Can the lancaster every become a legitimate basing craft?

[WiseCherub]

Zerzera showed some of us the new lancaster ship settings for ?go base.

Sorry Zerzera, I don't like them, the default lancaster settings are fine in my opinion. Why I don't like them? Well the fire rate is too quick, and could mess up the tight areas in base ruining other facets of a base match.

I think ships have a inertia setting right? I wish the lancaster had a bit less inertia, so it can be a tiny bit better for dodging.

1 reason I like the warbird the most it is the most manevurable ship. Terrier is fastest, but its inertia is hard to control or get use to... i can but then it feels weird switching to terrier or wb.

A lancaster is best a taking out spiders from a distance, and of course spiders dominate at close range.

I disagree with you Randedl, the Lancaster is not an obsolete ship. Lancaster can be quite deadly if you know how to boost your bullets by using rock or wall bounces. I might dedicate some of my play time in the near future to prove my point about this; I know words are cheap.

[PaulOakenfold]

There isn't an actual setting called "inertia"... depending on how fast the ship is going alters how easy it is to push it the opposite way. That and the acceleration? A lanc has slow acceleration compared to a terr and a wb, making it harder to "dodge" and "maneuver" ESPECIALLY if it's at its top speed.

[Zerzera]

Sorry Zerzera, I don't like them, the default lancaster settings are fine in my opinion. Why I don't like them? Well the fire rate is too quick, and could mess up the tight areas in base ruining other facets of a base match.

The lancaster as it is in public is a fine ship. When you set no goal other than plucking some attackers out of the air from a safe hiding.
In basing it's a different story. Here you have 8v8 basing, with tuned lineups.
Where in public you might have uneven teams, a bigger difference in skills or players, and unbalanced lineups, it doesn't really matter if a few ships are not into attacking or defending base.

If you want to win a timed game, you will have to pick the best lineup possible.
When you don't have someone that can play another ship than spider, you will have to go for a 5-spider lineup.
When a ship is too weak to match up other ships, you won't use it, and that is what happened with the lancaster.
Some people tried to master the lancaster as a basingship, but when you were fighting equal opponents you would lack the firerate and manoeuvrability, a spider has.
So the lancaster never was a serious option to use in base.
With the invention of the 5-spider lineup and the cram last season, fuck the people who made that popular, most people found basing boring, and so there is a need to make it more rewarding to use other ships than 5 spiders.
With a lancaster that is as strong and -in a team with 4 spiders- maybe even stronger, you create the ability to use another lineup than 5-spider.

[Verthanthi]

fuck the people who made that popular

sorry. When we first started running 5 spids, it was considered an advantage in flag and a disadvantage entering. Sorry. Don't hate us.