How to chase down Viper

[bassman]

Won't this be mitigated to a degree when you can upgrade drives and the like?

So if you want to chase down prey you'd have to have a faster boat than the prey has?

... and once everyone has upgraded engines your back to square one.

 

[bassman]

That's exactly what an interceptor is supposed to do: control the engagement. And the Viper fills that role the best (with the ships we have now in Beta 1.03).

You want all ships to be nerfed to where they are all the same?
Some ship is always going to be "the fastest". Another ship will always be "the best armored". some other ship carries the most cargo.

The vipers speed advantage is currently completely dominating to the point where I'm actually getting bored flying one because no other ship offers a tough challenge one-on-one unless they are prepared to go with all missile loadout and spam you.

I think that some power management tweaking could make things more interesting - maybe have some ships (like the viper) generate more heat at top speed to that they could not sustain it indefinitely.

 

[Theaghan Black]

I think that some power management tweaking could make things more interesting - maybe have some ships (like the viper) generate more heat at top speed to that they could not sustain it indefinitely.

I don't think anything can be done at all.

I think it's more a problem of the performance of the Viper compared to its price aka "Everybody has a Viper".

Once the game is released I expect there will be few players owning a Viper.

This or FD should really leave the path of the full speed with FA-Off. That way engine management will have sense again.