Gunboats balance

[Tenacity]

4) All gunboat energy regen needs to be dropped to 50k or so instead of the current 65k. Gunboats are fine vs fighters/bombers IMO (that's their job after all), but as it stands right now gunboats have too much energy to spam forward-guns/razors/infernos against other capships. With its current energy, even if you went all regular gun turrets you'd *still* need multiple cerbs just to lose any energy at all while firing, which is just silly. Gunboats shouldn't have enough energy to go toe to toe with cruisers in a razor/inferno shootout (or to swarm battleships as well as they do now), especially since cruiser weapons are much less energy-efficient.

My liberty gunboat has 7 liberty gunboat defense turrets and it's forward gun. Even with one turret turned off (to simulate making that top rear gun rear-arc only), I still run out of firing energy after about 15 seconds of shooting. The forward gun itself uses up a good 1/8th of the total energy ont he ship. It regenerates quick, but still doesnt allow me to fire all my weapons at normal speed once my energy drains down to rock bottom. It cuts my forward gun firing time in half, give or take.











And as for my input on the thread... we need a Junker specific gunboat.

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