Buff the Capital Ships

[Raz0rking]

Yay for once, a threat about buffing something...and the best part is, it is NOT a player ship.

I was one of the lucky people beeing able to attack a capital ship in a conflict zone. As awesome the visuals and the sounds are, the firepower of a capital is just pathetic compared to its size and renoun. The weakpoints are also so incredible blatant. For real...just duh!
I was in a Viper when attacking it and no problem. Imho one should not be able to attack a capital alone. Not even in a fully A grade 'conda.

Just my two cents though.

 

[ComradeFresco]

Please please please tell me people aren't soloing capital ships? That would be so depressing.

 

[Windscreen Smudge]

Please please please tell me people aren't soloing capital ships? That would be so depressing.

I do believe I remember one guy commenting that it was rather depressing that he soloed 40+ capitals and didn't change the outcome of a civil war.

 

[Raz0rking]

It can be done...it is not easy, but WAAAAY to easy for a capital (it was a majestic interdictor).

 

[ComradeFresco]

WHELP. That is double depressing. FD i enjoy your game but holy bazoolie you cannot defend these types of flaws! if a capital ship warps in front of me i want to be SCARED and awe-inspired and above all believe that i'm somewhere important where something significant will happen.


A single pilot blowing up 40 capitol ships without effect to a war undermines that.

 

[Raz0rking]

WHELP. That is double depressing. FD i enjoy your game but holy bazoolie you cannot defend these types of flaws! if a capital ship warps in front of me i want to be SCARED and awe-inspired and above all believe that i'm somewhere important where something significant will happen.


A single pilot blowing up 40 capitol ships without effect to a war undermines that.

you ARE scared. The sound and the visuals are pure awesomness. (have you played Mass effect? If yes, the reaper capital ship noise will be very familiar to you)

 

[Neo-ST]

I agree, they're pretty weak currently.
One should fear the very sight of a capital ship, let alone to think about attacking it.

 

[N6MAA10816]

Yay for once, a threat about buffing something...and the best part is, it is NOT a player ship.

I was one of the lucky people beeing able to attack a capital ship in a conflict zone. As awesome the visuals and the sounds are, the firepower of a capital is just pathetic compared to its size and renoun. The weakpoints are also so incredible blatant. For real...just duh!
I was in a Viper when attacking it and no problem. Imho one should not be able to attack a capital alone. Not even in a fully A grade 'conda.

Just my two cents though.

Agree...should be like a tick on an Elephant IMO

Like this (0:48)

[video=youtube;HvbgqrPrjkQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvbgqrPrjkQ[/video]

 

[Defacto]

you ARE scared. The sound and the visuals are pure awesomness. (have you played Mass effect? If yes, the reaper capital ship noise will be very familiar to you)

The greatest dangers that the capital ships currently pose is that you might run into them if focused on something else. This takes away a bit of the fear.
Also, it just warps away when ''killled'' and returns a few minutes after? It can never be destroyed? Yaaaaaay...

 

[darshu]

Don't be ridiculous Buffing is never the answer. No we need to nerf all the player ships that's true balancing!

 

[Haggis McMoose]

Totally agree,

I already had the chance to extensively watch the capabilities of the Majestic class Interdictor and Farragut class Battlecruiser... and aside from the awe-inspiring sound and really decent optics THEY JUST MAKE NO SENSE. You can fly a slow-paced corkscrew around one, get hit a dozen times and still have a fair amount of shields left ...in a measly Viper! How much are those Behemoths of annihilation supposed to cost? Judging from size, scaling should be between 10 and 100 billion credits... put that cash into 30-300 killer Condas and watch the skies burn!

No, seriously, those cap ships are ridiculous immersion breakers at the moment! I can understand that instanced gameplay with a limited number of players in a single instance also imposes an upper limit on possible concerted actions against these beasts, but if a cap ship can be soloed on a regular basis, somebody has configured something veeeeery veeeery wrrrroooooong.

Haggis McMoose,
Capping ships

 

[Joe Spivey]

I was most dissapointed to see small ships taking multiple hits from main battery guns. It would be like a destroyer shrugging of 15" shells from a battleship in WW2. Hope they are 'un-nerfed' soon.

 

[Haggis McMoose]

I was most dissapointed to see small ships taking multiple hits from main battery guns. It would be like a destroyer shrugging of 15" shells from a battleship in WW2. Hope they are 'un-nerfed' soon.

Hmm, Sidewinder vs. Interdictor, right? We're talking "The mighty rubberduck laughs at your puny 15" shells!"... but yeah, pretty much that!

If this is the firepower of the guns for this Anaconda class 4 slot... then an Eagle seems to be a viable alternative.

Haggis McMoose
Bombing bird(s)

 

[Cathalo]

Capital ships are bugged, you can't even destroy them if you disable everything and get hull to zero.