(04-22-2015, 02:44 PM)jammi Wrote: Except in the scenario you've outlined - caps interfering with 'aces' in an ongoing furball, these changes would make no difference. Their arrival would still force those 'aces' to flee the fight, breaking up the 'matchmaking' you mentioned. It's exactly the same result as before, except with the chance of a blue at the end of it being a minuscule chance smaller.
All you'd be doing is making battleships less fun to use (i.e. more tedious by making them even slower), and massively reducing cruisers' utility as an anti-battleship platform.
Removing thrusters from gunboats also strikes me as a bad decision, given that many of them (gunships in particular) are designed as anti-bomber/snub platforms. Poorly thought out idea that doesn't address the core issue the OP is concerned about.
Please mate, call them fairplayers, not aces, or "aces". No skill is needed to be fair and help matchmaking. And not all aces are logging to weaker side, unfortunately. I'm actually trying to encourage more players to be part of fair Disco matches, no matter of skill.
Caps captains would have to learn cruising at speed 200 on EK for interfering, to be more effective. That's some skill. They would have to think in advance. Some would be forced to learn TS/Z. Did you notice how many chasers can't use TS/Z, specially GB captains? And if they don't do it right, furball will simply remove to another place and continue pewing. Not to mention BSs will be left alone, w/o GB cover, open to bombers attack.
Cruisers being anti-BS platform? Yes, mostly in Conn, 1 on 1. I failed to see fair BS vs. CR duel in space for a long time. There are more ships involved (most of the time) and with no-thrusters model you'd need 2 CRs for one BS, or even more. Idk about you, but I think it's more fair?
And finally, I do want to keep GBs as ultimate anti-bomber/snub platforms. I just don't find fair that platforms can actively chase snubs. Platforms should keep ground and cover something. Snubs must come to them.
