there is not a single viable T2 B2 to advance to

Black ops . . . /thread

Black ops . . . /thread

Marauders . . . //thread//

Marauders are actually a viable upgrade. One can argue the cost is questionable & that they could be better designed, but the ship itself is a decent step from their T1 cousins now.
They also don't have poor resists, the T1 BS have identical resists to all T1 ships. Only the T2 ships have lower resists.
Sig & Speed tanking can be countered by TP's & Webs. So when you need 'in your face' brute force tanking, the BS does it.
They also have huge range when you consider snipers, large DPS compared in most cases to other subcaps.

So.... that's why people use them.

They were buffed? When?

No - how would I? I'm a noob.

On paper, they look like the T1 BS - just with worse DPS and EHP and the ability to fit a very short range portal limited to few ships.

What's that great black ops stuff you do?

You're a noob, never experienced battleship stuff (mauraders, null anomaly ratting, black ops, incursions, etc) yet you say they are bad?

Here's the wiki, start reading it and come back when you're a tad bit more educated.

So what's the point?

You're wrong. I never said they were bad, I asked why people fly them.

So BS align, move and warp the slowest of all subcaps, they have have poor resists, a huge sig radius, are outtanked by pretty much everything when factoring in sigtanking, speedtanking etc, their guns have have terrible signature resolutions, track shockingly bad, there is not a single viable T2 BS to advance to, there's no single cov ops variant available despite all the other drawbacks and they're the most skill intense and most expensive T1 subcaps there are.

So what's the point?

Those are facts that I came up with due to reading about BS which made me wonder why people fly them before I invest time and money into flying them.

Here's the Wiki, it might help.

...but thanks for letting me take part in your rich experience - it has proven to be very constructive for this thread :).

So BS align, move and warp the slowest of all subcaps, they have have poor resists, a huge sig radius, are outtanked by pretty much everything when factoring in sigtanking, speedtanking etc, their guns have have terrible signature resolutions, track shockingly bad, there is not a single viable T2 B2 to advance to, there's no single cov ops variant available despite all the other drawbacks and they're the most skill intense and most expensive T1 subcaps there are.

So what's the point?

Those are facts that I came up with due to reading about BS which made me wonder why people fly them before I invest time and money into flying them.

I don't know how you define constructive . . . but ok I guess.

It was constructive because your argument in your original post to this thread appeared to claim that the power of black ops itself were enough to justify all the weaknesses to the BS class as a whole as indicated by your 'end thread' comment.

You claimed I said they were bad, which I never did - I stated some facts about BS I've researched which discouraged me from training for them.

I'd call your posts very constructive due to the impressive display of how people contributing nothing useful to a question and venting nothing but hot air make fools of themselves.

What you mean trolling? Yea that's what we do here in General Discussion. If you want a serious answer go ask in the new player forums.

They're only useful for two things. Shooting red squares and as disposable fleet ships due to insurance and range projection.