Gunboat Balance

[Jinx]

gunboats are OK versus fighters at the moment, i think. they do their jobs well, offering a good portion of protection, agility and firepower to take down fast and agile targets.

but how can we try to get them in line with bigger ships. all capships are freighters. there is no difference from a fighter armor and a battleship armor. both take the same amount of damage from a gun. the only difference is that the battleship has more hitpoint. ( which we call armor, but its sort of confusing )

if it was balanced, the gunship was doing like 100% damage to a fighter/freighter/transport and basicly anything of its own size and smaller. but it would do like only 50% damage to something with a thick capship armor, cause not only the battleship has more hitpoints but also cause the armor is simply absorbing more damage.

however, its impossible to do that - i mean, even the capship weapons do not know different types, they are all the same, and origin aswell as projectile looks are only cosmetics. if capship weapons were different classes like the fighter ones, there d be a greater chance for big ships - depending of the shield they use, since a weapon that hits a shield that is designed for such a weapon only does 80% damage while it does 120% if the shield is not designed for it.
20% less damage if the capship carries the correct shield can make a difference. if such a calculation could be applied to armor aswell, ( like not only capship armor VII, but instead "reflective capship armor VIII ( against lasers etc.", "reactive capship armor VIII ( against particles etc )", "<in need for a better name> capship armor VIII ( against neutrons etc. )" a cruiser / battleship could endure a gunboat easier - IF the gunboat had the wrong weaponloadout.

another way is to simply buff up capships, but i don t think thats what the community wants:laugh:(faster projectiles to hit the gunboats. - but ... maybe special turrets that do lower damage ( compared to other basic BS turrets, like 1500 dam, but with a projectile speed of 5000 - might do a job )

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