Heavy Fighter's Cruise Speed

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Light Fighters are interceptors, escorts, recon and light assault vessels.

In my opinion they are doing their job right at the momenth, given limited arnament (I would beef it up to 4 class 9), super cruise speed and agility to survive

Very Heavy Fighters are heavy assault, currently also frontline snubs.

Honestly I would like for them to have in addition to current firepower also repurposed sunslayers. Perhaps give them half damage of the Nova and utilize such equipped VHF's as substitutes for bombers while retainining agility.

Heavy Fighters for most cases are mini-VHF's but most are simply redundant.

They are supposed to be middle ground between VHF and LF's, however in most cases you get a bit more agile VHF which is way more fragile and posess bit lesser firepower.

In my opinion, their firepower is in due order and stat-wise should get hull/agility buff. In addition increased thruster speed which could be reasoned with a fact that VHF gaining weight and sacrificing agility for maximum firepower fighter can wield looses some of thrust power. LF could be too small for such efficient afterburners, leaving space only for better cruise engines.

Let's asume thruster speed of heavy fighter would equal 230

You get mini-VHF's with still existing obvious flaws given role of brawlers. Such brawler could get into battle much faster, use its additional speed for combat maneuvering and if things turn ugly - attempt to break off (and be countered by interceptors cruise later)

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