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Old 08-30-2008, 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by CaptainGreeenee View Post
i do the rotating camera view thing all the time, and i can still never shoot those pesky things!! i wonder if they could make it that for some ships, you dont even need ramming speed to ram them, cause in reality a war frigate even touching a light sloop would cause it to capsize completely, get sucked underwater from the turbulence, and smashing it into little toothpicks for the war frigates crew to use to clean their teeth.
That much, they have in the game already. Use a light sloop to ram something? 150 damage in pve, 70 damage in svs. But only if you hit exactly mid-ship on the target SvS ship (otherwise scored as a complete miss.)

Use a war frigate to ram? 1,800 damage (maybe more now in svs.) Only have to come within 1/2 mile of where the light sloop is, for it to score as a hit.

I don't know anyone with rank 5 ramming speed. My light sloop has only 2200 hull, though. So a war frigate passing eight to ten boat lengths behind me, yes, will cause me to drop to very-low red level, or sink if I'd been hit by a stray cannonball first.