Gunboat Balance

[DivineKiller]

Keepers supposedly use mostly Nomad weapons, not full Cerbs.

Come in our systems and see what keepers have mounted... Their ships are full with Zoners/Order/Corsair weapons... BS mount inferno/razors and mortars and they attack without warning even you are in fight with NPCs patrols and kill us from behind.

Now, aboout gunships, the reality is they are VERY overpowered. Have almost same firewpower with a destroyer but the agililty of the bomber (a little less). If u fight with a GS with thruster, ur cuiser/destroyer dont have any chance becose u always will be in full fire from ur enemy who will post himself somwhere where ur turets have lowest eficiency becose of the fire angle. *NB, in beta 4 their maneuvrability was improuved!. More then that, a GS have 500 nano/shields and is 5-6 times lower then ur destr/cruiser/bc. The result is a big ship *with only 600 nano/shield* will run out of this almost instant, but a GS have suplies for 3 or 4 full recovers. Is insane and frustrating becose is not about the pilot skills. All u can do is try to turn ur ship (but u cant, becose u fight in turets mods...) and finally u see is pointless. Even u will lower the shields and hit the hull a little... surprise! The GS is again fresh and ready and u runout for nano/and shields... The real fire power is the maneuvrability, the ability if ur ship to move in best positions and keep enemy in ur full fire. Donst matter the number of ur turets, the armor or hull. Just the speed. Any GS with cerberus will kill ur bus in 1-2 minutes.

Real encounter - A GS (8 cerberus) vs. Battle Cruiser (BC) Albatross (10 cerberus, 2 Corsair turets without thruster). First time when i fight against a GS i think the guy have cheating... I mean, come on, all i can do is a liniar fly to death while sitting in turets mode and trying to respond at fire and looking at him doing circles around me and recover his shields/hull 3 or 4 times (he said after the battle he still have nano/shields left...)

Posible solutions> decrease the number of Nano/Sheilds a smaller ship can carry comparing with the other results, decrease the firepower of gunship guns/turets, decrease the power/power recovery, decrease their maneyvrability, decrease the number of wepons or the shields . Comparing the eficiency, a GS cost 20 mil - a Destroyer/Cruiser or BC 100- 220+ mil. ANd guess what.. All your hard work (months and months) for a more powerfull ship is usless/ Yes, the big ships must have escorts, yes, is logical to be vulnerable at lower ships in numbers, but is ilogical a BC (a ship half BS half cruiser) cant manage with ONE very single GS. Ok, if in battle are 3-4 or more GS against ur ship and ambush you, yeah, this is a problem! But now u dont have a chance. I repeat, is not about the pilot skills when ur ship fly like a planet... Is frustrating and unrealistical.

*excuse my english but is frustrating... i'm on Discovery from about 2 months trying to have fun, but GS make all others ships usless in solo PvP (most encounters). I cant protect my trader from one GS...
Moders/admis, pls try to fight with an Albatross (220 milions dolars baby) against a Corsair GS (20 milions) and see urself what are we talking about. Just try to turn ur ship onto ur enemy and ur dead, pal! And dont cruise to maneuver ur big schoolbus in battle (not to runaway or shiled run) becose ur cheating... Is not logical and fair!