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...because they don´t aim correctly. It seems, they always aim too high above my fighter. I think, it is not a problem of the guns: on other ships, the same weapons cut me to pieces
Is there a trick to make them "more intelligent"? Of course, I don´t want undefeatable battleships, but it is boring to shot them down, one after another...

By the way, if you are lucky to come close to the Sharlin, it´s guns can not reach you... Is it really realistic to destroy a Sharlin with a single Aurora?

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Its in the FAQ.

Currently barrage style weapons do not track fighters properly. The present code assumes that $swarm weapons have independent seekers (ie. Hornet missiles). It will be fixed in the SCP version in the future.

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Originally posted by mklopf
By the way, if you are lucky to come close to the Sharlin, it´s guns can not reach you... Is it really realistic to destroy a Sharlin with a single Aurora?

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In FS2 you can't destroy large ships with a fighter, they'll get down to 10% and then stop taking any damage (there are a couple of exceptions but most of the time this is true).

Now I don't know how much the team fiddled with the weapons but most likely that is still in there. Did you actually manage to destroy the sharlin or did you knock it's hit points down a bit, get bored and then assume that if you had the time you could kill it?

Besides JMS actually stated that in B5 like must fight like. If you send out a cruiser without fighter escort it will get owned pretty quickly (look what happens to that Primus in Fall of Night as an example)

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We wanted you to be able to destroy cruisers and warships with fighters....but unless your "cheating" by hiding in some nook...either the warships guns or the fighter escort will get you.

And thats if you want to sit around for a good 10 minutes and blast away at a Sharlin....yay, what fun.

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You are right - it´s no fun. And it is hard enough to come near enough to the Sharlin...

And karajorma, you are also right. I did not destroy it: I once saw a group of four Frazi firing again and again without beeing attacked by the Sharlin. But I closed the mission, because I thougt I would now how it ends... A Hyperion, Nova or Vorchan CAN be destroyed by a group of fighters.

But I am not complaining, B5Project is great!!!!

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But what is fun is sitting inside an omega and shooting at the starfuries as they fly by, and hitting the rotating section when it passes.

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