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MadwoG · 28 Feb 2014, 12:25

Now this sorta works if my other idea is implemented in..
http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=200293

With 6 fleets of course, everyone is thinking.. well whats the use of that?

Well, in the 13 years ive played this game, i've not made heads or tails of how the hell fighters, can just jump into a war zone with no support?

This bothers me, who in their right mind would design a fleet that cannot support itself?

How about we re-structure the fleets to how they should be..

Battle Star - controls the fleet
Battle Ship - the grunt of the fleet
Destroyers - protect the battleships
Frigates - Protect the destroyers from light assault groups
Corvettes - Also known as bombers etc, medium class fighters multi designed to take out either fighters or bomb frigates and destroyers..
Fighters - Designed to kill other fighters.. not enough fire power to actually do any damage to any heavy class vessel.. but carried enough missiles etc to take out frigates and destroyers and get into dog fights with other fi and co class ships..

So the concept is, each fleet requires a battlestar..
so tech would start there, and work its way down to fighters..
battleships hold fighters in their launch bays.. and battleships obviously would have capacities.. as would destroyers and frigates..

so why dont we capitalise on this idea and say each fleet requires a battlestar.. you need to fill all your fleets with 1 battlestar before you can build battleships.. you need to build battleships to be able to hold fighters..
then you are bound by limitations of the battleships to how many fighters you have.. until you build more battle ships.. however.. battleships target destroyers and other battleships.. so you will need destroyers guarding your battleships.. and frigates guarding your destroyers..

For every battleship you must build two destroyers to defend it.. for every destoyer you need 4 frigates to defend it.. and fi/co is stocked up as required..

This would make more sense than the current regime of fleet make ups..

then change all eta's to be stock standard.. 8hrs after launch is about right... after full travel tech has been researched.