Salvager and Raba regen counts: too high?

[Karst]

Seems a lot of people, such as Huggie and Jeni, have not really understood why the Salvager is overpowered.
Case in point:

Perhaps one reason why I'm missing the OP complaint is that in my mind I see the sally as more akin to the shire type battle transport than a regular transport such as a BWT or Serenity (old firefly?) - which were common smuggling ships in .85/.86 far more than the ptrain.

It may be more like a Shire-type battletransport, except with much, much higher survivability.
I'm not even going to mention the GB turrets here.

The Salvager will survive for a longer distance than any other transport while under fire, by a considerable margin.
You can class it as whatever you want. Call it a frigate and say it deserves better defenses, like aerelm, fine.

But the very simple problem with the ship is: It survives for a greater distance than any other transport by virtue of its hull and regens alone, while having sufficient cargo space to make it a viable trade ship.

The closest in survivability that isn't the Raba is the Renzu liner, a vastly slower, fatter, weaker transport.
So you killed a Salvager, and it wasn't too hard? Good for you, you would have killed almost any other transport with even less effort.

Is the model large for its cargo space? Sure. But when you're simply thrusting towards the nearest base you can dock at, it will survive longer than literally any other transport.

The simple fact is, it's too durable to be a trade ship. It lives too long for the distance it covers under fire. No size disadvantage can change that.

Now consider all of the above, and add to that the fact that it can either use really powerful gunboat turrets, or use transport turrets and have infinite core. See the problem here?

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