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Quote from: KDR_11k on May 15, 2012, 07:09:57 AMQuote from: BillyRueben on May 15, 2012, 06:06:37 AMWatch as I take a frigate that costs 5000 credits and ram it into your capital ship that costs 160000, destroying them both.I don't think a frig would be able to one-hit-kill a capital ship, maybe strip the armor around the impact site provided the shields aren't up.I think it all depends on the exact situation.An example similar to that of a frigate taking out a capital ship would be that of the kamikaze planes in WWII that took out aircraft carriers... Granted you had to hit the ship just right (preferably below the water line), but the chance was still there that you could cripple those massive ships with just a wooden plane.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KamikazeEdit: I do agree that it is kinda messed up and probably beyond the scope of this game (seeing as it isn't about macro warfare) to include.
Quote from: BillyRueben on May 15, 2012, 06:06:37 AMWatch as I take a frigate that costs 5000 credits and ram it into your capital ship that costs 160000, destroying them both.I don't think a frig would be able to one-hit-kill a capital ship, maybe strip the armor around the impact site provided the shields aren't up.
Watch as I take a frigate that costs 5000 credits and ram it into your capital ship that costs 160000, destroying them both.
Wouldn't you like to be cost-efficient spending only 3 suicide drones, no crew, to take out a capital that could otherwise obliterate various ships of yours?
Quote from: VikingHaag on May 16, 2012, 06:39:59 AMWouldn't you like to be cost-efficient spending only 3 suicide drones, no crew, to take out a capital that could otherwise obliterate various ships of yours?No. A capital ship should always take a coordinated effort from a fleet to bring down. If I could just blow up a capital ship with three tiny suicide drones, why the hell would anyone field a capital ship to begin with?
An overloaded battleship takes like 15 seconds to come back to operation, in that time, it could eat the 3 torpedoes of a dagger wing, or worse...