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Transport regens

Karst

12-08-2014, 07:35 PM,

#11

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Transports, as they are now, are absurdly hard to take down.
See here.

After their thrust speed got buffed, and Charons and Dulzians got buffed, it was all ogre.

People complain about cruiser piracy, but do you know why people pirate in cruisers? Because only cruisers and transports can realistically stop a transport from reaching its destination in most locations.

They are too survivable, no doubt about that. The main issue in balancing them lies with cruisers: Ever since cruiser vs transport was permitted, you have this impossible situation in which you can't buff transports too much or they'll be invulnerable to anything else (which is what we have now), and you can't nerf cruisers too much or they'll be useless against everything other than transports.

Honestly, I don't see how this balance can be resolved unless the rule is changed again to prevent cruiser piracy.
As it stands transports are the only ship class that can reliably kill other transports in any situation.