john chapman

Hmm i'll try the Venator. Could be that the frigates targeted the lancers then. I'll play tonight and see what happened.



*edit*
Sure enough my friend was targeting the lancer. The sneaky bastard managed the tie bombers attacking my tectors while making it appear that it was killing the lancers

Ok I understand the cannon reasons but is there really that many hardpoints on the ships. if it were shooing that many lasers the lag would be huge upon building a executor.
Without a hangar though the tector is dead in space against the rebel who probably has its equivilant in fighters and frigates. Most of the time when i built it it hammers the frigates but is sitting duck for the fighters/bombers who chewed up my lancers. Its recoverable but I lose the initiative. Some of the impstars don't spawn many fighters either though. In battle I always noticed the rebel fighters fromt ship spawns are usually more then my own ship spawns.

-As for the factory idea i mean an actually buildable structure like say with KDY a icon that constructs the KDY structures.

-Skirmishes do last a long time in multiplayer and from the limited ai battles I've played