Gunboat Balance

[RickJames]

I know this is mentioned all over the place on the forums and it might have its own thread. However, if it does not I thought I would make one for constructive thoughts on it.

The issue appears to be that with 2 or 3 gunboats loaded with certain weapons can fairly easily take out any other ship or combination of ships.

Most recently this was proved at Crete. Were 3 nomad GBs took out a number of fighters, gunboats, and 2 Osiris BSs.

Id like to get admin, developer, and player opinions on what the role of a Gunboat is in discovery.

Are they anti-fighter, anti-gunboat, anti-cruiser, anti-BS? Some combination of those? Or are they supposed to be able to take out any combination of ship classes?

If something is already being done about them would the developers share it with us?

The primary issue seems to be how much damage they can do and how often they can do it. Which is tons and all the time. While at the same time being fairly hard to hit.

I think the best thing would be to alter their power plants. Either giving them less energy or making their energy regen much much slower.

Ill be testing them myself in a bit and will post more specific data, like actual numbers, when I can.