GB balancing for 4.87

[TonyRistar]

Less turret steering/zoom ability. The people who really need turret zoom are transports, capitals. Those are larger and get swarmed. Gunboats are still agile, and deserve only a notch of zoom or two. Autoaim with the fast refire turrets is just silly. Mostly due to the fact that gunboats are nothing more than miniature cruisers in the sense of the game.

Balance seems off to me. Gunboats are larger, have a bigger power core, yet they have VERY limited anti-capital options (Besides pew pew pew pew I'm turret steering you can't hit me) and a lot of patience. Solution?

Add anti-capital abilities to gunboats. Nothing drastic, but give them the ability to /really/ worry a cruiser or bship. However the saving grace is their zoom is reduced, making them more vulnerable to what is SUPPOSED to kill them (bombers and snubs). If a gunboat decides to kit out for anti-snub combat, it should be worthless against anything large or other gunboats. Face the music, a cruiser or Bship with anti snub weaponry onboard is fresh lunch meat. Should be the same for gunnies. Make them have specific purposes. Right now the turrets are too good for literally eating everything with sustained DPS.

More gun spread, more focus on specified firepower. Add anti-capital weaponry (No reason there can't be gunboat 'torp' turrets)

This will also improve fleets from being a bunch of BS's and carriers and turn them into actual "Ok we need harassers and finishers that can be quick about it"

Slugging matches would turn into coordinated battles after a few sides lose 3 dreads to a gunboat gank.

Plus, the snub pilots would get something to hunt down.

tl;dr gunboats once they acquired TS became pretty much unstoppable after the turret steering concept has been learned.

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