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girlyboy wrote:QUOTE (girlyboy @ Apr 21 2010, 10:43 PM) We need to de-nerf XRM AB

You say this, yet have you used XRM even once since CC_06?

Has anyone?

why would you? fbs cost much less to research, have much lower sig, much better accel, cost a third as much per ship, and are equally as effective

I miss 'nix every time I'm on Windows .

Broodwich wrote:QUOTE (Broodwich @ Apr 21 2010, 11:02 PM) why would you? fbs cost much less to research, have much lower sig, much better accel, cost a third as much per ship, and are equally as effective

Yeah, but even when people buy Hvy Bombers and don't buy Adv figs, they don't buy XRM.

Xeretov wrote:QUOTE (Xeretov @ Apr 21 2010, 10:57 PM) You say this, yet have you used XRM even once since CC_06?

Has anyone?

Okay, but how do you explain this very phenomenon? I'm sure it's true that just because no-one uses a tech it doesn't necessarily mean that tech is bad, people might just not use it out of inertia, having gotten too used to other strategies, or it may be that no-one has figured out how to use a particular tech effectively yet (though this probably isn't the case here)... But still, it at least suggests the question of how well-balanced it is, eh?

Plus, how do you get people to use rarely-used technologies more? And if this is not a question you care about, then why not just delete them from the core altogether to free up space for, I dunno, another faction or something?

Xeretov wrote:QUOTE (Xeretov @ Apr 22 2010, 04:57 AM) You say this, yet have you used XRM even once since CC_06?

Has anyone?

Yes, I remember a stupid latenight game, when spidey pushed a con to broods last techbase, spammed sc towers around it and we bombarded the tech with xrm missiles from the cover of the sc drones, while the other team shot down the xrms. Finally we succeeded by attacking from different angles and pushing our sc drones slowly closer to their base...
It was hilarious.

But still figbees are so overpowered, that they will always be the #1 choice.

The weird thing is that people don't buy XRM Cruise for SY either. Honestly I think it's a bit overpowered, but since people don't buy it, it doesn't seem that way.

TBH XRM Cruise is only useful when you got a 10k run

Really? Because it seems to me like being able to hit something with SRM AB1 damage from even 3k would be nice.

XRM cruises phased out and weren't touched for a long time during a period 5-6 years ago when there were an abundance of great whores flying in every game who knew how to shoot down missiles. Not so much now, and I imagine it'd be pretty easy to bring them back into use because people suck so much now.