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Originally posted by raynor:
I have determined that point defense cannons are pretty worthless against fighters if you play tactical. Just englobe the ship with the point defense and keep attacking it until the PD Cannons are destroyed. I doubt this is how it works. But with my tons and tons of fighters, it's hard to keep track of when the PD cannons fire. They *HAVE* to be firing even if neither my fighters or the ship with the PD cannons move. But sometimes it sure does seem they aren't firing.
That's probably because they aren't firing. They only fire when the ship they are on move or something they can fire at move. So if you surround the ship with pdc's so it can't move and don't move any fighters in range of the pdc's the pdc's won't fire. Silly, but that's the way it is.
As for fighters paying maintainance, I think they should. But not much. Make it an option at game setup and the amount being payed editable in settings.txt.
And I like Bills idea about fighters having to land somewhere the same turn as they are launched. Or maybe the next turn. Maybe an advanced life support system could enable that. It just doesn't make sense to me that you can park some fighters on a warp point or in orbit for 50 years without the pilots dying.