Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24903406-20141007051629/@comment-14850713-20141008004154

TB, many people stay in Open because of the lag in VIP.

Also, VIP battles will have many issues. The lag I've already mentioned. The other is "disconnected" battles, which tend to happen when ships have lots of planes. I've experienced this many times since I always go into VIP with hybrids as from experience a purely gun-armed non-hacked ship has almost no chance against hacked ships with the whole spectrum of weapons in VIP.

That's why we should encourage more Open battles. In general play, VIP is more a matter of resource than design (although of course among hackers, since they are more or less equal in resource, design may spell the difference, that's why there are dominating ships like TB's BE, Doc's Predator, Owl's Kraken, Wolf's PLAN gun barge, etc.). But coming up with a strong ship without going into VIP is the real challenge and where design has as much or even bigger impact than resource. Think ships like GO!2's Italy, Owl's Talos, TB's Graf Staufenberg Lv6 to name a few.