Ok... ship balancing

[Tenacity]

the reason I prefer that 'rock paper scissors' balancing method, at least for online situations like we have here, is because it forces people to work together rather than play solo all the time.

You team up with people using different ship classes to make up for your own weaknesses. It encourages teamwork, and in the end you get larger battles that feel more 'epic'.

Dont know about you, but i'm tired of getting into pvp fights where everyone is in battleships, VHF's, and bombers only. Look at some of the planned pvp events between corsairs and outcasts, where only fighter-type ships are used... the battles last hours on end. The less-planned pvp encounters usually end up being who has the biggest ship or the most bombers on their side.

I just dont think anyone ship should function equally well against all other ship classes. Everything should have a very defined, very apparent weakness, and they should be required to team up with someone else who can protect that weakness - or have it exploited.

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