Battleship Vs Fighters - Balance

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Let's take the Liberty Dread, it has a total of 840,000 Hull Points.

Flashpoints deal 277 damage per shot, multiply by 8.33 and you get 2,307.41 Damage per second, multiply by 4 and you get 9,229.64 Damage per second with all 4 Flashpoints

Let's take a standard VHF Core Capacity, which is 12,400. coupled with a 1270 Regeneration rate(per second)

Now flashpoints take 56 Core whenever they fire a shot, so 56 multiplied by 8.33 and then 4, equals to 1865, 1865 minus the Regen Rate of the Core, 1865 - 1270 = 595, 595 Core is drained per second from all 4 Flashpoints.
Divide 12400 with 595 and you get 20 seconds of continuous fire, 20 multiplied by 9,229(4 Flashpoint DPS) gives you 184,580 damage for 20 seconds, now multiply that by 4 (the number of fighters available) and you get 738,320 Hull damage in 20 seconds from 4 VHFs wearing 4 flashpoints , now waiting to regenerate all that Core back will take approximately ~9 seconds, and then the VHFs deliver their blow again, destroying the battleship in 5 more seconds.

But with Cap Armor, let's take Heavy Armor Upgrade IV, which multiplied the armour of the BS by 3, meaning the Liberty Dread now has 2,520,000 Armor, this means that the ~45 seconds spent firing, waiting for the Core to regen and fire again are now tripled, to 135 seconds, Now add up the nanobots that fully heal the Battleship, now it takes 270 seconds to kill it, now add the time that the snubs will spend dodging the fire coming from the Dread and the fight will last about 300-600 seconds, in this time the Dread knows it's getting damaged real fast, so in this time it will probably call for Anti-Snub support or Run away and dock, but this calculation shows how much Snubs can overpower capitals

Now let's calculate the longest cap battle (lawful one) Let's take the Turtle(Rheinland BS) which has 1,400,000 Hull Points

Put on Capital Armor Upgrade VIII on it and its armor is now multiplied by 4, which makes it have 5,600,000 Hull Points

5,600,000 divided by 738,520 equals 7.5, which means you need to deliver 7 and a half of those 20 second continuous blows to the Hull(including all 4 snubs), so 20 seconds multiplied by 7.5 makes it 150 seconds, adding in the approximate ~9 seconds of Core recharge, multiplied by 7.5 gives an additional 56 seconds, making it ~200 seconds now

Add in the Nanobots it's now 400 seconds, add in the dodging and stuff, and add in when the shields go up and you gotta take them down, fights can last up to 900 seconds(15 minutes)

I probably made some mistakes in some calculations, but the time spent is close enough, do whatever you wish with this Info, but i'm pretty amazed how Flashpoints deliver so much Damage over Time.

Also: downing the Battleship shield is an additional 22 seconds, provided each VHF has 2 Debs and does continuous fire to the BS Shield.

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