So Ship outfitted with Thargoid weapons - is powerless against gankers ?

[CapuchinSeven]

there is a difference between nonsense unrealistic for a plot reason and some sci fi explanation. They could have with some creativity made a proper explanation without defeating basic physics entirely taking the sci out of the sci fi.

Honestly, I like your ammo idea and think syth'd ammo and engineering could have crossed over much better than the RNG "you're stuck with this" system we have (and whatever you want to call it for energy weapons, whatever it is that makes it go boom, doesn't have to change the ammo less gameplay).

People are just terrified of the game being ANYTHING like Eve Online though, even in areas where Eve does things pretty cool.

 

[Morbad]

Just give me a Thargoid ship to fly and I'll take a shot at 'ganking' AX weapon users.

 

[Aashenfox]

Just give me a Thargoid ship to fly and I'll take a shot at 'ganking' AX weapon users.

Now that's a thought. I wonder if it will ever happen.

 

[nik_a777]

Ironically Obsidian Ant has claimed that the AX fighters are very effective in PvP.

 

[bigity]

if you plan to fight thargoids, you got enough hull to run from gankers.

Look dude. Don't come in here confusing the issue with facts ok?

 

[bigity]

Presumably the same way you have armour-piercing rounds or not, I guess?

AP rounds are designed to defeat body armor.

They still work against tshirts.


I think that is the point he's making. Blowing holes in living organic things works the same.

 

[bigity]

But not the other way around.

It's also vitally important to remember that it's a game with imaginary aliens in spaceships, so using real-world arguments doesn't necessarily translate - and that goes for my argument as much as yours

It happens the way it happens because that's the way it was written to happen.

It still hurts, despite what you see in the movies. Almost always takes you out of the fight as well, or at least greatly reduces effectiveness.

 

[Monkfish 18]

PayPal bounties

Why not just post the name of commanders who ganked u to this thread or set up an off game notice board. Then ganker hunters can go kill them and and once posted screen shot of defeated ganker they can get paid in real money via PayPal! Good idea?
Work for £150 per hr so having to grind for 2 hours to pay for some ganker idiot who destroyed my ship is annoying. I'd pay £10 bounty for some kid to go and blow him up for me!! Let's make it happen!!

 

[bigity]

The frag cannon is not an AX weapon.

Oh really? Hmm. Can it be engineered?

 

[Stealthie]

Oh really? Hmm. Can it be engineered?

Are we sure we're all talking about the same thing here and not confusing Frag Cannons with Flak Cannons?

It's actually a kind of moot point, though, since the new Flak Cannons aren't considered AX weapons either.
Dunno if the new Flak Cannons can be engineered yet though.
Mine are stuck on an FGS out in Merope and life's too short to fly that around all the engineers.
Suppose I could take them off the ship and then transfer them onto summat like an AspX to see if they can be modded though.

 

[Kaocraft]

AX missiles are silver-capped warheads full of holy water, to fire at vampires spaceships. AX Multis are wooden stake launchers, and the flak cannons blast garlic powder into their swarms of bats. Using any of this on human tech will not be as effective. I'm sure a missile full of water would damage anything you launched it at, but probably not as much as a missile full of explosives and jagged metal.

 

[valbarr]

Wow the tinfoil hattery is strong with this one.

No OP, they are not designed to attacks human ships, think of it as a bottle of Raid Max.

That being said they are still dealing snall damage so you are not defenseless, if you want to fight in an underpowered ship that's not FD's problem, if you want to kill gankers than you probably shouldn't be fighting thargoids in the first place.

TBH op seems like you are trying to find a problem where there isn't one

this is my problem, i stuck some ax weapons on my fully engineered corvette removing my over charged mcs and beam lasers etc, i went thargoid hunting, and some dude in a cutter, decided to attack me, i tried the ax weapons on him, to little affect, i then had little option but to run for it, the guy then proceeded to seek me out every time i entered the system, so i didnt get any thargoid hunting done. shrug. if i had my normal weapons i would not have run. thats all i was attempting to talk about, is that how frontier intends this stuff to work.

 

[ChuckTheIceMan]

It's an excuse why Thargoids will never become a meaningful threat anywhere but the little fish tank in the Pleiades.

Funny looking at this comment today.

 

[Morbad]

Funny looking at this comment today.

Are they a meaningful threat though?

They are still entirely optional encounters, and even having one's hardware stored at starport that's been attacked somehow doesn't stop someone from retrieving it.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Funny looking at this comment today.

Today they mean I can do high-profit bulk trade right next to my "home" station (at the expense of a low-volume high tech economy). Still haven't encountered any outside betas. Scary scary thargy's coming, hardly anything to eat my words over.

 

[Kaocraft]

Funny looking at this comment today.

They never became a meaningful threat even in the Pleiades .

 

[Dr. Nagi]

Someone dug deep to get this thread out again lol.

 

[BDelacroix]

The unfortunate truth. I thought thargoids would give the community a common foe because they are so disruptive. Wouldn't it be great if thargoids worked like powerplay and we had to reclaim the bubble system by system?
Too bad the thargoids are respecting our safe spaces.

I actually kind of thought this was the direction they were going.

 

[Siobhan]

Someone dug deep to get this thread out again lol.

We have a necromancer in our midst!

 

[ZAKALWEINC8876]

It looks like the necromancy (with added synergy help, or something) has worked!

With the new CG action, there could be a multicannon of both human and thargoid whacking. Which is able to be engineered, allegedly.

o7