Always a bigger fish?

[Kazyumi]

hard to compare them like that - they rather take up different roles than compare to each other. a gunboat is quite agile and small, and usually used like a fighter ( chase view ). a cruiser / battleship is mostly slower and used in turret mode and relies on its turrets.

Well sure, its hard to compare things that serve other duties...
So can you please tell me what a cruiser does then? It can't take on a BS nor a GB, don't even bother fighting anything smaller.

armor doesn not necessarily display survivability - a battleship has a lot of armor, but no way to evade damage, a gunboat has - to some extend. there are allways discussions about how they "should" be - but for most of it - its down to what you like the most - disregarding the stats.

Well aware of that.

the ships are not meant to be balanced perfectly. when it comes to efficiency - a gunboat beats most other ships, but that doesn t mean a battleship isn t good in certain situations or inefficient. - and after all its aswell down to what role you play.

I didn't say anything was wrong with the Battleship, or even the Gunboat, but maybe the Cruiser class however?

Have you tested all capships against each other with all different RP loadouts?
If not, well, you can guess what my suggestion is.

Respectful
AoM

Yessir!
Well, not of all factions. But aye. As seen in my first post fight-change list.

You are forgetting bombers....
...a good bomber pilot can really give a GB a run for its money. if the bomber pilot has a CD and a Super nova installed. As the GB can not turn as fast as the bomber now, and CD can take care of the slide turn. It has to rely on turret view to do damage, meaning it can not steer while firing on a good bomber pilot bomber. It takes time but a bomber pilot with patience can take out a GB.

A good bomber can take on every cap ship 1 vs 1 depending on pilot skill (or might be in trouble with the massive armour of a Battleship, but I'm sure it beats it due to firepower and agility), and this topic was mainly about the cap ship balance. I am aware of that, that's why I didn't put in in ths list. You are right about that though.

Also The ships designs are to promote cooperative game play.

Good point. That's one way to justify it.

You want to fly alone, buy a GB but if you meet a hostile bomber and a VHF fighter together.....run or die.

Seconded.

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