Gunboats balance

[Ascendancy]

I can only come from the point of view of a Corsair Gunboat, because it's the only capital ship to my name.

Honestly I feel that when I had 2 Order, Zoner, Corsair, and Solaris Turrets firing 'til forever, that something was wrong. I was seriously losing no power and could just keep dishing out damage 'til no tomorrow. Now that I replaced my 2 Zoner Turrets with Gunboat Battle Razors, I truly do have infinite power against fighters and can fire my Battle Razors for a very long time against capital ships. However unlike other gunboats out there, I know the Corsair one isn't the most agile and has a lot of turrets and all 8 of them can fire forward and backward.

In PvP experience, I only fought against other capital once in it -- the Bounty Hunter Gunship. Whoever had it mounted 4 Liberty Turrets + 2 Cerbs (which I hate so much...) couldn't really drain my shield and I eventually killed it after probably some 15-20 minutes.

But seriously, I shouldn't be able to fire regular turrets forever and ever and ever. There should be some strain on the power plant (that is, drain > regen) after some time of firing the turrets. I'm eventually going to replace my Gunboat with a Cruiser, but that's a whole other subject.


I know there was another thread on capital weaponry out there (I read it this morning or last night) and I would also love to see a difference in capital weapons from each faction/house. This way, maybe we can have some variation and perhaps even be able to drain a 500,000 power plant.

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