Salvager and Raba regen counts: too high?

[Dane Summers]

A crux of this issue is Premium Scrap.

As a Salvager, it has the market cornered on the best selling minable commodity in the game. It can mine it, trade it, and be hard to kill while doing so. This is vastly different from the previous mod versions.

Salvagers had very few, if any, complaints in 85 due to the fact that Junkers had much less to do, and much more people shooting at them.

In 86, the Salvager lost its awesome strafing ability - to be replaced by a rather un-needed thruster boost.

Add to this changes in weapons. AND the Premium Scrap (something for junkers to do, which was badly needed)

I've also taken it upon myself to do my own little combat experiments in the Salvager - both as the target, and as the bomber -

in this case:
three salvagers...

One Cap4, Solaris, with TS\TZ, vs a Waran with SNAC and Nova's

One UAU8 with Junker Prims, no TS\TZ, vs the same Waran,

One Cap4, Solaris, TS\TZ, vs a Thor with SNAC\Novas\Hellfires

In the first fight, I won with half my regens gone. However, I also had my thruster and half my turrets blown off.

In the second fight, the Armor8 Sally had its shield, and all but two of its turrets blown off, and only won because of a fluke (it tagged a nova right as it launched)

In the third fight, I switched to the bomber, and I lost, twice. The third time I got lucky with a Nova spam, and my opponent was typing.
I'm also terrible in bombers, and haven't had any pvp in this game in the year or so since I've been gone.

So, the conclusion I've come to is that a Salvager is not something that can be solo'd, but two bombers working together probably wont have half as much trouble. I like this as a sort of "turnabout being fairplay" - Pirates have always complained that traders should buddy up with escorts and\or convoys to increase RP - well maybe pirates should do the same.

Karst also mentioned, during our skype debate, that a Ptrans with a Charon loadout can eat a Salvager, given the time to do so. Being as that most Salvagers are armed with Solaris, it would be vastly outgunned in that fight - gunboat turrets or no.

In conclusion - the Salvager doesn't need a nerf. It was fine in the past, and the only issues it has now are things that have been added to it, such as a thrust buff. It does not need to be made worse to make up for something it never needed in the first place.

Also - stop trying to nerf things that are good - this is the cancer of disco

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