(02-04-2015, 12:25 AM)Pancakes Wrote: The issue is that hampering the damage would affect ALL lfs, even the bigger ones - thus making what little good can come out of them begone. Hence why I suggested that the smaller LFs would be nerfed down to 3 guns since the current LF guns are doing insane damage output, 2 hullbusters is more than a plenty on LF to make a dent, let it have anther 2 debs and gg shields too.
Again, what I am saying that a copy-cat of Liberator is bad. I wouldn't mind to give a try to a Liberator-like only with 3 guns, so then it will do what Dii suggested - have the ability to poke VHFs. Poke, not have a near equal DPS with just half the guns.
The bigger LFs need to be rebalanced especially, not by giving them (even) higher damage, but by scaling them down and making them turn faster. You know, by turning them into actual light fighters. What good is any ship that dies to a single MR when it has almost the same attack surface as a VHF?
I wouldn't mind that. But that qualifies to about 80% of the LFs out there, need someone to go ahead and do the job. Plenty of them won't do with just a scale down and will need to be remodeled too.