Polaris is not supposed to solo Idris so PDCs are doing their job. You either need a squad of smaller ships to focus on destroying PDCs or get closer and dumb-fire torpedoes up close as only locked rockets are attacked.

If CIG keeps to their idea of capital ship combat, I don't believe the PDC's will be nerfed. Like Crisalis said, you need fighters to take them out before a Polaris can nuke you with torps.

Looks like the intent is to overwhelm the PDCs with missile spam or destroy them first, and then the torpedoes penetrate to damage the vessel.

I would like to see survivability of those torpedoes increased a bit.

Need a way to target subsystems, currently it's spray in the genral area and hope. That's after spending forever to bring down the shields in the 1st place. Currently Polaris is the only ship that can cause any substantial damage to the Idris, until they figure out the "cap hunter" size 7's on the Ares ships. Would also like a party finder system for bigger missions like this. Would be nice to know what size ships ppl are bringing. Have a ship recommendation listed on the contract, and when you accept it displays how many of each size category is on site. Or even accepting the contract acts like a party invite. Accept and you are now part of the contracted party. Current mess Is a mess. Everyone is flagged as hostile, security is hostile to everyone, hard to salvage/clean up because of security, rewards are not always given out. Other phases are just as messed up.

I own everything so I am pretty unbiased here. At the moment, IMO the pds are a little too effective lol. I saw two polaris dumping torps AND missiles into the idris as fast as they could and almost all of them got shot down lol. Trust me I love my Idris, buuut that sort of makes the Polaris entirely irrelevant as a capital that “punches up.”

They have a couple ways to go about keeping the PDCs as good as they are and making the Polaris a bad mother:

1. You can now target them with smaller ships, this will create longer drawn-out fighting.... Only way this is fun is with a massive armada.

2. They can create different types of Torps / Missiles that blind sensors... that way you can perform surprise attacks. If you QT on top of your target, launch missiles / torps that blind the PDCs, and another wave that are hull penetrating explosive rounds, then you can you potentially take out your target that way. This would be epic game play, where you have to stalk your target and know where / when they will be at a certain point.

The fact that PDCs don't fire with priority on dumbfired torpedoes is a technical problem right now, but CIG is going to fix that soon.

I have them both, but I will definitely be more interested in ships with guns instead of missiles and torpedoes as I finalize my fleet. I was already wary before but the direction the game is going is really tipping the scale more.