Removal of Cerberus Turrets or Replacement?

[Highland Laddie]

My thoughts (or agreements with others' ideas):

1. Make Cerb RANGE lower to compensate for its hitting power
2. Make Cerb use more energy
3. Increase range of Primaries/Secondaries to greater than Cruiser Range
4. Double the BS missile max loadout

THe problem is, it doesn't change the fact that people can insta you by uncloaking, he can just sit at your "back-yard" and after that insta kill you with those Cerbs. With simple Primaries you'd still have a chance to escape but be like horribly damaged, still it would give you this option, but with the Cerbs you have none absolute death. <- No need to nerf Cloaks just an opinion about the Cerbs, if there would be no Cerbs there is no need to nerf the Cloaks imho. Also I don't think we need more Pulse cannons... In real it's the Hull which gets damaged very quick not the shield, so don't make shields more unusuable +_+ but I'd agree to EMP Missiles, 2 Different types of Missiles, why not? Or Something like the Shock Ray (Or Ray Cannon), but well fixed lol not slow turning like the first one, finaly it'd be able to turn quick and actually deal alot of dmg, more than Razor which would make it useful. Srsly the old Shock Rays were meh, slow turning realy useless maybe fix this.

Well, there are already EMP torpedoes for bombers and Pulse weapons for EVERY ship class, so I don't think it would do good to ALSO make an EMP missle for BSs (this also decreases the necessity for fleet diversity, which I am all in favor of). BSs should not be meant to go everywhere and stomp everything alone and without support. I would rather the player has to choose between having more Hull guns or Shield busters...as that ALSO affects the balance of the ship.

As for the insta-cloak cerb raping from the rear, that's a legit tactic. Let's say he does the same with a Mortar or Battle Razor? Same thing...still gonna eat you up. The trade off is that the other ship will also have no shields after de-cloaking...and will hopefully be a tempting target to whomever is supporting your BS while you get pummeled.

Anyways...for both your concerns, I would propose the following additional adjustments:

1. Increase BS shield hp by another 40%.
2. decrease Cerb hull damage slightly (maybe 10%)
3. make BS cloaks take up more cargo space (so that cloaking BSes cannot use more than CAU4 armor