Battleship Vs Fighters - Balance

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Higher cost =/= more powerful. All you really get by paying is a larger number of players required to bring you down. And a little "ease of use" I suppose with turret zoom and how simple cap v. cap combat is (for the most part).

Making the number of players required to kill caps even higher is an awful idea considering the server's dwindling population. Right now you already need 1/10th of the server's average population to log a bomber to bring down a battleship in a reasonable amount of time. Making it 50% of the server's population is really not a good idea.

At most I'd consider splitting the classes eve-style. Caps' weapons would be limited by turret rotational speed and weapon velocities, making them extremely unlikely to hit snubs. At the same time, cap hulls would be buffed up a fair bit (making only hardpoints feasible targets, and even those could be beefed up to make only bombers capable of scratching them) as well as shields. Then you'd end up with snub versus snub brawls and cap versus cap battles. Probably easier to balance. Not sure if people would actually want this though, nor am I sure what it'd mean for bomber / cap & bomber / snub balance.

To everyone suggesting we make battleships SRP / official faction restricted: hello, we already have hundreds if not thousands of the damn things in-game. I bet a miniscule portion (perhaps less than one percent) of all caps are official-faction-bound. That's not something that can be rolled back. In addition, caps are something new players in particular find very appealing about the mod, and we really need fresh blood to keep the server going.

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