The IMG| would kindly ask for the following ships to be revisited:
1. IMG Very Heavy Fighter Lothse
Many in IMG| think that the VHF is underpowered for the kind of ships that we meet/compete/fight. We did some calculations on the stats.
We chose those ships that the IMG fights most (Sabre) and also took ships that are known as "really good" and that the IMG encounters in their Omega operations (Wraith) or uses themselves (Eagle).
Statwise, the Lothse should be more agile than the Sabre, but it underperforms in reality.
It is easy to hit in comparison with good VHFs like Wraith and Sabre.
It lacks 1 gun compared to the Sabre
Armor, bats/bots and power core are (sadly) largely irrelevant for balancing because in a VHF fight, the one lives that can avoid being hit over a longer period of time. The IMG fighter cannot do that as well as the others.
We would like to have a VHF that can really play in the same league as the other good VHF.
We do not want to have a mediocre or okay-ish VHF, but we think we should also have a good one. The Lothse is okay now, it can be flown, but most IMG| want to go for the Eagle (after testing the Lothse) or will go for the Nyx as soon as it is clear what final tech nerf for IMG will be. Both are better choices... which is sad.
It feels as it has been in the last version: IMG has the weakest fighter in Taus. It barely outperforms the very agile Council Basilisk bomber (!) in reality, and no way it can kill it when it goes evasive. It is is also no match to the good VHF in the Omegas (Wraith) and Taus (Sabre). When fighting the unlawful Gallic HF, a slow craft that is easy to hit performs even worse.
It's a bit frustrating, really. Thus we would kindly ask to revisit the IMG VHF again and give it some chance to avoid fire equally well as the Sabre/Wraith does. It does not have to be an Eagle, but it should be in the same league with good VHFs.
2. IMG LF
With stats that are the same as the Nomad (it was checked, it really has these stats), it should be really agile, fast and with the MR capability we expected it to be THE IMG ship to fly.
No one can find an explanation why it does not in reality. Perhaps the ship's mass is a factor, some suggested.
Another thing could be that it is classified as: "ship_class = 3" which is VHF
We could not find a reason why it does not perform like a LF in the stats. We did some comparisons with ingame performance of the CR-LF, and the CR one is a real LF.
So we would also kindly ask for the LF to be tested because we think it does not perform as a LF should.
3. IMG small transport
As the size seems to be too small for a transport (there was a size comparison in another thread and it has been ticketed already).
You could change it into a freighter and adjust cargo space and equipment accordingly (so it would only mean a statwise change, not a model resize).
Statwise, the transport version has too little cargo space to be used anyway, whereas a freighter could have some real use in the IMG line.
Thank you for trying to respond to all the suggestions and questions.
