Gunboats.

[Savannah]

I agree, It's partly because solarises are now de facto almost useless, and slow 990m/s turrets can't hit even bigger boats at range good enough, and even less so smaller boats. What to do? I would support reversing to the 4.85 balance. If not, then either slightly buff basic/faction turret speed, or better just increase solaris range to something useful. 495m isn't working good enough even against snubs and low range makes them even more useless against bigger targets. 1500m/s was more or less absurd, but 700-800m range seems quite reasonable. Then lighter and bigger gunboats would be more balanced again, since bigger boats have luxuty using solaris while lighter ones have no powercore to support them good enough. Gunboats are supposed to be mostly antisnub, and with current turret balance, mainly solaris range, gunboats aren't while still being useful anticap. Like ... illogical?

P.S. Kudos Jack, those were really cool fights today. Perhaps I am really becoming a filthy merc as I hugged the sun corona in the earlier fight

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