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Post by havocme on Mar 27, 2011 15:34:58 GMT -5
I understand that.piloting helps the pirate, but how does tactics? Wouldn't stealth be better to avoid the military and getting caught by others?
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Post by slayernz on Mar 27, 2011 20:02:12 GMT -5
Tactics help with blockades and Surveillance ... two good ways to do acts of piracy maybe?
Still, I would have expected Stealth to be just as important too.
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Post by mail2345 on Mar 27, 2011 20:25:04 GMT -5
Tactics helps with landing without being caught and handling mutiny as well.
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Post by spike on Mar 28, 2011 5:14:26 GMT -5
Tactics helps with fighting other ships, hitting them with weapons. It doesn't say so in the skill description but I think that's just an oversight. So Tactics is pretty important to a Pirate, maybe more so that Stealth.
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Post by havocme on Mar 28, 2011 5:24:06 GMT -5
I thought stealth goverened torp hit chance and quickness was gun hit chance?
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Post by spike on Mar 28, 2011 8:03:37 GMT -5
See this thread: By the way - The in-game skill description for Tactics (under Training) doesn't mention its use in ship to ship combat or boarding. I guess it's kind of obvious, but maybe update that text. Working on my 2nd Captain, I gave him no Tactics skill, since the text said it was only needed for Wilderness landings and things like that (it did mention Mutinies). I was wondering why I was doing badly in space ship fights!  |
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Post by Cory Trese on Mar 29, 2011 14:23:25 GMT -5
"Update Tactics Description" is added to the list =)
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Post by havocme on Mar 30, 2011 6:32:04 GMT -5
Stealth skill still governs torp skill along with amount of sails as you "line up" your torp shots from long range, right? If so, how bad is it to fire torps at short range?
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Post by Cory Trese on Mar 30, 2011 16:34:22 GMT -5
hopeless. torps mostly don't art (think Hunt for Red October) at short range.
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Post by havocme on Mar 30, 2011 18:41:01 GMT -5
What's hopeless? And I haven't seen that movie, so I don't get the reference.
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Post by Cory Trese on Mar 30, 2011 19:27:55 GMT -5
Torps at short ranges are very unlikely to arm. Damage approaches zero.
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Post by Cory Trese on Mar 31, 2011 3:58:47 GMT -5
v3.6.5 will say "The TACTICS skill is used by the Captain for Blockades, Surveillance, Boarding, Wilderness Landings and Mutiny."
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Post by spike on Mar 31, 2011 5:08:10 GMT -5
Does Tactics help at all with Guns or Torps (attack or defend), or controlling range? Or just with boarding actions?
What about Warrior? What does that affect? Also just Boarding, or does it affect ranged ship to ship weapons as well?
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Post by oldalchemist on Mar 31, 2011 10:03:18 GMT -5
At boarding range, you ought to be able to arm in the tube and dumb fire torps. It's as crazy as ramming or firing guns at the same range...OK, maybe more crazy, but I'd rather be scrap than have a stinking Big Hat take my Javat Cutter!
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Post by void10111 on May 5, 2011 13:47:07 GMT -5
Just rolled my first Pirate with "Erro" starter ship I just picked up...still unsure what to upgrade, and how to play him..
-----Skot Six
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