Get hails. Get a squad that covers you. Have steady aim. Double your old ship’s score.
I have stopped trying. I can’t stand long-range frigates, I literally wanted to claw my own eyeballs out whilst trying to play them. The whole sniper play style just isn’t for me and it’s a shame it is even required to get to the Engineers further down the tree. The two classes and play styles are so far apart, that it makes very little sense that synergy is required on LRF in order to fly the Engis.
I’ve resorted to saving up all free synergy/never spending it and applying it all to the ships in that tree so that I never have to fly a single LRF again.
I have stopped trying. I can’t stand long-range frigates, I literally wanted to claw my own eyeballs out whilst trying to play them. The whole sniper play style just isn’t for me and it’s a shame it is even required to get to the Engineers further down the tree. The two classes and play styles are so far apart, that it makes very little sense that synergy is required on LRF in order to fly the Engis.
I’ve resorted to saving up all free synergy/never spending it and applying it all to the ships in that tree so that I never have to fly a single LRF again.
That’s because you’re playing Empire, I already explained this to you. Fly Jericho.
I think the LR should be more like the Gunship, and the Gunship more like… well, something else.
If people want to sit back and snipe with an LR… they should frankly be kicked from the group. But if they want to do that let them take the long-range weapons and be done with it. Remove the “sniper” weapons and give the LR something that will make it valuable - something that lets it get up close and brawl. It should, like the gunship, be a glass-jawed bruiser; able to dish out a lot of pain, but not take it in return.
LRF does nothing but blow ships up and camp at Stations/Beacons. Blow the right ships and camp at the right station/beacon, and you are as good as ever.
I think the LR should be more like the Gunship, and the Gunship more like… well, something else.
If people want to sit back and snipe with an LR… they should frankly be kicked from the group. But if they want to do that let them take the long-range weapons and be done with it. Remove the “sniper” weapons and give the LR something that will make it valuable - something that lets it get up close and brawl. It should, like the gunship, be a glass-jawed bruiser; able to dish out a lot of pain, but not take it in return.
I’ll go post this idea somewhere…
I’m using my LRF as gunship too, kinda along your lines, bring EM missiles and throw em at beacons/ stations when needed. An ECM with blue.experimental weapon is nightmare though.
LRF does nothing but blow ships up and camp at Stations/Beacons. Blow the right ships and camp at the right station/beacon, and you are as good as ever.
