Battleship discussion topic

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And I don't really mind your suggestion, f2k, except the part about giving the BS lvl 9 or 8 secondary/tertiary mounts. Do you want to make some BS lvl 9/8 weapons?
That would just mean that other ships would love to get their hands on such weapons. Unless of course they use a million energy or so to fire per weapon.

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I was thinking more along the lines of using lvl 8 and 9 fighter turrets as a sort of point defence weapon.

And besides that, why do you want to compare them with real life BSs? This game isn't reallife. Never have been.
In other spacesimulation games (at least all of those I've played), BSs are meant to deal with normal fighters. And other BSs. Actually they're usually able to deal with everything. So if you want to compare Freelancer BSs, then I say compare them with other games BSs (or equivalent).

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Real life is always a good place to seek inspiration. And space-sims are generally a bad place to go
Why are real life battleships not meant to deal with small boats? Because its a waste of time! You do not spend years developing a great big ship just to have it go out to sea and shoot at rowboats you build it to go out and shoot at other big ships. Dealing with the small boats is what youve got Corvettes and Destroyers for

99% agree. Cargo space needs to be bigger f2k, they have 1000-1500 right now.

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Giving them such a small cargospace was very deliberate. Were talking warships here, not freighters. Once youve loaded the ship with food, ammunition, shield generators, and crew just how much space do you think is left for cargo?

--Impulse speed should be 100 instead of 80. Unless a thruster is added. If a thruster is added, 80 is fine as long as you can reach 110-120 when using thrusters.. (thruster idea preferred, so BS can strafe. That would help a lot when docking with tradelanes/jump gates).

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Ive always imagined battleships to be hugh lumbering giants. Hence the slow speed

--Mines for a BS are nonsense. Mines are meant to be droped in the path of a pursuing ship, when PvPing with small ships.

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They are also very good at getting rid of that pesky fighter that has parked right behind you

I don't know how this was calculated, but look at the numbers. For normal shields, regen rate is capacity divided by 45. According to you, it should be divided by 1000. They will be much weaker than now, almost impossible to regenerate. That's stupid.

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I wasnt aware of that. If going by that, battleship shields should a a regen of around 13.000

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