cap ship limiting

[Treewyrm]

Well, that's when Gunboats become all-rounders. No ship should be such, it ruins the atmosphere IMO. Me and Lohingren are currently talking over Skype, we agreed that Gunboats should generally be Anti-fighter with slight Anti-Cap support. And 1400 m/s is quite fast IMO, faster than most weapons out here.

It's not about atmosphere, it's about balance of ship classes mostly and loadouts they have. Gunboat turrets speed is fast but not fast enough to compensate the factors previously mentioned to quickly dispatch enemy fighters. Hence you have gunboats effective against caps and not that effective against fighters. Source of the usage & class-vs-class problem lies within the weapon balance, not roleplay. This is why I'm saying that for gunboat to be anti-fighter craft it needs to be made effective enough at that specific task while lowering it's effectiveness against bigger ships. So that damage on those weapons must be enough to kill a fighter and a bomber, speed of the projectiles increased to catch up with fighter maneuverability, but damage being not effective against battleships.