Is a 250 cost for GSs really going to make a difference?

ShadowFox_ · Post by **ShadowFox_** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:59 am

IT HAS MADE A HUGE DIFFERANCE ALREADY. BIOS is not as UBER and more balanced. i can already tell. THANK YOU APOCH! GOOD MOVE! :: CLAP CLAP::

Correct · Post by **Correct** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:51 am

Drizzo wrote:QUOTE (Drizzo @ Jul 9 2008, 05:21 PM) Why not just move them to be free with the purchase of a shipyard and be done with it?

I already suggested utl class for sy [gunships and freighters]

Doubt it's gonna happen.

TurkeyXIII · Post by **TurkeyXIII** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:09 am

Do any factions other than Bios ever buy GS? Would it be used more often if it were in Garrison instead of Starbase?

Correct · Post by **Correct** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:58 am

TurkeyXIII wrote:QUOTE (TurkeyXIII @ Jul 9 2008, 09:09 PM) Do any factions other than Bios ever buy GS? Would it be used more often if it were in Garrison instead of Starbase?

TF Gunship is pretty nice. Rix is sweet. Belts has good hull and fig nans are cheese. It's rare for anyone other than bios, mostly for cost. You have to get advanced tech so you can't up garrison.

If it were in garrison it'd need nerfing because it'd be a lot less cost and a must buy.

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:42 am

Does anybody here remember what Gunships were like int he MS days?

I don't remember skycap turrets, but maybe I'm just going senile?

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Gunships look like bombers with a different loadout used for defence. I think with some nerfing they would make quite nice defencive tech. If the skycaps would be replaced with AC's and the pilot would have a third AC, I think they would be quite nice defencive ships, without the WTF factor of having capship turrets on a non SY ship that looks like a bbr and is cheap to buy.

takingarms1 · Post by **takingarms1** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:24 pm

Skycaps were added by noir. Gunships do not need to be nerfed back to @#(! so that nobody uses them ever again. Its rare to see them now even though they are pretty powerful, for the reasons stated by IB/Correct.

Moving them to SY as basic tech is not a half bad idea, though. It'd be cool to see tacyard a bit more.

Vlymoxyd · Post by **Vlymoxyd** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:29 pm

GS always had skycaps(And I started on 1.0), they aren't noir's idea.

And drizzo, I had the same idea about making making GS a SY tech.

I think I'll post the whole idea in a new thread.

takingarms1 · Post by **takingarms1** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:34 pm

Hrm, I thought before noir buffed them they had AC? Maybe you needed SY in order to mount SC on them then?

Vlymoxyd · Post by **Vlymoxyd** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:00 pm

Nope, SC1 is basic tech. Only giga had GS did't start with SC(just like now). SC1 is a garrison tech.

What noir did was making Skycaps more powerfull by raising their speed.

takingarms1 · Post by **takingarms1** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:03 pm

I stand corrected.