Gunboat Balance

[alance]

Stuff like this will be very hard to balance.

Also, you have to take into account skill level. A lot of recent balance changes were because a few pilots of ridiculously high skill level managed to push certain classes to their limit. Rebalancing because of them isn't very fair, and makes skill count for less.

I did take skill level into account when I said "given equal pilots".

I -know- my Chart of Relative Pwnage (from now on referred to as "CoRP"!) is perfect-world thinking, but you need a unified goal when balancing ship classes. There are a ton of opinions on how well ship class A should fare against ship class B, but none of those opinions mean squat if our modder overlord (kudos to Igiss!) is working under another rationale.

That's not a snipe at Igiss by any means, it's more of a reminder for everyone posting balance suggestions based on their own personal opinions of ship class relationships. So I vote that my CoRP be engraved in stone for all to revere and worship. Or at least engrave it on the edge of your display so you can reference it easily... and vote me emperor for one year; Hugo Chavez and I have plans.

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"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."