Space Combat is easy:

-Join a Squad or create one
-As Squad Leader give Attack / Defend Orders, as Squad Meber follow these orders or stay close to other squad members
-If you spot a target, set probing shoots in front of him - single shoots, not continuous fire
-look for the hit indicator - if your probing shoot scores a hit, pull the trigger until the target is destroyed
-if the probing shoot doesn't hit correct your lead
-don't be silly and shoot continuos if the target is too far away: By doing so you will revale your position to any other enemy fighter
-the reason for being in a squad: Stay together (its simple in a squad, just follow the green icons in HUD & Map) and concentrate fire at one target. Yeah, it's unfair, but war isn't a game

it's also a good idea to get the singleplayer Minimod and partice on Battle of Yavin with it.

I'd love for the engine limitation to go away, too, but for the moment, it seems it's a no-go unfortunately .

Alright I was following you up until that point. Come on now, TOO easy? Of course it isn't TOO easy. TOO easy would be if everyone and their grandma could, without much effort, score a lot of kills. But that's not how it is. 'Easy' isn't having it so only space-vets of the X-wing/TieFighter days actually getting kills in a dogfight. It may be easy for you, sure, but it definitely isn't easy for the majority of the playerbase, and that's what we're trying to fix here. Makes the mode a little unattractive at times.

Concur.

It may be easy to get kills in space when the other guys don't know what they're doing.. Otherwise its difficult.

That's no way to refer to Twigs

There is NO invulnerability bug. You CAN lead your target from a long distance.

Look, as jay says, it's all down to lag/latency, just learn to compensate for it. Many of the good pilots in FS will no doubt agree with me, if you're shooting right at the ship then chances are those hits won't register, depending on distance depends how far in front you need to shoot. If you're right on his tail then don't shoot unless you have the front of his ship in sight, that way you can be sure that the point of impact will be roughly in the center.

As an XvT and XWA vet from the days of dial up, this game is a freaking dream when it comes to taking people down in space. I'm sure other xvT and XWA vets here feel the same as well, in fact, I often think that the space maps are a little TOO easy when it comes to getting kills!

Alright I was following you up until that point. Come on now, TOO easy? Of course it isn't TOO easy. TOO easy would be if everyone and their grandma could, without much effort, score a lot of kills. But that's not how it is. 'Easy' isn't having it so only space-vets of the X-wing/TieFighter days actually getting kills in a dogfight. It may be easy for you, sure, but it definitely isn't easy for the majority of the playerbase, and that's what we're trying to fix here. Makes the mode a little unattractive at times.

Anyhow, it really does need some kind of even minor fix. Excusing this game because of the antics of an old relic (a good relic, but a relic nonetheless) like XvT from the days of dial-up AOL accounts and horrible alternative rock bands isn't really all that fair.

Look, as jay says, it's all down to lag/latency, just learn to compensate for it. Many of the good pilots in FS will no doubt agree with me, if you're shooting right at the ship then chances are those hits won't register, depending on distance depends how far in front you need to shoot. If you're right on his tail then don't shoot unless you have the front of his ship in sight, that way you can be sure that the point of impact will be roughly in the center.

As an XvT and XWA vet from the days of dial up, this game is a freaking dream when it comes to taking people down in space. I'm sure other xvT and XWA vets here feel the same as well, in fact, I often think that the space maps are a little TOO easy when it comes to getting kills!

If that confused you, I mean to make the projectiles emit an invisible 'explosion' on contact that's about the size of the starfighter (e.g. 5-10 meters) that couldn't be seen, but would still damage the ship?

Again, I completely don't understand anything about what I'm talking about, but I thought I'd contribute.

How about making the laser bolts faster?

AFAIK the laser bolt projectiles in space are the same as any machine gun on vehicles in vanilla, only faster and higher volume (you can see the impacts of the real projectiles if you shoot at the hull of a capitol ship, you'll see many many impact effects.

The effectiveness in single player you felt would be what multiplayer FS would be like with no latency between you and the server, the server to the enemy client, then the enemy client to the server, then the server to you

How about making the laser bolts faster?

Lasers (the actual projectile, not the visual part) could be made larger as well.

Would this help combat the annoyance of the bug at all?  I know that a lot of ground fans just get frustrated by space because you can get so many glancing blows into an enemy in a dogfight, with no effect whatsoever.

I'd love to be looping around chasing an enemy, and like in any flight sim be able to lead my target a moderate amount and score some solid hits.

Thoughts?