Some thanks for helping you, Friendly capital ship.

[BDelacroix]

So, apparently this bug is still here. Protect the friendly capital ship in a cz and it will shoot at you, too.
No, I didn't hit it. I hadn't even fired yet.
I hope you incompetent capital ship captains lose your silly war.

 

[Lightspeed]

"Rogue General" ... he was aiming for the drone

 

[GraphiteGB]

And whats worse when you actualy select the side that is meant to get rid of the capital ship for 500K bonus it will barely target you at all, allowing you to easy take out the heat relays as they were nerfed in the conflict zone update... And when the Conflict zone is part of a CG it instantly made the CG unbalanced as the other side has to kill 3x as many ships to equal that capital ship running.
so it was increased in pay out and made easier...
It makes alliance and Indis Vs any of the other two powers unbalanced when players enter the combat...

 

[rrobes]

I can't believe after all this time that capital ships are such a disappointment.

Their weapons are useless and they are comically vulnerable.

"Let's put the extremely critical 'Heat Relays' right where they can be shot at with impunity and causes the ship to run away from everything"! "Wonderful idea, let's"!

 

[Bryan K]

I’ve never fought a cap ship before, only ever sided with them in the few CZs I’ve seen them in. I kinda want to try to fight one now.

Too bad it’ll likely be months before I happen to stumble across a CZ that spawns one.

 

[rrobes]

Look for a system where the controlling faction is at war with another faction within the system.

Our player group just finished a war against the controlling faction in Muriges and the CZs were regularly spawning Imperial capital ships.

 

[DNA-Decay]

Yeah I’ve started taking out Cap ships, which should give you some idea how lame they are.

I crawl along the broadside taking out the cannons where the turrets can’t get a shot on me, and then work on the turrets. The NPCs take out the Heat Relays.

The first time I did it, I just accidentally got pushed there after a ram and I just shot whatever was in front of me. The cannon went down and I realised that in all this sea of fireworks - I wasn’t taking hits.

So I did the next one.

Pretty soon I had the flow, and the Fed Capital ship waked out.

It was only afterwards that I asked someone at HQ “How do you actually target the Heat Relays?”



Because at that point I had read the mission instructions to take them out, but I couldn’t find them by selecting “target straight ahead”.
One of the better pilots told me to target them using the Sub Target side panel. Which I think is a bit of a bug. Usually I scroll through subtargets with my HOTAS. “Six clicks Prev to the FSD - Seven to the Power Plant.”

So having to go into a different menu to sub target a thing because my sub target BINDING doesn’t select the sub target for cap ships, well it’s just a bit crap isn’t it? A bit like the Frontier attention to detail we’ve come to know and love.

I wonder if there’s anything else that can’t be sub targeted by the sub target binding, and has to use the menu? Thargoid hearts or their cloaca?

 

[BDelacroix]

Yeah I’ve started taking out Cap ships, which should give you some idea how lame they are.

I crawl along the broadside taking out the cannons where the turrets can’t get a shot on me, and then work on the turrets. The NPCs take out the Heat Relays.

The first time I did it, I just accidentally got pushed there after a ram and I just shot whatever was in front of me. The cannon went down and I realised that in all this sea of fireworks - I wasn’t taking hits.

So I did the next one.

Pretty soon I had the flow, and the Fed Capital ship waked out.

It was only afterwards that I asked someone at HQ “How do you actually target the Heat Relays?”



Because at that point I had read the mission instructions to take them out, but I couldn’t find them by selecting “target straight ahead”.
One of the better pilots told me to target them using the Sub Target side panel. Which I think is a bit of a bug. Usually I scroll through subtargets with my HOTAS. “Six clicks Prev to the FSD - Seven to the Power Plant.”

So having to go into a different menu to sub target a thing because my sub target BINDING doesn’t select the sub target for cap ships, well it’s just a bit crap isn’t it? A bit like the Frontier attention to detail we’ve come to know and love.

I wonder if there’s anything else that can’t be sub targeted by the sub target binding, and has to use the menu? Thargoid hearts or their cloaca?

I think you have to do a similar thing with limpets to free up stuck escape pods on broken mega ships.

 

[DNA-Decay]

I think you have to do a similar thing with limpets to free up stuck escape pods on broken mega ships.

I’d like to think that someone at Frontier has s lore reason for having to use the menu rather than the HUD for sub targets, but the reason will ultimately be that the devs don’t play much Elite in-house.

I wonder how many Frontier employees are Combat Elite?

I bought on of those Elite badges, but I’ve never worn it, and I won’t until I am actually triple elite.
It would be nice if - to be on a livestream your rank had to be displayed.

Master David Braben OBE.
Competent Paige Harvey.
Hmm.