Plasma Coil

posted on April 16th, 2011, 7:01 am

Id like to request that the plasma coil ability and fof ability be able to kill fighters, as currently the fighters are impervious.

posted on April 16th, 2011, 7:17 am

Hmm ....
 
  Well I can see where sometimes you might want to intentionally kill the fighters, but consider that sometimes you DON'T care about the fighters and want to kill the other things .  Then the fighters become free damage soakers.

  FoF and Coil both split their damage based on how many targets are present.  If the fighters are targeted - the total damage reaching the "non-free" ships is reduced .

posted on April 16th, 2011, 7:30 am

I understand how it works Boggz...... the point is i want it to kill the fighters, it would be a legitimate counter then to b5s, just think.....


VWOOOOSH!!!!! oh hot damn! my fighters are dead!!! now my b5s cant beat the crap out of everything!

And the world lived in peace and harmony forevermore........

posted on April 16th, 2011, 9:19 pm

I concur with Boggz' points - the reason why it was changed in fact was because of how easily fighters did soak up damage from these AoE weapons

posted on April 16th, 2011, 9:21 pm

I hear it'll be replaced with a Deflector weapon later, so wouldn't a change be kinda pointless?

posted on April 16th, 2011, 10:08 pm

I hear it'll be replaced with a Deflector weapon later, so wouldn't a change be kinda pointless?

Interesting. Got any further sneak peeks for that?

[Tyler]

posted on April 16th, 2011, 10:10 pm

Last edited by Tyler on April 16th, 2011, 10:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I just read the guide, there's a few things there for each race. Like the Federation being more 'non-traditional' later, which I assume to mean a bit more special heavy later.