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border skirmish possibilities
First, since bots can heal queens, give us better healing guns/beams to heal our cap ships.
Second, All the cap ships move too fast. Slow em down.
Third, Have the 'heavy assault cruiser' act more like a carrier. Hang back, far away, with a lot more armor, and....
Fourth, Have 'bombers'. NPCs that shoot missiles, flying in centaurs, wraiths, ragnaroks, whatever. They launch from the carriers, come in waves, and blast the poop out of other cap ships. Then they return to the carrier. The carrier comes with a certain amount of them; if they die, they dont regenerate.
I think this might make the BS last a little longer and have more 'oomph'. Just my opinion. Thank you for reading.
Second, All the cap ships move too fast. Slow em down.
Third, Have the 'heavy assault cruiser' act more like a carrier. Hang back, far away, with a lot more armor, and....
Fourth, Have 'bombers'. NPCs that shoot missiles, flying in centaurs, wraiths, ragnaroks, whatever. They launch from the carriers, come in waves, and blast the poop out of other cap ships. Then they return to the carrier. The carrier comes with a certain amount of them; if they die, they dont regenerate.
I think this might make the BS last a little longer and have more 'oomph'. Just my opinion. Thank you for reading.
All things I'm trying to do. Some of them are easier than others right now.
giving HACs a stock of ammo would help with the whole carrier/bomber thing
Gee. Try to land on a HAC while it's being fired on by a Teradon. You'll get your bum burnt to ashes before you even get in line.
Have you tried crashlanding? They are exciting and fun.
actually, that's something - could the repair guns be changed to work like mining beams? Ie target something, toggle on and off? It's annoying to have to actually charge and shoot them at people, and TBH they don't really add much to the game as they currently work...
EDIT - Another (semi-pipe-dream) thing that would be cool:
Since it was mentioned in the ship price thread that you're looking into having some missions provide you with free ships etc, would it be possible at some point to have HACs act like proper carriers, so that if you were on the BS mission, you could have a temporary home there (you could choose whether to spawn there or at your station), and when you spawn there it could give you (ie for free) a choice of a few preset ship configs? Kind of like the menu you get when you spawn at a station now.
For example, it might offer:
1) a vulture/cent (depending faction) with neutrons
2) a faction special with rockets/energy
3) a rag with flares/gems and screamers/swarms
4) a centaur with gems and twin repair guns
If you wanted something specialised you'd still have to go to a station, but it would be cool to have a HAC on each side for the border skirmish and have the basic fighters and bombers (and ammo) available from them. :)
EDIT - Another (semi-pipe-dream) thing that would be cool:
Since it was mentioned in the ship price thread that you're looking into having some missions provide you with free ships etc, would it be possible at some point to have HACs act like proper carriers, so that if you were on the BS mission, you could have a temporary home there (you could choose whether to spawn there or at your station), and when you spawn there it could give you (ie for free) a choice of a few preset ship configs? Kind of like the menu you get when you spawn at a station now.
For example, it might offer:
1) a vulture/cent (depending faction) with neutrons
2) a faction special with rockets/energy
3) a rag with flares/gems and screamers/swarms
4) a centaur with gems and twin repair guns
If you wanted something specialised you'd still have to go to a station, but it would be cool to have a HAC on each side for the border skirmish and have the basic fighters and bombers (and ammo) available from them. :)