Salvager and Raba regen counts: too high?

[Pancakes]

At least tell it right. I never said my salvager died to two gunboats, although that's happened often enough. I was actually talking about a time four salvagers died to two gunboats within 40k of a base.

The question is not whether or not a salvager would live x distance, but whether or not a ship in similar size hold would.

And the answer is no, it won't. Most 3kerish transports have ~400 regens, the 2 Frigates have 700 for Raba and 750 for Salvager - explain to me why, Hawk?

Lets make a comparsion between Salvager and Pirate Transport:
(1) Model-Wise size (not that it actually matters very much in these ranges with these kind of guns but lets do it anyway):
Salvager is about twice as bigger from the above, however it's twice as thin from the front and the side - conclusion - attack Salvager from above and Pirate Transport from the side and you'll be golden in both cases

(2) Turn-rate:
23.87 (deg/sec) Maximum turn rate for Pirate Transport, and 22.92 (deg/sec) for Salvager.
Pirate Transport has a maximum turn-rate higher in 4% than Salvager (meager amount)
Salvager however, accelerates about 30% faster than Pirate Transport does, giving it slightly better edge in terms of responsiveness that is much needed to avoid, SNACs, for example

(3) Armor and Regens:
Salvager - 160,000 basic hull, 750 regens
Pirate Transport - 115,000 basic hull 450 regens

In this category you can see a major difference, Salvager has ~40% more basic hull plating, and 67% more Regens
I'd like to remind you all that they are both ships under the same class.

(4) Cargo space:
Salvager - 3350
Pirate Transport - 2900

Salvager has 15% more cargo space

(5) Armament:
Salvager - 7 guns, can mount both transport and GB turrets
Pirate Transport - 9 guns, can only mount transport turrets

(6) Power Core:
Salvager - 400,000 with 40,000 e/sec regen rate
Pirate Transport - 70,000 with 6,000 e/sec regen rate

Salvager has 471% more basic power core, and 567% more regen rate of the power core



So please Hawk, please present me how Salvager is underpowered because 4 of you couldn't run from 2 GUNBOATS for over 40k, which were as you said BDS thus is probably from about 3 years ago when Salvager didn't have the neat Gunboat core like it does now.

EDIT: The only thing I missed out are the gun arcs, and that's because I can't really recall them now, nor be bothered to go check it out, though IIRC at least to the forward Salvager can fire 6 and pirate transport 7. But that's from the depths of my memory, so if anyone cares to add it - please do.