neotoxin wrote:QUOTE (neotoxin @ Oct 27 2008, 09:43 AM) Belter hull difference.
Even with faction modifiers, Belters have a DISADVANTAGE when it comes to dogfighting because of the slow acceleration and poor turn rate. This is why you rarely see people fly Belt Exp because the ints are literally flying bricks. Taking in to light that a lot of pilots can't aim, overboost, and mis-prioritize what to kill, in the wrong hands Belters suck more than trying to win a game w/ IC garr tech, sans gunships.
Buy hull ups and it's a fig is a tank. Sure you might be slow but shooting down an adv fig is like shooting down an reg int for any other faction.
QUOTE Belter econ + cost.
With a 4 minute research time, do you really think that costs should be reduced? I understand if you want to say "make tele/ref/op cons cost the same!" but saying to nerf the cost of everything altogether is completely ridiculous. If you do that, bump the research time down to three minutes because you just took away the one of the major things Belts has going with them
Belters keeping tech.
They shouldn't keep mark II tech. No matter what. If the opposing team has the balls to blow your base (heh) then they should be able to not have to worry about getting their asses munched up by Adv figs/Hvy ints/Omnis.[/quote]
Yes... if a team manages to hold off miner kills, they can buy a @#(! load of techbases in a short amount of time. Add to that the benefit of picking up tech, you have just cut your research time madly. i.e. picking up dumb2 (or stealing it) at the beginning of the game frees up enough money for a new ref, op, or tele. Find dumb 2 gatt2 and you can dumbspike bbrs decently without SUP.
I think something on the order of increasing build time and cost in small amounts may be enough. Or another option is to make research costs more expensive. Pick up what you can, but you suck at research so it's more of a thieve's faction.
belter figs, they don't have shields but who needs shields when you can move like an interceptor!
