptor

Darkknight109
Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:37 pm
#1


OK, I have a bit of a rant to go off on. I got Rage of the Wookies back in the summer. Within my first half an hour on Kashyyykplus a fifteen minute trip to Dathomir under the guidance of a friend of mine, I did a series of very easy quests and was rewarded with an Eta-2 Actis starfighter. Upon reaching Tier 4 a few days later, I found it was much better than any other ship available to me from a shipwright. So I think "Hey, that's great. Now let's go find that spiffy Imperial Guard Interceptor I've been hearing so much about!"


So after a few more days on Kashyyyk, I finally start the RGI quests. Oh, man were they fun. Hard but fun. I dualed the last mission and headed off triumphantly to get my brand new state-of-the-art blood-red Royal Guard TIE Interceptor. I head down, open up the deed....


....and find a ship with 10k less mass and one less gunthan the actis.


What?


So let me get this straight...


Situation 1: Go to Dathomir, fly to Kash, do some ground quests, kill a bunch of MOBs, none of which were above CL 40. Get rewarded with one of the best ships in the game

Situation 2: Fly through a series of space missions, thus proving your dedication to space in the first place, which involve killing large numbers of tier 2-5 craft, a bunch of escort missions (which we all love so much...) and disabling AND PROTECTING a corvette with escorts. Reward? A ho-hum ship with much lower mass and weapons ratings...


How at all does that make sense? At first I thought it was universal and was prepared to just suck it up and deal with it. Then I hear about the Heavy X-wing. 180k mass. That's more than double that of the Royal Guard.


Now I'm not saying I want the RGI on an equal level with every other ship in the game, but COME ON! Would it be that hard to maybe give it another weapon andsomemore mass? Hell, if it had, say 100k-120k mass and two gun-ports, it would be a worthy competitor to the e2a, instead of the fancy decoration it is right now...


EDIT: OK, yeesh, I was wrong, I admit it.... You can stop the flaming now

Message Edited by Darkknight109 on 09-25-2005 09:08 PM



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Halyn
Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:50 pm
#2



/ranton



How much flying have you done? Seriously? Not a whole lot, judging by the references to getting the Actis before you could fly it.


Have you looked at any of the pre-RotW craft? Huh? The standard TIE Interceptor is 50K MASS. YEAH, 50K! And you come here and complain about the RGI *only* having 80k mass?


I'm sorry for ranting on you like this, but I am absolutely SICK of people coming in here complaining about how the quest ships AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH.


Actis/Belbullabs are extremely overpowered in the current scheme of things. Advanced X-wing/Vaksai/RGI less so (RGI would be the best-balanced of those if its hitbox was fixed), but still out of balance.


/rantoff



EDIT:


Again, I apologize. But I'm just a bit frustrated with people complaining about RotW ships not being powerful *enough*. Some of us veterans soloed most or all of the squadrons with stock crafted JtL craft, which generally have less mass and less maneuverability than the new ships. All of the RotW craft need a balance pass to straighten space out a bit. I have no qualms with the RGI being a respectable ship (other than hitbox problem), but you complain about it *only* havin 80k mass when there are pilots who love flying ships that have 65k mass who would kill for the extra mass that the RGI provides.

Message Edited by Halyn on 09-22-2005 05:54 PM




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Saramar
Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:13 pm
#3

wow, more mass? i was surprised it could hold as much as it does.


i'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one.




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quadpers0n
Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:21 pm
#4

considering the size of the hitbox, i'd say there's absolutely no need for more mass. you practically don't even need to equip a shield.



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S-1-l2-H-C
Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:35 pm
#5

whoa... you want the rgi even MORE powerful? its already the most potent pvp ship in the game due to the hitbox bug.




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Kryxal
Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:38 pm
#6

People PvP in a standard T/I, and you think the RGI needs more mass? The mind boggles...



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Scoser
Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:46 pm
#7

I demand a free starfighter-mounted superlaser with 1k mass and 100 reactor drain for signing up with any squadron!



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Ducimus
Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:00 pm
#8

Is this thread for real?



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S-1-l2-H-C
Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:03 pm
#9






Scoser wrote:

I demand a free starfighter-mounted superlaser with 1k mass and 100 reactor drain for signing up with any squadron!





i agree. if they do put in a superlaser though they need to modify the look and sound of the laser to something gay cause the one in the movie is actualy cool and wouldnt fit with the rest.



EDIT:


oh and they would need to nerf it a couple weeks after it gets pushed to live so that new pilots and people who didnt jump on it when it was released are screwed with a useless peice of equipment while the prenerf ones dont get changed.

Message Edited by S-1-l2-H-C on 09-22-2005 06:06 PM



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tic-toc
Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:15 pm
#10

wow man ur complaining bout the rg tie.. too funny



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Sar-larid
Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:33 pm
#11






Halyn wrote:



All of the RotW craft need a balance pass to straighten space out a bit.





I hate trends and cliches, so I won't repeat the 3 magic letters so beloved on the forums the last couple months when someone agrees, hehehe.






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FilanVader
Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:51 pm
#12

i love the heavy X-Wing, was a nice easy transition from my longprobe without having to get all new gear. on my freelancer however i like the dunelizard being 85k at my current level its more then enough and will be nice to grow into while not going overkill with gear like i did with the Y-Wing LP and its 160k mass.
Darkknight109
Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:24 pm
#13


Admitedlly I haven't done a lot of PvPing, as my server doesn't have a strong PvP element in space. However, I can see I'm outvoted on this one...


Just out of curiosity, what is this hitbox issue I'm hearing about?



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