Best defense against Fighters and Carriers

Here's why you are finding it hard to counter fighters in stock: their weapons do as much as ship weapons.

A frigate with 4 DUCs and a fighter with 4 Small DUCs, both at equal tech, will do almost exactly the same damage. Because the fighters are smaller and harder to hit than any other ship type, they're insanely overpowered compared to normal ships.

If you play multiplayer, you'll probably be using balance mod. It has much better balance with most elements of the game, and has been designed with multiplayer in mind.

The AI in stock is also fairly pathetic. This is partly due to bugs and partly because MM didn't focus too much on the AI the first time around. The AI in Balance mod is also better than stock in many ways, so you might want to use BM until Maran releases his .7/.8 Tarsus AI.

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Watch for my mod - codename: Dimensions - coming by Summer, 2007!

I am working on a mod which will basicaly tone fighters down a bit but its slow going as I am any thing but a wiz at coding

I prefer longer space battles so I upped the base strength for armor and shields. That had an unintended effect of lowering the effectivness of fighters slightly. They also got their defenses raised a proportionate amount but they cannot take out the capitals quite as fast to the pt defense grid gets a little more time to riddle them away.

Kerry-

"...I say we must move forward, not backward, upward, but forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
-Kodos for President

the best way to counter fighters is with fighters its that simple.

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Shrike wrote:

When old threads die, they go to forum heaven. I suggest we stop disturbing their peace ---------- See my PBW game stories on http://users.pandora.be/banzaiboy/sevpbw/.

But is fun to wake up the dead

YEAH!