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Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:32 am
by Mastametz
Only person who might do that is Nightflame
which is why nobody should fly for him
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 5:45 am
by DonKarnage
not 100% sure of this, but doesn't locking your missiles increase the countermeasure resistance?
If it does, how does that actually work? There's a CM resistance for all missiles, and I don't know if the lock% acts like some sort of multiplier.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 6:05 am
by TurkeyXIII
DonKarnage wrote:QUOTE (DonKarnage @ May 3 2012, 03:45 PM) not 100% sure of this, but doesn't locking your missiles increase the countermeasure resistance?
If it does, how does that actually work? There's a CM resistance for all missiles, and I don't know if the lock% acts like some sort of multiplier.
Each missile type has a CM resistance, and it remains the same regardless of lock. The only thing lock alters is how well the missile leads the target.
There are two half-factors that haven't been mentioned in this thread, so I'll bring 'em up because I'm pedantic like that.
- Quickfires have a
very high turn rate, so even when firing unlocked at a laterally moving target, as soon as they go past they'll pull a near-right-angle turn and folllow the target around like a tail
- CMs get a spoof roll against every missile tracking the ship at the time. If you're firing a qf every 0.25 seconds, there's a good chance your whole rack will be spoofed at once. If anything, slow enough for a lock simply so you've still got something to hit him with while his counters rearm.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 5:24 pm
by TheAlaskan
Sheriff Metz wrote:QUOTE (Sheriff Metz @ May 2 2012, 08:32 PM) Only person who might do that is Nightflame
which is why nobody should fly for him
You mean the guy who said he'd win squadgames if he had good pilots?
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 8:19 pm
by Sundance_
I'd like to thank my fellow @NI squaddies for getting this moved from training to gameplay... and almost rants...
damn trolls..... .... you make me so proud!!
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:19 pm
by Mastametz
TheAlaskan wrote:QUOTE (TheAlaskan @ May 3 2012, 10:24 AM) You mean the guy who said he'd win squadgames if he had good pilots?
he said he'd win games if he "had a good squad"
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 11:03 pm
by Bard
Sheriff Metz wrote:QUOTE (Sheriff Metz @ May 2 2012, 09:28 PM) Quickfires are for people with no balls
fact
As frightening as it is for me to say, in this one case, I agree with Mastametz.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 11:30 pm
by Phalanxe
we know it's the end of the world when w/e he's says it's quite close to the truth
Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 6:39 am
by Zwitter
QFs = Immediate Interceptor Ballistic Missiles.
Hence forth referred to as IIBMs, which are very similar to ICBMs, but these are smaller and angrier (meant for murdering interceptors, not continents)
QFs are what immediately make a fighter superior to a same tech level interceptor, regardless of skill.
Dumbfires? Not very dumb - you need to be smart to use those, so $#@! that! They home in, despite being supposedly "Dumb" fire. Those are for murdering bombers or something. I don't give a @#(! about those guys, they're slow and don't kill bases half the time, so $#@! that.
IIBMs, on the other hand, are immensely intelligent on their own.
Guaranteed damage, with or without lock, in about 50% of all battles (this is counting battles without missiles). I've done the math here, it's flawless.
When I'm in my Super Baller Enhanced Belter Fighter (from now on referred to as "SBEBF"), and I have FOUR RACKS OF QUICKFIRE MISSILES, I know I'm going to murder at least 4 things, several of which might actually be enemy ships.
And thus, I once again, prove both myself and my tactics to be superior, this time with MATH.
To recap:
(SBEBF) x 4(IIBM) = 4
BALANCE THE EQUATION WE JUST WENT OVER THIS YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SOLVE THIS PEMDAS ETC.
You all get D's regardless of how well you do on this assignment. I'm not grading on a curve. D for Dumb, as in, you're Dumb cuz you use Dumbfires, as opposed to IIBMs, which kill everything half of the time, all of the time.
Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 11:20 am
by SgtMajor
Zwitter wrote:QUOTE (Zwitter @ May 4 2012, 12:39 AM) QFs = Immediate Interceptor Ballistic Missiles.
Hence forth referred to as IIBMs, which are very similar to ICBMs, but these are smaller and angrier (meant for murdering interceptors, not continents)
QFs are what immediately make a fighter superior to a same tech level interceptor, regardless of skill.
Dumbfires? Not very dumb - you need to be smart to use those, so $#@! that! They home in, despite being supposedly "Dumb" fire. Those are for murdering bombers or something. I don't give a @#(! about those guys, they're slow and don't kill bases half the time, so $#@! that.
IIBMs, on the other hand, are immensely intelligent on their own.
Guaranteed damage, with or without lock, in about 50% of all battles (this is counting battles without missiles). I've done the math here, it's flawless.
When I'm in my Super Baller Enhanced Belter Fighter (from now on referred to as "SBEBF"), and I have FOUR RACKS OF QUICKFIRE MISSILES, I know I'm going to murder at least 4 things, several of which might actually be enemy ships.
And thus, I once again, prove both myself and my tactics to be superior, this time with MATH.
To recap:
(SBEBF) x 4(IIBM) = 4
BALANCE THE EQUATION WE JUST WENT OVER THIS YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SOLVE THIS PEMDAS ETC.
You all get D's regardless of how well you do on this assignment. I'm not grading on a curve. D for Dumb, as in, you're Dumb cuz you use Dumbfires, as opposed to IIBMs, which kill everything half of the time, all of the time.
Delete this post for trolling please
Also yeah QFs: No balls, its a panic weapon, "oh @#(! the int aims better than me, hold that right mouse button tiem"