Hello all you lovely peeps at FD 
I want to suggest something I think will be great fun if considered and implemented when 2.2 hits. The ship launched fighters are awesome because they are very fun to fly (my experience from CQC) and it looks like they will not incur heavy rebuy costs. Please let us all enjoy them by making them available for purchase (or actually "for rent" #Rent-a-fighter) at any space or planetary station that already has a shipyard.
Why would this be tons of fun? Well because it would be tons of fun to gather up a group of friends at a station; all of us buy the fighter we like the most - F63 Condor, GU97 Imperial fighter or Taipan. And then we can do all manner of fun activities like:
- Race around the station
- Do canyon races in fast agile one-man fighters
- Boost away from the station and engage in a CQC style free for all death match or team death matches
- Do a tournament style 1v1 duel elimination ladder where competitors battle 1v1 in front of the spectators/waiting tournament fighters until we get down to the final match between the top two. We already do this with Sidewinders in the group that I am a member of and it's really fun. It would be even more fun with fighters!
And last but not least this whole feature could create a whole new fighter specific racing and combat leagues where we can pit the 3 types of fighter up against each other statistically and aesthetically. I can already see it as becoming an annual event like the Buckyball Races and a much more convenient version of Oogie's PvP League.
The fighters just shout, "made for fun times!" to me and that's why I'd like to see them made available at stations. They don't need to be altered so as to have an FSD drive in my opinion (unless you guys at FD want to do that, I don't really mind). They're for fun. To paraphrase from the Hudsucker Proxy, "You know, for [grown up] kids."
I want to suggest something I think will be great fun if considered and implemented when 2.2 hits. The ship launched fighters are awesome because they are very fun to fly (my experience from CQC) and it looks like they will not incur heavy rebuy costs. Please let us all enjoy them by making them available for purchase (or actually "for rent" #Rent-a-fighter) at any space or planetary station that already has a shipyard.
Why would this be tons of fun? Well because it would be tons of fun to gather up a group of friends at a station; all of us buy the fighter we like the most - F63 Condor, GU97 Imperial fighter or Taipan. And then we can do all manner of fun activities like:
- Race around the station
- Do canyon races in fast agile one-man fighters
- Boost away from the station and engage in a CQC style free for all death match or team death matches
- Do a tournament style 1v1 duel elimination ladder where competitors battle 1v1 in front of the spectators/waiting tournament fighters until we get down to the final match between the top two. We already do this with Sidewinders in the group that I am a member of and it's really fun. It would be even more fun with fighters!
And last but not least this whole feature could create a whole new fighter specific racing and combat leagues where we can pit the 3 types of fighter up against each other statistically and aesthetically. I can already see it as becoming an annual event like the Buckyball Races and a much more convenient version of Oogie's PvP League.
The fighters just shout, "made for fun times!" to me and that's why I'd like to see them made available at stations. They don't need to be altered so as to have an FSD drive in my opinion (unless you guys at FD want to do that, I don't really mind). They're for fun. To paraphrase from the Hudsucker Proxy, "You know, for [grown up] kids."
