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Psychosis wrote:QUOTE (Psychosis @ Jan 26 2009, 04:20 AM) valiance, freighters are better at campbreaking then carriers! you put 5 of them through an aleph, followed by ANYTHING and it will survive transit

actually a freighter does sound interesting in formation in front of an bbr, but the only facts a freighter should be attacked is either lonely in adequate range, or its possible cargo of drone in placement

They can ram capships to make them go faster.

I vote for a researchable add-on snowplough.

do any of those really justify the full 1k price though?

add on something like

can probe/prox
or a researchable HYPERBOOSTER and you have a 1k ship

wasnt there some issue with hyperboosts with ramming miners or something...

I'd like to point out that a freighter with a nan has a very viable, if expensive, method of defending itself, at least from a single fig/int: tower drones. A freighter's ability to drop drones is often viewed as a joke, but if that freighter can then nan its own drone, it can defend itself or a base against attackers, or add to the defensive firepower of a capital ship.

As to dropping mines and probes: if you're dropping them near one of your bases (say <5k), then it's a waste of money to use a slow, $1000 ship that might get killed, when you could just as easily send a scout or two out and do the same job at least as quickly. If you want to probe some distant sector, then sending a $1000 ship is almost certainly too risky. If you want to keep a distant aleph proxed, then you should have a nan along anyway, and said scout can do the dropping. None of this necessarily means that you shouldn't give them the ability to drop probes and prox, but it does make me think it won't make them much more worth buying then they are now.

I wonder if the freighter's ability to ram capships is under-used. I've not seen a lot of capships, but I don't think I've ever seen freighters used for ramming like that.

I rammed a Htt with one, it was awesome.

This poll makes me think that we need a capital ship which can be manned by 12 gunners (matching the ammount of possible towers from possible output)

hell, just give me a nan on it and I'm happy

Compellor wrote:QUOTE (Compellor @ Jan 28 2009, 05:34 AM) I wonder if the freighter's ability to ram capships is under-used. I've not seen a lot of capships, but I don't think I've ever seen freighters used for ramming like that.

I've seen it exactly once (in a Fleet Command game). Juckto pushing a missile frigate along, I seem to recall. A very clever trick.