I don't know if this has been stated before but oh well.

Over the past week i've enjoyed many Capital Ship battles however there is something missing. No military force would send out just one ship with fighter Escorts, you are insured a loose of that ship!

In order to spice up the Battles in Sedina b-8 and add some nice content to the game, I believe that a two Escorts of some kind would expand the battle and also allow it to be a better and better experience as Vendetta-Online grows and we start seeing 500 to 1000 players online.

Each Capital Ship would have two Escorts, each modeled to each nations particular style, these ships would serve as automatic protection, and also they would add some more fire into the mix.

Also these ships could be used ofr patrols near the edges of nation space, such as four of these ships traveling in the Deneb region of space to protect against Serco invasion, I'll finish the rest of this later, as now it is dinner time!

there could be a flotilla of 5 Moths with AGTs escorting each cap ship. i think that would be a sight to see.

From what I've heard (I think a1kon posted this) the cap ship triad in Sedina B-8 is only a test for them. Everyone seems to think 'this' is what the end scenerio is. The Serco cap that roams the sercoville has tons of escorts, I'm sure we'll see them soon™ enough.

I think they have something sneaky up there sleeves...like they may update the in-progress page without telling us...

GO DEVS!

kernel.panic

Correct, the cap ships visiting Sedina IS only a test. It's also meant to be fun. Let us not read too much into it. The caps ships will probably continue their visits for awhile longer, but expect some behavioral changes and some other twists. I'm excited about it.

...maybe I'm missing the point, here, but isn't EVERYTHING "only a test"? Now, I like revolution as much as anyone else here, but a little evolution never hurt anyone.. New content often seems to flucuate wildly between revolutionary new things, and evolutionary tweaking.. All I'm trying to say is that I don't mind if the devs make some small sacrifice to long-term content to the betterment of short-term content... (because, in the end, isn't *everything* short-term?)

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If you have not visited Sol II when the Nemisis is up you should Chikira, they already have the escorts down, they fly 3 squads of SVG's and 3 swads of SCProms in formations around the Nemisis.

I think each cap ship should have an escort of several nation-specific fighters to provide fighter defense, with only a handful of anti-fighter turrets mounted on the ship itself. Fighter defense should be left to fighters; cap ships should only have to worry about cap ships.

Yes, I agree with blacksabre, but I think that different capital ships should be outfitted with different weaponry. Not neccicarily even having a different mesh for different ship loadouts, but simply have different guns on different capital ships.

Fri 11:23AM johnhawl218
If you have not visited Sol II when the Nemisis is up you should Chikira, they already have the escorts down, they fly 3 squads of SVG's and 3 swads of SCProms in formations around the Nemisis.

But are these ships in battle? No these ships need to be in battle, the current one big ship is entertaining for awhile but overall it gets boring and repeative without some kind of randomness, and a sense of Reality as no large military force will send out just one battleship without any escort.

NPC escorts are nice and all, but I prefer the massive battles that ensue when two of the cap ships reach B-8 with most or all of their armor and turrets intact, and with a large group of defenders/gunners for each side. Rare as this setup may be, it produces the most memorable and intense battles that I have ever seen.

On that note, the Battle for B-8 tonight was fantastic. It was great to see everyone working together to foil the Hive. On that note, it would seem that the Hive has lost some ground against us. There really isn't anything in the Hive's arsenal that truly strikes fear into players' hearts anymore. Maybe the Furies will change that.

Actually I find the Arklans to be very scary. Not because of their weapons but because someone may elect to gank me while i'm spending 10 minutes killing the Arklan. :D

mybee it would be scarier if the queens had turrets like tha cap ships do

Right now the bots are so easy because we have been fighting them for so long and know how the AI works.

maybe an increased num,ber of bots and escorts would make the cap ship battle challenging