deca.death wrote:The way I see it: MAML is capital grade medium gun, which is unique in game. It's a general purpose weapon but probably best suited for M6-M7 targets. I originally believed XRM will have real M7 grade gun for every race, but for some reason that hadn't happen. Now we have sort of "half status" with nerfed IBL, mountable by teladi and pirates, and most other M7s have M6 guns in front battery.nap_rz wrote: anyone here feel that the existence of MAML and FPD somewhat confusing each other? I find it odd that smaller ship (I mean corvettes or heavy fighter or even TS back turrets) cannot mount MAML despite of the weapon is an anti corvettes, and not just that, MAML capable turrets on bigger capital ships are also somewhat limited... some corvettes OTOH can mount FPD, FPD also has smaller ware size, longer range and available on corvettes and frigates...
I found it to be a clumsy solution but there is no room for new guns in game (color slots and engine limitations) to make this "right". It would be relatively easy making MAML M6 weapon and buff FPD to be IBL counterpart, but that would push Terran M7 to OPed "most desired" category that any game designer want's to avoid. And allowing all races to use IBL is opposite the "racialized weapons" philosophy XRM is sticking to.
XRM has M7+ frigates that can mount destroyer guns. Those ships are interesting and quite usable /although many have w. energy problems in prolonged fight (sturgeon especially, he's barely useful, but I often hit zero with cyclops too) I'm talking about ships that can mount big guns in front here, like, ocelot , sturgeon and cyclops. M7+ that can mount them only to lateral are not "real" anti cap platforms. Even mighty kvasir (4 front MAML, 6 lateral big caliber) struggles with single xenon C.
I agree that the M/AM should be able to fit on M6 class vessels and maybe buffed a fraction in power to about 5.6 just to keep it more powerful than the commonwealth weapons but maybe slow it down a tad, that way it would be in keeping with how other Terran weapons are balanced...... (and the bullet needs to be made larger for visual reasons)
IBL hasn't been nerfed its just the Pirate version of the PPC....we have had this discussion before, the XRM balance in the lighter power of the IBL against the PPC is that its fitted on only on the Pirate Ships, which tend to be very fast for their class, they are kind of hit and run combination.
The Sturgeon is not really meant to be used on its own, its a Capitol support ship, on its own its kind of pointless, but have you seen what it can do when part of a Boron fleet?....those 10 forward IC are the whole point of the ship, it really drains the enemy cap ships laser generator firepower like no other weapon and slows them down considerably. Ive seen Boron IC equipped ships render a Taipan completly powerless to fire back.....very intersting to watch, just cheat a Megladon and a Taipan and witness the true power of the IC.
Edit. Funny your view on the Kvasir, i have found it with Cyclops to be the best 2 M7+ out there, mainly due to its split PSP coverage it always has 6 PSP's on target, where as say the Cyclops of course has a massive blind spot in its aft quarters.....but i tend to use the M7's under AI control as fleet support ships, so i suppose as a player ship the forward heavy cannon ships may feel better.....after those 2 its either the Agamemnon or the Ocelot.
some conflicts with XRM jobs and war thing....?
![[ external image ]](http://www.strikingsoftware.com/xrmsig.jpg){kind=link}
