Will the Standoff scoreboards effect ship choice in following Episodes?

Icefire69

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More concrete: Do you consider to use more ship selection, and maybe add the Epee has an alternative Option for the Rapier? Or when you do a a little overhaul of older Episode, maybe a choice between Stilleto or Epee?

Just a little wish/suggestion.

Icefire
 
We will definitely not be adding the Epee as an alternative option. You have to consider, we didn't choose the Stiletto because we think it's a better fighter than the Epee (...we don't). We chose it because it made sense for light fighter squadrons from Gemini to fly Stilettos. Similarly, we won't be adding Wraiths, Morningstars, Broadswords, Ferrets, et cetera, et cetera. There's just no point having a hundred different ships available for the player. It makes our job of producing well-balanced missions incredibly difficult, and it doesn't actually make the game any better.

But, in regards to more ship selection using the currently available ships - yes. You can expect more missions offering you ship choices in the next episode. In one or two situations, it's likely we'll even offer you a choice of three ships in one mission (don't take this as a certain fact, because in the process of mission balancing, we may ultimately decide to stick with only two choices - but if there are three ships to choose, the choice will be between the Rapier, Sabre and Crossbow).
 
there is one thing in WC i will never understand^^

Why can'Ät a Wing Commander not decide which ship he wants to fly?
I mean..he make the Flight Pllan, the Wings ect.^^


WC 1 and WC2 you didn't have such a Commando, so it was all great^^


But in Standoff you have the commando, but you can't chosse your ship... strange isn't it? ^^


Same thing for UE. Why the really important Person? Why not a simpel captain?



I do not want to annoy anyone, I love the game and all ;)
 
Being a Wing Commander implies some freedom, but much more responsibility. Yes, Bradshaw does choose his ship every time... but he's smart enough to never take a Gladius out on patrol or a Stiletto out on a bombing mission.

Bradshaw is free to choose, but whenever his choice would be obvious, the ship selection screen is omitted. That's what we mean when we say ship choices are only presented in the missions where they make sense.
 
Yes, flying a Gladius is like flying a Thunderbolt with no turret and half the shields. It's great for bombing, not so great for gunning down heavies, and crappy for hunting Drakhris/Sathras. The Stiletto is great for chasing down the light fighters, but can't take heavy fire and has trouble shooting down a Gothri or Jalthi quickly. The Rapier can keep up with any Kilrathi fighters, but lacks torpedoes and armor and so cannot perform a bombing role.

Thus, we have Stilettos for patrol/escort, Rapiers and Sabres for space superiority, and Sabres/Gladii/Crossbows for bombing (although the Crossbows make the Gladii obsolete since they are better in everything except for afterburner and gun range).

For those who malign the Stiletto, compare its performance against the Ferret in the simulator. The Stiletto has ITTS, 50% more armor, and an extra pair of heatseekers, while keeping the same speed and agility, which makes it a moderate upgrade over the Ferret.
 
And unlike some WC games I think that Standoff actually really provides the best ships for a given mission if there is no ship selection (well I'd maybe have choosen a Gladius instead of the Stiletto once). The ships might be a bad idea once you realize the true numbers of the enemy afterwards, but then this stuff happens in wars. In reality you are not supposed to reload :-P
 
Great arguments ;)

Very logical indeed.
But than one other Question^^ why does the Wing commander fly a simpel patrol? Okay on the Lionhearth there was't so many fighters and hmmm no the question is bad. I can answer it for myself.


The autopilot don't let you feel the time you really fly. And as I know are the patrol ships, like Ferret and Arrow for long Patrols. So the have more air for the Pilots.
A Epee for Exemepl is a light attack ship, so why should it have more Air than nessecery?


So it is really better if you can't choose your ship for evry mission. I mean in wc3 i fly Patrols with a longbow just for fun. If you really would do that, evry Pilot in your Wing would call you crazy, wouldn't he?
 
Sternenwind said:
But than one other Question^^ why does the Wing commander fly a simpel patrol? Okay on the Lionhearth there was't so many fighters and hmmm no the question is bad. I can answer it for myself.
Well, the Wing Commander is not actually required to fly at all... but as a general rule, a person who leads by setting an example is going to be better regarded by his followers than someone who merely gives out orders. So Bradshaw flies a whole variety of missions, to show that he can fly them.

So it is really better if you can't choose your ship for evry mission. I mean in wc3 i fly Patrols with a longbow just for fun. If you really would do that, evry Pilot in your Wing would call you crazy, wouldn't he?
Well, a Longbow might not be a completely crazy choice (we know the Broadsword is on occasion used for reconnaisance), but yes, in general it's bad to fly the wrong ship. Even if the ship in question is actually better (like if you choose a Rapier instead of the Stiletto for a patrol mission), problems arise if something unexpected comes up. If you took out all the Rapiers on patrol, and a Kilrathi strike force comes out of nowhere to attack the Firekka, you end up with a bunch of Stilettos defending the carrier... which is not an entirely safe situation :p.
 
If a Rapier could handel all the duties of a Patrol ship, than the conferderation would built only rapiers i thin, except the Ferret, stilletto are much cheaper than a rapier ^^


and a longbow fpr a patol... i think that would be a special patrol, not a sipel patrol, if you think about the real fly time, a longbow is just zo slow and would take much longer for a patrol than any other ship^^
 
Large aircraft were used and still are being used for naval patrols (PBY Catalina during WW2, P-3 Orion and Tu-95 Bear today). We see Broadsword used this way in WC2 (first mission in Niven system) equipped with jump trace analyzer.
 
Dominator said:
Large aircraft were used and still are being used for naval patrols (PBY Catalina during WW2, P-3 Orion and Tu-95 Bear today). We see Broadsword used this way in WC2 (first mission in Niven system) equipped with jump trace analyzer.

That's true, however they were used for Recon patrol...not CAP (Combat Air Patrol), It would make horribly bad sense to send a squadron of broadswords on a patrol in which they were likely to encounter enemy fighters, broadswords have been used to recon due to their jump capability but they're not something you would send against the drakhai. :)
 
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