Salvager and Raba regen counts: too high?

[Corile]

She must have a good defence capabilities! It's universal all-around good stuff in a staight hands.. By the way, two xenos bombers, for example, can blow it to dust with 5 minutes... So i don't think that's ship imbalanced.

5 minutes is like, 3 minutes too many for two bombers to blow up a ship.

Salvager fat and easy taget for bombers novas and snac's.

Nope. Novas won't work because they're too quick (Novas rarely work on anything anyway, because everything gunboat-down is too fast and everything cruiser-up has flaks). SNACs don't work well either because of Sally's incredibly flat profile that makes it really difficult to hit with proper positioning.

Hackers -small group with limited influence

Lmfao.

if you want to take out convoy.. so don't cry here about imbalance, just use a correct ship for this. or group of ships

I once found a convoy of three ptrains and one salvager. I found them near Cali sun, about 70K away from Alcatraz. I managed to take out only two ptrains before they reached Alcatraz because the sally was feeding them (only two ptrains over the distance of 70K, zero SNACs missed, everyone was cd'ed). It's not even just a transport and a gunboat in one, it's also a goddamn repair ship.

I still say this whole thread was started cause someone lost a fight , or a Salvager managed to escape them. Then they cry about a ship needing nerfed cause it is too powerful. GET OVER IT.

One salvager is a very small problem because if you catch it off guard (say, near Chisos) it has nowhere to run. But two of them can easily run away for literally two systems.

One question though, for the seemingly uninformed person like me - were there any crucial changes to battletransport/liner class in general in last year +, that suddenly made salvager rather OP? I just don't remember topics like that in 2011/12/ early 13. (pre 87).

I suppose it wasn't a big problem until Cardie and Pscrap got buffs and Texas -> alpha got to be the biggest solo powertrade route of all times.

And I can't remember the last time I died in my salvager against single transports and bombers (or even two bombers) as well as gunboats (however gunboats are quite the struggle, thankfully my unnecessarily increased thrust speed gives me the advantage, taking them on in a fight would be madness, however running from them is an option) :}

I couldn't even kill one sally in a Battlecruiser, let alone a gunboat.

@up
I suppose Raba is not that big of a problem because of the things you mentioned in the last paragraph.

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