stop talking about civil tanks... makes me remember why every girl needs to ride a tank
Federation SWAT overpowered wing
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I've always despised RP'ing and RPG's - way too much over in the nerd spectrum for me and it makes me cringe mightily.
But if I were to RP (*cringe*) the ATR - they could be explained away as the ships being so extremely specialised and expensively kitted out, and their pilots the creme de la creme and hence expensive in upkeep and pay, that it's simply not possible to fund an entire military based on ATR. Instead, ATR is kept to maintain local law & order - to deal with the most egregious of crimes committed in a star system. That's why the ordinary Law Enforcement deals with crime first, before the last resort of ATR arriving at a crime spree.
Man, rep-farming with the Vespa 150 TAP is easy.
The purpose of the ATR is to chase off criminals.
It should be completely possible for the game AI to outfly human pilots with NPCs. Especially with an NPC wing. Even the best human pilot will make mistakes and not fly 100% optimally, a computer controlled NPC wing should be able to keep out of line of fire nearly all the time and keep at least one ship on the players six. Also against larger ships, they could bring larger ships to counter.
There is absolutely no need to "cheat" by equipping the NPC ships with weapons that don't exist in the main game.
It should be completely possible for the game AI to outfly human pilots with NPCs. Especially with an NPC wing. Even the best human pilot will make mistakes and not fly 100% optimally, a computer controlled NPC wing should be able to keep out of line of fire nearly all the time and keep at least one ship on the players six. Also against larger ships, they could bring larger ships to counter.
There is absolutely no need to "cheat" by equipping the NPC ships with weapons that don't exist in the main game.
Unfortunately Frontier do have a need to cheat, though, because the piloting you describe would achieve mere harassment.
The hard ceiling on Imperial Cutter Mj is now 11,300. Reverberating Cascade torps and mines only work on the unwary. FdL's have (obviously) much lower Mj but are actually in many respects more tanky (speed, laterals, profile).
In other words, due to Frontier's own total failure to deal with the products of their own 2.1 hit point inflation, they have had to invent magic reverberating cascade burst lasers. Because otherwise the ATR would literally be unable to cause law-breakers the slightest harm, whatsoever.
The ATR's weapons and the similar buff to station guns (also have reverberating cascade) are a stark admission of Frontier's failure to address shield hp inflation.
If anything, ATR should respond even quicker, and give zero warning when they are arriving, judging by a Certain Wizard's human player murder spree yesterday.
That proved the point that ATR are ineffective at dealing with egregious crime sprees.
That proved the point that ATR are ineffective at dealing with egregious crime sprees.
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I really don't see the problem although maybe 10 seconds would be even better...
i think the bad guys would prefer to be swatted really hardcore, instead of cheated.
something like notoriety level 10 spawning a fully G5 engineered squad, like conda, gunship and swarm of vipers, deploying their elite SLFs and railing away.
OFC in ALD space, this would be cutter, clipper and couriers, using TLB plasmas and High-Capacity Hammers (6 shot rails FTW)
something like notoriety level 10 spawning a fully G5 engineered squad, like conda, gunship and swarm of vipers, deploying their elite SLFs and railing away.
OFC in ALD space, this would be cutter, clipper and couriers, using TLB plasmas and High-Capacity Hammers (6 shot rails FTW)
There are plans for ATR in supercruise. So don't worry. They won't be polite reminders for long.
Why are you sticking around to fight them? Bug out and find other prey since ATR are not persistent (sadly).
Well, fact people post it means some get nervous. Wizard might laugh it off at the moment - especially with ATR not hanging out in supercruise - but overall it is step in right direction.
The first stupid thing that they would have done, would giving FEDERAL ships Aislings Shields, but we all know shes a power of the federation right?
Given they truly had prismatics. Maybe they had very tough engineered resistances which increases the amount of shots requried too.
Given they truly had prismatics. Maybe they had very tough engineered resistances which increases the amount of shots requried too.
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Yes it's not bad for the first iteration - and I'm sure I remember Frontier saying they would tweak response times etc. as well as introducing ATR in supercruise. It'll be interesting to see what they do.
But certainly, if a miscreant can still be able to go on a murder spree without fear of ATR reprisal at the moment, then ATR obviously need to be made even more rabid
