A Polaris can repair, rearm and refuel a single fighter, but when it is used to hold 2 or 3 fighters, you maybe not have any room left for rearming and repairing materials. Also if you want to use the Polaris as a mobile repair, rearm and refuel platform for multiple fighters, then you probably also must assemble a support fleet to hold and supply fuel, ammo and repairing materials to the Polaris.
Yes, this is why I continue to ask why people are thinking, and theorizing about how to use it as a lame carrier, when it has this other, more powerful use. My guess is for very limited actions it can refuel fighters off its own tanks and the cargo area should be sufficient to store fighter components so one can swap them out when needed, but for long duration, larger operations it seems likely to me one would always want a StarG on site. Could be the tanks are large enough for the Corvette to refuel a squadron several times and just have the tanker appear periodically to refuel the Corvette. The point is, you can fly your short haul craft off this ship. It will fix your ride, rearm it, refuel it, and gives you a bed to respawn in. Your fighter would not however necessarily be safe if left unattended when you are away. That seems to be tied to sleeping quarters so it will be interesting to find what happens with your Hornet if you go to sleep on the 'Vette. If your ship disappears when you go to sleep in any bed, then the beds on the 'Vette become that much more useful. Certainly CIG is drawing a large distinction between short range fighters and long range that include beds.
What would happen if you go asleep on your corvette while its fully crewed with 24 members from different time zones :confused:
For the anti-fighter capability, as well as the speed. This thing is made for battle. The tali is made for bombing. My .02 cents anyways. I like it, but it's not worth if for me, that's for sure.
It feels like they made the polaris for a battle that can't exist. 28 torpedoes? How many Idris do they think will be in one place at the same time? Even if it was just Polaris on Polaris action, how big of a space battle do they expect to have in the game?
But why the torpedos though. As it stands, without torpedos, it would make a great anti fighter platform protecting capital ships and cargo fleets from that a-wing making that suicide run to a shield generator.
Same idea as above. Torpedoes (correct me if I'm wrong) in SC are still physical in that they are poor against shields. You would need to soften the shields up for the torpedoes to be effective, right? So we use the turrets to soften the target? Or the rail guns of the heavier ships (idris) to weaken the shields... so the Polaris can get the kill shot?
Sometimes i get the impression youtube is teaching people to forget how to think and read.Yesterday evening I watched a Polaris Q&A by a local Star Citizen group (C.R.A.S.H.), and...I didn't know if I should now cry or laugh or at least drink a litre of Vodka for curing the brain pain...there REALLY are German dumb shits who are honestly asking, how many NPC you need to operate the Polaris effectively as a singleplayer. I mean: who is asking those questions?? A capital ship, even a small one...as a single player...really....?
By the way, heres the reaction of the team:
:D :D :D
...and I *bet* that those people, who are asking questions like this, have already burned their banking account for buying the Polaris :rolleyes:
Hahaha. Oh dear.Yesterday evening I watched a Polaris Q&A by a local Star Citizen group (C.R.A.S.H.), and...I didn't know if I should now cry or laugh or at least drink a litre of Vodka for curing the brain pain...there REALLY are German dumb shits who are honestly asking, how many NPC you need to operate the Polaris effectively as a singleplayer. I mean: who is asking those questions?? A capital ship, even a small one...as a single player...really....?
By the way, heres the reaction of the team:
:D :D :D
...and I *bet* that those people, who are asking questions like this, have already burned their banking account for buying the Polaris :rolleyes:
I believe an Idris can take more punishment than you think. Remember that current small fighters can have wings shot off or landing gear destroyed and still hobble away.
I don't think you need to worry about that. The day that they pre-released the Polaris for subscribers and concierges, they made 1.5 million dollars. That means that a very large amount of them sold immediately. I would say at least 2,000 of them on that first day and probably at least 2,500 total after the citizencon sales. There will be enough polaris owners in the game to ensure that SC grows to accommodate them. This has been a VERY profitable ship for them so I doubt they will leave you hanging.
Great question. I have no idea. One supposes this involves who can have "permissions" assigned for a ship and how that works, but no news on this yet.
Talis don't include tactical operations stations, so probably cannot have the complete picture in a complex battle. They don't even have a bridge and a single person cockpit is no way to share information.
CIG is on record that there are going to be missiles and torpedoes that specialize in ripping down shields. Just remember that some ships include active systems that destroy torps in fight, so it's not like they will always work, even when countermeasures are defeated. In many situations you could only hit with one out of six torps. 28 is not too many to carry.
