Rules update 5.7 6.6 6.7

[Lunaphase]

Considering this now makes even the battletransports useless, well actually they became useless with turretsteer, the one thing they could face now cant be touched by em, all this does is create player hate.

Honestly, transports are balanced as cash cows at the moment because the pirate crowd whines and whines whenever they might have to work for it. now they just grab a buddy with a snub and a cruiser and even convoys of battletransports cant do squat-all to defend themselves.


Therefore, i make the following suggestion:

Since pirates are now able to pirate in anything they can get hands on, i think its safe to assume adding a mercenary cruiser type would not go amiss. If the pirates are starting to use everything they have, corporations would certainly step up their defences and start up-armoring their ships as well.

If this rule change becomes permanant then adding mercenary cruisers to combat this problem (a viable solution, considering indie pirates can maintain a gunship than a ship that is backed by a major corporation could easily handle a cruiser size) would be a helpful stopgap. Perhaps an escort cruiser class.

Anyway, another alternative is to add more armor and guns to transports, though that seems to defeat the point, making only cruisers and bs able to do much.

The only real option is enabling better defences for those who convoy up as mentioned, with a merc cruiser escort or a corporate cruiser escort. Because lets be honest, bomber and snub escorts or even gb escorts really cant prevent a convoy from being insta-popped now by a bs or cruiser.


"Pay or die" is not good balance, and that is what this rule has created. You have managed to eliminate all teamwork activity from being viable because one pirate cruiser or bs can ruin your whole time.

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