Bombers VS Capital Ships, Balance Needed

[Trogdor]

NubCapPilot: "But Veygaar, you forgot about when a BS is all by himself, what then?! We should be able to win!"

Veygaar: "If you go out in a Battleship alone you have already set yourself for failure by failing to comprehend your vessel's role and purpose.

Everyone has a different opinion of what their role and purpose is. I'd like to know yours, since you seem so sure that yours is correct.

Battleships are unquestionably good at 2 things.

1) shooting targets that don't move
2) shooting targets that do move but are stupid enough to get close

But

2 will never happen because pretty much everyone knows better than to get close to a battleship, or to let one get close to you.
So that leaves us with option 1. But if your battleship is only good for killing the enemy's battleship, and the enemy's battleship is likewise not a threat to your other ships, why would either side bother fielding a battleship?

As for going out alone.. I'm sorry but that argument just doesn't hold water. Maybe it works for Liberty, Rheinland, Bretonia, Sairs... but for pretty much everyone else, with the community being this small and spread out amongst factions/systems, good luck trying to find people to group with.

And so, if you're going with the argument that these ships should only be effective in large group battles... there will be very few opportunities to use them -> no reason to buy one -> no reason to accumulate billions of credits -> no need to trade -> the holy trinity of police/pirate/transport falls apart -> mod dies.

Therefore battleships must be fun, useful ships, that one can use whenever, if for no other reason than to help keep the mod's gears turning.

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