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The extra turbo thrust on the greyhound was a barely noticeable improvement. It remains that the greyhound is still uniquely suited to chasing rags and other attack craft merely because it combines good speed with 45/s drain and a heavy port for a megaposi.
You could buff the speed or nerf the speed, change the small port it wouldnt matter, no other ship can dish out more than 1 battery of damage against infiniturbo ships except the hound and that's what makes it special.
You could buff the speed or nerf the speed, change the small port it wouldnt matter, no other ship can dish out more than 1 battery of damage against infiniturbo ships except the hound and that's what makes it special.
"Corvus cannot become a pirate faction - they have been designated port of last resort for the game and cannot exclude any player ever."
Um, yes they certainly can exclude people. Who is it who needs Corvus? Not the guys with high native standing (or high standing anywhere, for that matter). The people who need Corvus are the people with poor standings elsewhere. Set it up so that losing faction with the nations raises faction with Corvus just enough to hit Disliked. (And note that nowadays you can actually dock with Corvus even while KOS; assuming you can get past the guards that is.)
And anyway, worst case, the Corvus mutual exclusion could just be set up to not quite push you into Hated status. Then it isn't "excluding" anybody from the basic services, while still preventing people with high national standings from accessing high-end Cortech (and people with high Corvus standing from accessing high-end national gear).
Um, yes they certainly can exclude people. Who is it who needs Corvus? Not the guys with high native standing (or high standing anywhere, for that matter). The people who need Corvus are the people with poor standings elsewhere. Set it up so that losing faction with the nations raises faction with Corvus just enough to hit Disliked. (And note that nowadays you can actually dock with Corvus even while KOS; assuming you can get past the guards that is.)
And anyway, worst case, the Corvus mutual exclusion could just be set up to not quite push you into Hated status. Then it isn't "excluding" anybody from the basic services, while still preventing people with high national standings from accessing high-end Cortech (and people with high Corvus standing from accessing high-end national gear).
+1 Rin
Fine, make the hound griefer only.
At the same time buff the atlas x to 224 m/s , paint a big red cross on it and let Lecter chase it all over space.
Problem solved.
At the same time buff the atlas x to 224 m/s , paint a big red cross on it and let Lecter chase it all over space.
Problem solved.
Can you get any more stupidly polemical there ecka mate. It's in the backstory that the UIT and Corvus are at odds, perhaps even moreso than Axia and Valent. Mutual exclusivity is about factions and the storyline, not about your stupid political agenda of carebears vs griefers.
At the same time buff the atlas x to 224 m/s
You forgot +100 turbo thrust. It needs more of that too.
You forgot +100 turbo thrust. It needs more of that too.
WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE STORYLINE. Vo is about the gameplay, not continously inserting stupid fucking backstory justifications.
There's a backstory? Isn't VO about grinding your way up to have the support equipment- XC, HD & HE, MP's and so forth in order to build a larger cargo ship so that you can use the larger cargo ship to build another cargo ship even faster?
I'm sorry, that doesn't really sound like something that needs much backstory. :p
I'm sorry, that doesn't really sound like something that needs much backstory. :p
Mutual exclusivity isn't about the backstory at all. It's about forcing people to make tradeoffs and providing incentive for eventual smuggling and black market activities, while also encouraging conflict between the different sides. The backstory is just a convenient excuse.
The X is not a chaser, and has a ton of cargo and a fucking turret. Despite that, it still has a good turbo accelelation ratio of 19.37 (9200Kg vs. 475N turbo thrust).
The damn Valk IDF, which is one of the best combat ships in the game, is one hell of a chaser with a turbo accelelation ratio of 12.34 (2900Kg vs. 235N turbo thrust).
The Hound, far from being ridiculously OP at chasing, now clocks in at a turbo accelelation ratio of 11.11 (5000Kg vs. 450N of new turbo thrust). Yes, it arguably has a chasing edge on the IDF in that it can infiniboost and generate a trickle of juice for energy weapons at the same time. That makes sense seeing as how chasing fleeing cargo ships is the Hound's one and only dedicated role (that a bunch of non-pirate players currently use it as a fast transit ship is as irrelevant as the fact that lots of pirates like the valk as a pirate ship rather than an Itani combat ship).
And after the AnniVult debacle, I don't want to hear any whining about how the Camo Hound must every and always be available to LTS. Everything can be changed, apparently, and there's a great reason for the Hound becoming an exclusive ship for a Grey/Pirate faction. I couldn't care less whether that's Corvus or something new.
The damn Valk IDF, which is one of the best combat ships in the game, is one hell of a chaser with a turbo accelelation ratio of 12.34 (2900Kg vs. 235N turbo thrust).
The Hound, far from being ridiculously OP at chasing, now clocks in at a turbo accelelation ratio of 11.11 (5000Kg vs. 450N of new turbo thrust). Yes, it arguably has a chasing edge on the IDF in that it can infiniboost and generate a trickle of juice for energy weapons at the same time. That makes sense seeing as how chasing fleeing cargo ships is the Hound's one and only dedicated role (that a bunch of non-pirate players currently use it as a fast transit ship is as irrelevant as the fact that lots of pirates like the valk as a pirate ship rather than an Itani combat ship).
And after the AnniVult debacle, I don't want to hear any whining about how the Camo Hound must every and always be available to LTS. Everything can be changed, apparently, and there's a great reason for the Hound becoming an exclusive ship for a Grey/Pirate faction. I couldn't care less whether that's Corvus or something new.
Oh you're comparing ships with no weapons again, cute!
Comparing empty ships is the most sensical way to make a fair baseline comparison. Other fair ways include comparing ships with an identical weight loads. That's not as fair however, because some ships are specifically designed to carry more load where some ships are supposed to remain light and be penalized if they load weapons that are too heavy for their intended role.