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didnt play it... hearsay requested i dont waste my time.

go back to oldies = tie fighter and xwing

naturally being who I am, i enjoyd tie so much more. I would join the rebellion undoubtedl just because of my ideals but i really enjoy flying the more daring fighter. though given time and funding i might design my own line of space superiority or interceptor type fighter.

actually tie/lns had no shielding whatsoever. but you dont want a tie/d even a mark three cause theyre giant targets... ******** that. the reason you fly a tie and not an xwing is because youre good enough to not need extra protection. (which few are) this is why i would fly an tie interceptor. 10 point sublight speed, faster than any rebellion fighter. maneuvrability is outstanding for that speed. cannons are rebuilt for higher firepower.

Now personally I would have a tie interceptor rebuilt with a hyperdrive but thats prolly the only major mod you'd notice. id prolly go without shields if i can keep up the top speed. if not then ill drop into an incom designed fighter. or maybe an awing.

give me a Ywing anyday i like the desgin but in the games the y wing doesnt seem to go very fast i wonder if thats a desgin flaw

actually i made a mistake, a standard tie moves at 10 sublight units, a tie interceptor is a 11, and an awing is at 12.

awing has low to moderate shielding and concussion missiles. also the guns on the thing have nice 20degree targetting which i talked about a while ago.

e-wing? not my style. they're better suited as a spacesuperiority and vanguard type class fighter. plus theyre unrealistic as ********. theyre stacked with weapons and armor and still are highly maneuverable and almost as fast as an a-wing... bullshit

the y-wing...sucks. its a powerhouse but i wouldnt fly it. im definately an interceptor type of person. the y-wing is slow in games cause it IS slow. It moves at a whopping 7 sublight units. also they arent so heavily armoured as you might think because the armor is bulky and gets in the way of engineers. so most rebel engineers have taken off a lot of the body armor plates and insteas beefed up the shields. nice trade off but still. the benefits of the y-wing are in its weaponry.

I am simply not interested in bombing things though ion cannons can be useful. there is not a single starfighter design i dont like. some are jsut better for me than others.

dont trust video games when it comes to speed and such about fighters. there are programming restrictions to make things less realistic. ie having small areas to fly in means beef down speed so you dont travers the arena in less than a minute.... a-wings are fast...very fast. the naboo starfighter is gay and wasn't even built into the spectrum of fighter ability. its like how they made up the planet of naboo to have a different planet to play with for episode one. the naboo starfighter then naturally is designed not to be realistic but to be as fun to play as other starfighters. the rebellions best fighters werent the y-wings at the beginning, theyre were literally the only star fighters. which works out cause theyre were the work horse of the rebellion until incom could secret away the x-wing designs for production. the y-wing is a multiple profile star fighter which is why they are used a lot but the best offered is the x-wing. every other ship designed is either unrealistic or specialized for mission profiles.

except easy to blow out of the sky... hahaha

depends on what you are looking for in a fighter. each has its own uses. i value speed and maneuvrability. some may desire weaponry.

we should make a thread or talk about this in the hangar about who would fly what. or if they don't know much about fighters say what they want in a fighter and we hook them up.

it all depends on what type of mission your on...