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Twisted Xistance
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Posted - 2004.04.19 01:47:00 -
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I've just been reading up on the coming changes to te combat system, frigates ect and seeing that heavy drones aint going to work I figured out a better solution for you battleshipeers.
Frigates!! a bit more expansive than drones but a hella alot better.
Got problems with elite npc, frigs circling you that you cant hit... no problem at all, just have a frigate guy on standby and when your certain all teh npc's are firing at you call him in to take care of the elite npc frigates and tracking link to you to kil those npc battleships even more effectively. (works better if your frigate guy has an interceptor)
Also For PvP have a few frigates circling your bs, not only can the frigates fire the defenders freeing up your missile launchers for those oh so valuable torpedos but can also tracking disrupt the big dude fireing at you.
I'd like to see a few screenshots posted on the site of battleships using frigates for support :o)
PS: Interceptor pilot here for hire, cost depends on the job, 1 mill and up. Who said you cant put a price on victory 
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DigitalCommunist
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Posted - 2004.04.19 02:14:00 -
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i think that was the whole point, so mixed fleets and good tactics are required..
as for the frigs circling around you shooting defenders, it wont do anything
the defenders wont go for any missles that arent headed at you, and with the speed and weak stats on frigates its best you get in close to web/scramble before you get the sh*t blown out of you at 60km
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Tehel Necrona
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Posted - 2004.04.19 09:06:00 -
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I don't like to call ppl newbs, so i'll call u " miss-informed "
And i'd love to see u try that with the frigs, and watch u blow them up with those torps.
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Archemedes
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Posted - 2004.04.19 12:53:00 -
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And where are we going to get all these frigate pilots? Not everyone is in a corp big enough to have spare pilots with nothing to do at any given moment... in fact a smaller corp might well have NO other combat pilot online at all. So only large corps or alliance fleets can field large groups of frigates (and SMALL groups of frigates aren't too useful)...
Besides, unless they changed defender missiles recently, they won't target a missile aimed at your buddy. So even if you have 10 Kestrels with 4 Defender-filled launchers each orbiting you, they won't do you one bit of good unless the enemy shoots at THEM.
Certainly frigates are good support ships in larger fleets, but if you only have a few ships in a group you probably won't use more than one or two (for initial warp scrambling / webbing). Big alliance battles will probably have a better mix though (assuming lag isn't so bad that frigates can't fly properly) but I don't see it changing small-scale combat much at all.
As for the elite frigate NPCs, 2 sensor boosters, long range guns, and a 60km warp-in will probably kill them just as easily as the old frigates. Interceptors aren't hard to hit at all if they're 50km away MWDing straight at you.  Even with the new changes, a low signature just messes up your tracking and a head-on approach NEEDS no tracking!
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Jiggy
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Posted - 2004.04.19 12:58:00 -
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Why bother with frigates even when the changes come in you can fit a load out with a mixture of sizes of turret to take on different foes without using something as fragile as a frigate.
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Acix
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Posted - 2004.04.19 16:20:00 -
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"Why bother with frigates", because frigates are seriously fun to fly!!!!
Right Twisted.....
SNIGG is now officially open for business. We are a merc corp looking for contracts.
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Aerick Dawn
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Posted - 2004.04.19 17:26:00 -
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Frigates are way fun to fly, matter of fact I'd rather take the good ol' trusty frig out, when you really don't have to risk a BS for your role that you play.
Plus if your in a fleet, and you dont have interceptors/frigs/cruisers complimenting it, that fleet is blind.
You can lose a 100 of those babies, and it doesnt really hurt, well save for your pride.
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Lilan Kahn
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Posted - 2004.04.19 17:34:00 -
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get a webber(or two) and a tacking tech 2 med slot thingi and burn the frigats with your big big battelship
 Originally by: Eris Discordia
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Twisted Xistance
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Posted - 2004.04.20 01:37:00 -
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some of you guys are missing the point.
I Dont think frigateers should be people sacraficing using their battleships in wars in favour of a frigate it defys the whole point. Battleships should be took into combat in force in all their spleandor and with all their big guns. Frigates shouldreally be mercenarys recruited from outside your corp to compliment your battleships, there will be much more kind of role play then and your hit power will not suffer.
These people who go on about setting up their battleships different;y so that they can take out the frigs will die a terrible death at the hands of other corps that have the sense not to 
This way the quality of teh guys flying your support frigates will get better and better as its all these guys will probably do.
Some people fight for wealth and power.
Frigate pilots fight for fun and just because they want to shoot something. I'd like to see some interceptor only merc corps after the patch, that would be VERY cool.
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Darken Two
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Posted - 2004.04.20 04:51:00 -
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The idea in itself is sound, but I dont see the point in hiring mercs to fly around bships most big corps have dedicated frig and interceptor pilots who do the job well. Their losses and expenses are taken care off by the corp. The corp stands to gain there cos the resources stay within the corp instead of having to dole out money everytime they go to fight.
Why dont you just DIE DIE DIE !!!!
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