Gunboat power supply balance

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Recommend the title of this thread be changed to 'Capship Powerplant Balance', seeing as it's moved a bit beyond Gunboats. That or a topic split or something.

I've written this up using the current model sizes in this version of the mod. Revisions can be made in the betas once I have access to all of the CMPs if this is going anywhere. I'm ignoring the names of the ships as I construct this, as they have no real bearing on the ships combat effectiveness. I am instead classifying them by their model size, as this is a more accurate measure of what kind of power supply they could support. These are alphabetized as they appear in Datastorm. The Spyglass has been moved down because of its infocard. Consider moving the carrier down as well. The current Cruiser standard powerplant has become the minimum powerplant (let's face it, we all know they need a boost). Battlecruisers are now universally 3,600,000 (Liberty Assault Battlecruiser was at 4,000,000, God help us). I have not attempted to do Gunboats myself as I know relatively little about the class and don't consider myself knowledgeable enough for the task.

Note: In my opinion (cliche' phrase number one) the minimum Battleship powerplant should be 7,000,000 and maintain the intervals below, but that would just turn into an ego contest between the capship players and the fighter/bomber players again (and, worse, the faction-indie debate), so I've balanced it using the current powerplant as the standard instead of the minimum.

Battleships

Light Battleships: 6,000,000-powerplant

• Battlestar
  
• Battlestar Advanced
  
• Bounty Hunter Battleship
  
• Osiris
  

Medium Battleships: 7,000,000

• Dragon Battleship (Togo)
  
• Liberty Dreadnought
  
• Outcast Battleship
  

Heavy Battleships: 8,000,000

• Bretonian Battleship
  
• Corsair Dreadnought
  
• Hacker Spyglass
  
• Liberty Carrier
  
• Outcast Dreadnought
  

Dreadnoughts: 8,500,000

• Battlestar II (Admin-Only)
  
• Corsair Dreadnought (4.82 Venator-Class Version)(Admin-Only)
  
• Kusari Battleship
  
• Nomad Battleship (Restricted)
  
• Rheinland Battleship
  
• Zoner Juggernaut
  

Cruisers

Destroyers: 1,400,000

• Bounty Hunter Destroyer
  
• Kusari Destroyer
  
• Nomad Cruiser (which I expect will be replaced. It has a Nomad Gunboat hitbox...if so upgrade)
  
• Talarca Cruiser
  
• Zoner Destroyer
  

Cruisers: 1,800,000

• Dragon Cruiser (Forward Gun)
  
• Liberty Cruiser (Forward Gun)
  
• Outcast Destroyer
  
• Rheinland Pirate Cruiser (Consider downgrade)
  

Heavy Cruisers: 2,250,000

• Bretonia Destroyer
  
• Corsair Cruiser
  
• Red Hessian Cruiser
  
• Rheinland Cruiser
  

Battlecruisers: 3,600,000

• Albatross Battlecruiser
  
• Bounty Hunter Battlecruiser
  
• Liberty Assault Battlecruiser
  

Help Revise Me. Maybe we can get a working proposal up and submit it for consideration.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.