Imperial Majestic class Interdictors in Airspace

stocko1111 · May 12, 2015

Lowe1978 said:
Since I was close and not seen a Capital ship in the 'flesh' I headed over to take a look. Couldn't see one in any of the conflict zones.

I flew straight back to Quivira and am disappointed not to find anything too...

Morbad · May 12, 2015

Have you checked all of the CZs? There were something like eleven of them during the event.

Lowe1978 · May 12, 2015

I only saw two - anyone else in the area check if there's more?

Morbad · May 12, 2015

I'll check them and report the locations of any capital ships when I'm done watching Penny Dreadful.

Trofimov · May 12, 2015

Thanks for the reports from those who have fought Capital ships - I'm torn between hoping we get another set of conflicting CGs and a chance to bloody Patreus' nose properly, and worrying that this is the sort of thing that would get out of hand completely. Wait. What am I talking about. Out of hand completely sounds fun! Let me at those Capital ships!

Morbad · May 12, 2015

As of 12:30 there are no Capital Ships in any of the Quivira CZs and I checked them all (every planet around both stars in the system).

GrayTek · May 12, 2015

Nglakin has some Capital's atm.

Lowe1978 · May 12, 2015

Morbad said:
As of 12:30 there are no Capital Ships in any of the Quivira CZs and I checked them all (every planet around both stars in the system).

Repped for checking.

Kinda breaks the whole atmosphere of Galnet when something's reported and it's not actually happening.

Joe Spivey · May 12, 2015

Morbad said:
I've forced several Imperial Interdictors to flee, single-handedly. It's not particularly difficult unless their fighter cover is extreme.

Federal Battlecruisers are a whole different story. They have more, and better defended, heat relays, as well as many times the effective firepower. Only forced a few of these top hyperspace, and needed a wing in each case.

Which, imnsho, is something that simply should not be possible. And another pet gripe of mine, one hit from the guns of an Interdictor should be game over for any small ships... and i include the Annie in that too.

Morbad · May 12, 2015

Lowe1978 said:
Kinda breaks the whole atmosphere of Galnet when something's reported and it's not actually happening.

Perhaps they just haven't arrived yet?

Joe Spivey said:
Which, imnsho, is something that simply should not be possible. And another pet gripe of mine, one hit from the guns of an Interdictor should be game over for any small ships... and i include the Annie in that too.

The biggest guns on both the Imperial and Federal capital ships have trouble tracking smaller targets, and the smaller weapons are on par with what's mounted to smaller ships.

It's not the firepower that I really have an issue with when it comes to how easy it is to taake down a Majestic class, it's that these are completely static targets with numerous blindspots.