Lord Haseo said:
Someone thinking that TFA is too similar to ANH is a valid complaint while TIE Fighters have two seats is not.As opposed to former, the later is actually technically valid complaint. As an expert, I can easily say that having a “gunner” with a rotatable cannon on a fighter is stupid. It is nothing but a waste for a fighter role ship.
I don’t see how having more options as it pertains to offence is a bad thing. Saves the pilot from having to concentrate on flying and blowing stuff up at the same time.
Putting extra stuff to a ship doesn’t come at no cost. It increases the weight and decreases the performance. For a fighter it is better to keep low weight for a better performance of its actual role, or spend the extra weight for better engines and other weaponry that is actually useful for a fighter. Furthermore, aiming at anything with turret while fighter is in a dogfight is useless. Even if this was a bomber (flying mostly straight and using turret for protection), that kind of configuration of the turret is rather useless. The TIE fighter wings block a major portion of the lower sphere around it, in addition to the upper sphere being completely unreachable.