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TrainingDummy:
I would absolutely love it if a Squid racing league became a real thing  :D

Squidslinger Gilder:

--- Quote from: Spud Nick on September 18, 2014, 07:50:29 am ---1.2 patch notes

- Rebalanced ship acceleration/speed profiles
-- Top Forward Speed (fastest to slowest): Squid, Goldfish, Pyramidion, Galleon, Junker, Spire
-- Forward Acceleration (fastest to slowest): Squid, Junker, Goldfish, Spire, Pyramidion, Galleon
-- Top Turn Speed (fastest to slowest): Squid, Junker, Goldfish, Spire, Pyramidion, Galleon
-- Turn Acceleration (fastest to slowest): Squid, Spire, Junker, Goldfish, Pyramidion, Galleon
-- Mass (largest to smallest): Galleon, Pyramidion, Spire, Goldfish, Junker, Squid
-- Vertical Acceleration (fastest to slowest, all top vertical speed is 12m/s): Squid, Spire, Goldfish, Junker, Pyramidion, Galleon

Wow the squid sucks! oh wait... It's number one in almost all of these categories.... Wow looking at these stats the squid would be a great racing ship. How come nobody has made a competitive squid race?

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Don't make me start...seriously. You were around pre 1.2 weren't you Spud? If not I wouldn't be surprised with your reply but if so, you must have some memory problems. The 1.1 Squid compared to 1.2 Squid is like comparing a horny rabbit race to a snail race.

People talk of the spire as a glass cannon but the squid back then was worse, a true tissue paper fighter. You couldn't ram with it or even touch ships without either losing a huge chunk of health or blowing up. To counter that it had speed and handling which outclassed everything. Nothing could catch it. You could only catch a squid if you out piloted it with tools and ships could counter it with tools but if your piloting ability was crap, all the tools in the world wouldn't mean anything. Its how Brick and I met and started flying together. He was the only Pyra pilot who would ever keep pace and not give up when they'd see my squid. I'd often beat him out in 1v1s but he'd make me work for it.

1.2 cut the speed, maneuvering, and accel by over 50%. To answer this, Muse took months to "fix" hydro and chute, which are still overall broken. Then before that they gave the squid an HP buff because it was pretty obvious no one could fly the tissue paper snail without dying horrifically every time you overshot and nudged a wall because the engines aren't responsive anymore.

You want good racing, quality fun with high speed action, get Muse to patch back in the 1.1 Squid. The current squid is an ABOMINATION and should have it's name changed to denote how crappy it is compared to it's roots.

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