Excalibur Pack

Nubarus · Post by **Nubarus** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:57 pm

From post: 103855, Topic: tid=7372, author=Marvin wrote: Perhaps what we really need is and increase in rank before being able to acquire the higher tech military ships!

I don't think that will matter at all since anything above the Avenger is an unresponsive hunk of dog to fly and totally not usefull as a fighter.

and to use one to head to head with capital ships is not needed either since you can blast those to bits with a more agile lighter fighter.
Actually, the escorts are far more dangerous then the Capital ships so you are better off in a more agile fighter anyway.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:35 am

I'm a dog flyer...always been... always will be. Usefullness depends on how you fly... I can assure you.

Nubarus · Post by **Nubarus** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:47 am

In all honesty, with a dog I mean worse then a Starmaster.

My Starmaster truck version is more agile then the Shrike, Preditor and Chimera.

What I do find a bit strange however is that the Mammoth and the Avenger now have the same armor value of 250, but when the same type missiles strikes the Avenger I loose more hull % then when I use the Mammoth.

How is this possible?

Both use the same Equipment and shield class btw.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:20 pm

Probably a programming issue. If you change one part of the program of the game it is hard to track down some times what else will be affected and need to be updated and or changed....

:P

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:08 am

Or maybe the Avenger have softer shields even if you boost them.

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:20 am

I seen this too, and even more weird, a Chimera with 375 armor loosing 60% hull after 1 hit from a Vonari Missile.

[Edited on 3-20-2011 by Avenger]

MMaggio · Post by **MMaggio** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:15 pm

Prolly Vice just drinking too much coffee when he wrote the code!

Post by **Marvin** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:36 pm

I was complaining too, for awhile. Then I sucked it up (stiff upper lip) and tried a few different configurations. Finally came up with one, using the Avenger, that beats even my well-armed and fully-manned Mammoth.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:14 am

I'll see the chimera as soon as I can get it...

Suranis · Post by **Suranis** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:16 pm

What you will have if you halve the time of the Excal lite is that people people will be firing 8 missiles every minute and a half (both excal lites at once) rather than every 3 minutes, and no-one will use the Excal at all as it would be pointless.

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:41 pm

From post: 104709, Topic: tid=7372, author=Suranis wrote:What you will have if you halve the time of the Excal lite is that people people will be firing 8 missiles every minute and a half (both excal lites at once) rather than every 3 minutes, and no-one will use the Excal at all as it would be pointless.

Indeed, hence why the reload time should be the same, 3 minutes for the Lite version.

MMaggio · Post by **MMaggio** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:17 pm

Glad to see we are back on topic! Once again I am in favor of an "Excal Lite" package with four missiles and the same reload time, in addition to the original Excal 8 pack.

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:37 pm

Well, in all fairness, the off topic venture did lead to a bug fix.