Gunships, a class of its own

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. Gunships have low armor, carry less bats and bots, and now you want people to carry only 4 turrets and mount transport shields. Christ, Heres a suggestion. try 5 turrets, less power, and keep in mind that the Cerb problem is temporary.

im a proper gunboat whore, so i can say with ease, its pretty easy to take down a hacker gunship with summat like a lib gunboat (having done so myself). i used engine kill, if u were wondering how i killed the GS. and then using the normal turning and reverse technique as well.

anyway my suggestion towards this situation:

gunboats, should remain as they are, since they do the job they are assigned well.
gunships on the other hand, are more like very light gunboats. personally, i think the gunships are fine the way they are right now, but if you dont share my opinion then heres what i put forward:

agility: the agility should remain the way it is now, but if u still want a change, then change the agility JUST A NOTCH
turrets: 5 turrets. cuts a balance between gunbots (since they have 6-8 turrets) and fighters.
power plant: gb PP is at 500k, so id say a gs PP should be at summat like 300-370k.
shield: they should have a gunboat shield. the reason why this is, since they are ideally light gunboats. giving them transport shields gives them no chance.

remember, since it is a light gunboat, a single bomber should not be able to easiliy take it down in the first place, since gunboats are considered the smallest caps around (well i consider them that way anyway). to take down a gunship, you should have at least a pair.

i mean cmon. put this situation in RL. can you even imagine a fighter pilot ripping through a gunship's shield alone, forget the hull, with constant fire raining upon it? like hoodlum says often 'use yer common sense people'..

about changing the name to sloop... please. dont. gunship sounds much more better, technical and more..' sci-fi ish' sloop sounds like a crude word for soup :/

anything else i wanted to add...?

dun remember.. will post later if i do remember. :P

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