Gunboat ponderings

[Govedo13]

I would go on with slightly different approach.
I would buff gb shields to 4.85 level, and would remove faction and basic turrets at all with Damage Buff both for Solaris and for Cerbs, with Cerbs speed nerf.
BRs could have the said close range weapon role- nerfing their range in favour of their speed would do it perfect.
The main point is that GBs need nerf in the turret steering movement, if the GBs moved slower there would be no 1 hour fight between 2 good gb pilots or gbs soloing cruisers and killing in pairs battleships.
I does not see how the difference of 400 speed fix gbs- it breaks them even more since the GBs become weaker vs fighters. I need to do more testing with the new cruiser guns and new secondariness but if they have the 4.86 hitrate the GBs still would be pain for caps. 4.86 GBs and their anti snub capabilities were perfectly balanced, sadly GBs were a way too good vs cruisers and Caps.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)