Titan vs

[Kinslayer]

I'm gonna jump in here on balancing the Blood Dragon.

I've flown the ship for a while, using only Daitos, pretty sub-par guns (BD faction Level 9s). I'll just throw in the stats here so you can see how much worse they are compared to the Kraken and Salamanca:

SPS = Shots per second

Daito:

70 energy @ 8.33 SPS = 583.1 Energy per second
1940.89 Hull Damage per second
966.28 Shield Damage per second

Salamanca:

97.8 energy @ 4.00 SPS = 391.2 energy per second
1956 Hull Damage per second
980 Shield Damage per second

Kraken:
126 energy @ 4.00 SPS = 504 energy per second
2224 Hull Damage per second
1112 Shield Damage per second

So, we can see that while the Kraken has better damage than the Salamanca, the Salamanca has a better energy efficiency. But the Daito just takes the cake with being a piece of ****, having a lot less efficiency in energy and less hull and shield damage per second. This, coupled with the BD's horrible power generator, makes it a very sub-par ship offensively.

What's funny is that I've beaten many pilots flying Raven's Talons, Titans, etc in 3v1s, 4v1s, and such. Most of the time a capwhore manages to shove his nose into the fight and make me run (as I can't do any damage to even a gunboat), but I have been able to finish a few 3v1s before with my victory.

Now, this isn't to say I haven't lost before. During an RP event, I've lost to an eagle sported out in the best codies, nuke mines, shield busters, et cetera. That's just lame in my opinion, codenames should be rare enough that you shouldn't be able to do that, but that's a different subject. The point is that while the Blood Dragon has superior mobility to all VHFs, with my loadout, it can be outclassed by raw power in terms of weaponry. Another problem that my loadout has is the complete inability to fight transports and capital ships at all, making even two people with my loadout have trouble taking down a container transport, though I have done it alone before. Took a while.

Anyways, the problem with the Blood Dragon is it that it can mount similar weapons to the other VHFs. With this feature on it, I agree as a pilot of it; it's incredibly overpowered. However, with my all-dDito loadout, it's more balanced since it has less punch but more turn. Decreasing the max level of the Blood Dragon loadout to all level 9's would force players to choose between a tank like the Titan and more maneuverable ships like the Eagle and Blood Dragon.

However, if this was done to the Blood Dragon, I'd expect the same sort of thing to happen to the Eagle, Titan, and Saber. The Blood Dragon would have zero level 10 slots, the Eagle would have a few level 10 slots (maybe 1-2), the Saber would have a few more, and then the Titan should be the most amount of level 10 slots. While this sounds like quite a drastic change (What, I can't whore codies anymore? Woe is me!), I personally think it would go a long way towards improving balance among the top fighters. It's already done in the level 9 guns (Daito vs others), why not do it for level 10's as well?

Edited for accuracy. Thanks to chopper for pointing that out.