Basically, a Raptor adept at taking on them enemies.

Stats:
Cargo: 6 cu
Ports: 3small
Weight: 2,500kg
Armor: 3500
Licence Requirements: 6/8/0/3/0
Additional Requirements: 600+ standing with TPG
Thrust: (I'll leave that to you)
Max Speed: 65 m/s
Turbo Max Speed: 250 m/s
Acceleration: 50 m/s
Infinite Turbo: Yes (with a Fast Charge or an Ultra Charge power cell)

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A special Raptor designed on lightness and speed. Good for chasing enemies around.

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I'll happily take your comments and suggestions and incorporate them into the stats for the developers (if they bother to look at this thread).

No fix for that flare magnet will be worth it until the size is reduced... a light fighter that is 17 meters (55 feet 9 inches)

Bigger than...

Centaur: 16m

Ship dimensions were never one of Guild's strong points...

What you describe sounds like some sort of small drone, which the raptor is most certainly not. I stick by my suggestion of giving the Raptor two large ports instead of smalls, and leaving all else as-is.

+1 to giving the raptor L ports

Honestly... yeah. give it two large ports and maybe tweak the armor and make it a "light" Heavy fighter.

How does one small port and one large port sound?

2 large ports or bust.

Best way to fix the Raptor is to fix Storm Radar Extenders so they no longer work from cargo holds. Force pilots to give up a weapon port for a SRE and the Raptor becomes useful.

/2c

Why does everyone seem to forget that the Raptor sucks because of it's slow strafe speed *combined* with it's large profile?

Even a Centaur can strafe away from rockets faster...

Then why not make this particular Raptor strafe faster and less large like say, 15m or 14m? By the way, any ideas on the thrust? I'm completely clueless on that part.

Not that the other suggestions are not good, but the raptor could benefit from a 3rd small port more than it would 2 large.

Right now, there is only one combat focused 3 port interceptor, and it belongs to the itani faction. By making the raptor 3 port, it means you can run a dual flare+energy or single flare+dual energy setup. You could alternatively equip a scanner in one port and still have 2 weapon ports.

+1 to 2L ports
Already two options to select from for 3s (Marauders and Valks)

Here's two suggestions for the 2L ports already:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/26472

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21010

Another 3s suggestion:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/20913

hell.. why not 4s?:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/22410

For more, I'd check out the post:
And a "Comprehensive list of Raptor suggestions"
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/26476

-my 2c

Marauder is not an interceptor, raptor is.

I suggested something like this ages ago:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21010

Infiniboost at 25m/s faster than anything else is most certainly a no-go. I'm all for a ship that's faster than anything current, but it needs to run out of juice faster as well. My idea is that it and the Greyhound could each catch and destroy the other under different sets of reasonably common conditions.

All the Raptor suggestions are entirely moot until the abysmal strafe is solved. Until then, whatever you do you still have a turkey of a ship. It might be a very well armed turkey, it might do absolutely everything under the sun but it only takes a noob with the minimal brains needed to keep on strafing and shooting and that turkey's dead.

LOL did no one else see this?

"Armor: 3500"?

Three Sunnie hits and you're GONE. talk about useless.

The raptor could also have its armor heavily upgraded to help withstand the extra hits it tends to take turning it into something closer to a medium/heavy fighter craft. 2L ports would also support this particular configuration.

Armor increased -> 30,000
turbo speed reduced -> 200
2 large ports Grid power 30 - allows dual annie etc
also a 2small port version with 40 grid
(2 ports limits the "abuse" possible )

Ship mass and thrust should all be tripled to retain current proformance while yelding more appropriate numbers....

As I say in every Craptor+ post, something that HUGE cannot be a light fighter, but aq HEAVY/Assault one...

Remove its sensors, give it 2L ports and more armour and we're good.