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Fed frigates or fighter breach immunity, please
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I've got a Fed toon. And a KDF one.
My KDF has a Fleet Vo'Quv with Birds of Prey, and it's great with the recent carrier changes.
My Fed has a Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier. However, with the recent carrier changes, it's simply tedious to play. I've actually retired it for an Odyssey.
Why? The rate at which fighters die. I never have them all alive all at once, and none have made it past rank 2 or 3. I mean, in an eSTF, if a frickin' probe explodes, I lose at least one fighter. If a cube explodes, I can count on almost all of my fighters being gone.
I have to recall them at 30-50% (sometimes more) to get them away from explosions, because they take an eternity to process the command and follow it.
The only way for me to keep fighters alive is to keep them recalled 2/3 of the time... Which defeats the purpose of having them.
Really, fighters (all carrier pets, ideally) should be immune to warp core breach explosion damage. Otherwise, more frigates really need to be offered.
My KDF has a Fleet Vo'Quv with Birds of Prey, and it's great with the recent carrier changes.
My Fed has a Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier. However, with the recent carrier changes, it's simply tedious to play. I've actually retired it for an Odyssey.
Why? The rate at which fighters die. I never have them all alive all at once, and none have made it past rank 2 or 3. I mean, in an eSTF, if a frickin' probe explodes, I lose at least one fighter. If a cube explodes, I can count on almost all of my fighters being gone.
I have to recall them at 30-50% (sometimes more) to get them away from explosions, because they take an eternity to process the command and follow it.
The only way for me to keep fighters alive is to keep them recalled 2/3 of the time... Which defeats the purpose of having them.
Really, fighters (all carrier pets, ideally) should be immune to warp core breach explosion damage. Otherwise, more frigates really need to be offered.
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Take advantage of the fighters' reload time by balancing Aux Power and equipping Reload Flight Deck Officers to turn your carrier into a Fighter Conveyor Belt. However, if that doesn't really satisfy you or ruins your build, try getting Delta Flyers / Danube Runabouts in at least 1 hangar to help support your fighters, since they are much more resilient than the Fighters.
1. Increase your threat lvl and do not order them to attack until your carrier hit the target 1st. Otherwise, they would just be killed. I launch my fighters but use recall command to keep them in the hangar. I only order them to attack when the target attack me or other targets.
2. Before the target explodes, recall your fighters.
Fighters are for max dps - 12x fighters = 12 torpedos,. That is a hell of dmg.
... Way to not read the original post.
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The only thing I would change is to have fighters level a little faster than frigates and shuttles.
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That would be great too. Having them stay 7km-10km away would be great. They could even balance it by having them do a little less damage because they would be out of most of the danger.
Wasn't really trying to reply to the OP. Just wanna say why fighters are easy to be killed. Hell, even frigates got busted in warpcore breach if they were near. The only reason you don't see the frigates often die due to the breach because of their long strafe run and wide turn. Fighters got tighter turn and shorter strafe run, so they tend to stay close to the targets. Hence, got killed in the explosion.
There's a huge space between immortal and dead because they weren't recalled 2 minutes ago.
Really, it is an AI issue. But since the devs clearly can't overcome whatever the hurdle is, it seems like a fair compromise to simply make them NOT die with whatever they're attacking.
Pets are far to strong as it is at the moment and if an entire team is carriers with pets, well need I say more. CHEESE !
Now where did I leave that crutch ?!?!?!?!
Also, I think that before this issue is addressed, the habit of pets to fly across the map randomly needs to be fixed.
Yeah that one drives me crazy. Also when my pets don't full impulse when I do and then get left way behind on the map. They often don't catch up to me, so I have to yank my hangar, re-equip it, and then re-launch them. Nasty, nasty.
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