Not only was i like many not made aware before unlocking the Guardian plasma chargers/turrets , that only a human gunner can control the turrets,
sigh...
but because i am in a remote location in RL , in Australia, my chances of being able to both find someone who'd be happy to TRY to use them as a gunner at the kind of SPEEDS that you're talking about vs. interceptors WHILE not being jostled around too much ADDITIONALLY because of the high ping, (when most players are in the northern hemishpere AND not in East Asia which is about 150-400 ms delay, often, from here to Tokyo/Beijing , etc) , AND, then actually find that it was good enough to use them successfully vs. a cyclops or few ... is almost ZIP. nothing. a total waste.
with at least an AI crewman being able to to the gunnery, you could do it at ZERO ping, literally, since it's your CLIENT processing their decision making.
C'mon Frontier, make them worth SOMETHING.
sigh...
but because i am in a remote location in RL , in Australia, my chances of being able to both find someone who'd be happy to TRY to use them as a gunner at the kind of SPEEDS that you're talking about vs. interceptors WHILE not being jostled around too much ADDITIONALLY because of the high ping, (when most players are in the northern hemishpere AND not in East Asia which is about 150-400 ms delay, often, from here to Tokyo/Beijing , etc) , AND, then actually find that it was good enough to use them successfully vs. a cyclops or few ... is almost ZIP. nothing. a total waste.
with at least an AI crewman being able to to the gunnery, you could do it at ZERO ping, literally, since it's your CLIENT processing their decision making.
C'mon Frontier, make them worth SOMETHING.