GB balancing for 4.87

[Ursus]

Add anti-capital abilities to gunboats

This is what the forward gun is supposed to provide, but its such a limited weapon that most people dont even use it for anti-cap. Would be far better to replace the FG hardpoint with a class-7 turret hardpoint, so that house gunboats could mount one cruiser heavy turret. Power core restricts the options, so its not like we would have little gunboats running around spamming cruiser missiles. Anyway it would be a lot closer to the anti-cap design point.

As to balancing in general. I agree that faction turrets are a bit too good right now, but the rumors of 50% DPS nerf is over-reaction.

Gunboats fight three classes, bridging the gap between snubs and caps, able to fight either of them (when used appropriately), and also fighting other gunboats. Assuming equal skill, a lone gunboat should be able to fight 2 snubs, and 2 gunboats should be able to fight 1 cruiser. Right now they are kind of strong on the snub side but just a little bit, 2 snubs will die fast but 3-4 good snubs can bring down a gunboat np. A slight nerf to DPS addresses that, but it makes the gunboat less effective against other gunboats and caps too. Reduction in weapon speed would work better, since it would make it harder to hit the snubs and therefore make the gunboat die a little faster to swarms. But the imbalances with gunboat-vs-gunboat can only be fixed by addressing turret arcs, and changing the arcs would also make them more succeptible to snubs who got behind them, so that is the one true fix.

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