more congrats and comments

[brusifur]

;D Beyond awesome overall. I am impressed with how stable it all is. I was just wondering if there was any way to play tie fighter on xp. This is the best mod/bastardchild of any game ive ever seen.

Problem - the assault gunboat is still the worst piece of space garbage out there. It used to handle really strange, if anyone else had that problem? It handles better now, but its too slow and has too few guns to be called a "gunboat". This is just a gripe about how the game was made, not the mod. I think the Gboat would be useable if it had 4 cannons, and maybe alot more missiles

I had to skip one early mission, the first with mines. There is a correllian cruiser that has to be killed by some assault transports, and you are flying a gunboat protecting them. The mines are a pregnant dog, but what kills me are the fighters. My teammates seem to get killed pretty early. I dont know. I havent sought out walkthroughs just yet.

[humanbing]

I agree with your points - the Gunboat and the TIE Bomber are fairly underpowered, in my opinion. If I were rebalancing the game, I'd make the Assault Gunboat roughly equivalent to the B Wing in terms of firepower and hit points (perhaps I'd err on the side of greater hit points than the B Wing, and slightly less firepower, because it is an older design).

The TIE Bomber is currently useless. It has about the same missile payload as the TIE Advanced, and it must rely entirely on the missile payload to do any sort of damage in combat. It's way outranked by the Assault Gunboat and even by the A Wing in its payload, and if you add in the fact that it's clunky and slow, it's a surefire way to die quickly in a space battle.

I'd definitely bump up the TIE/B's capacity majorly, perhaps even more than the Assault Gunboat - just because the Assault Gunboat has Ion Cannons too so it's probably designed for more mission versatility (engaging enemy starfighters as well as enemy starships) whereas the TIE/B is geared primarily to anti-ship missions.