Fighters! What are they good for?

Cyrien · #1 September 28th, 2001, 11:26 PM

Anyone ever tried pumping some fighters full of shields and using a missile fleet with the fighters moving in first to soak up the PD fire?

Kadste · #2 September 29th, 2001, 02:13 AM

Cyrien,

Although I have tried this, I usually find it cheaper to create a defense ship and load it up with shields. Fighters die quickly, but the defense ships usually survive combat to be repaired.

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tesco samoa · #3 September 29th, 2001, 04:16 AM

ahh but fighters are cheap to build and require no maintence.

All comes down to balance. Fighters can tip the scale in a battle.

Now if you actually controlled combat fighters value jumps 100 fold.

I use them. A fleet without them can be destroyed quickly.

Jump an enemy with 3000 fighters and see what survives.

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Deathstalker · #4 September 29th, 2001, 04:53 AM

anyone tried the trick with the Heavy Carrier and the shipyard anymore?? (I think it was with a hvy carrier, ship space yard and fighters with kamikaze warheads....use them like 'missiles', use the carrier to build more after each battle)....Tried it a few patches ago, worked ok...Never tried it in strategic combat though...

I also love to build Starbases on wormholes with lots of fighters/launchbays onboard, this works good for planets too, use bases with cargo bays/launch bays to suppliment the planet space (or to leave planet space for those 1 armor riot troops....)

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Askan Nightbringer · #5 September 29th, 2001, 04:55 AM

Actually I think fighters could be made alot better if the range of point defence was alot less (like 1 or 2 or something) or alternatively the fighter's weapon ranges were much greater (like 5 or 6)

Then they could get a shot of before the point defence hit.

Askan

Deathstalker · #6 September 29th, 2001, 04:57 AM

I think that point defense is TOO powerful, I believe that missile rof should be 2, (maybe 1 for crystal torp, too low damage), and pdc should have a rate of fire of 2....but heck that is just me...

fishnetPA · #7 September 29th, 2001, 06:35 PM

There is one minor fighter bug that I have used to get around the limitation of not being able to launch a fighter from a planet and being able to move it in the same turn.
The trick is to launch a fighter the previous turn (only need one), if you did this, then the fighters you launch the current turn CAN move the turn they launch!