Ok... ship balancing

[mrlance]

I am completely novice concerning capital ships.
I'd like to see a gunboat like a support ship for a fighter wing or as a scout in a capital fleet. With missiles they disturb fighter assault, with gun turrets they offer a fire support. It is not the "survival" ship, it is part of a wing or fleet.

I read few thing about the uber BH Gunship. Might the result is to have all the gunboat work like the BH Gunship ? What we need to avoid is to increase the attractivnes of the Gunboat, because it will force the spam of capital ship class9-10. Gunboat is spamming in the pirate side. I can see the reaction of the lane hackers trying to limit the access to affiliated and ID LH only. I think the purpose is to avoid a LH gunship spam.

I dunno where is the unbalance right now. All work with action/reaction. Unbalance is more between same class ships than between different class ships. Spam Cap ships--> spam Bombers --> spam VHFs --> Spam Gunboats --> spam Cap ships --> Spam Bomber.Today we see the gunboats all over sirius, tomorrow the battlecruiser, and the next day Bombers. After all, it is what makes the server so unpredictable.

What i like to see is maybe more advanced Light Interceptor or maybe heavy fighter. The bomber appears to be the ultimate fighter in the hand of a great pilot. About ship balancing, we barely see Light Fighters. Are they so useless ?

Edit : I realise that I have a biased opinion. I do not fly capital ships. My pleasure is with fighters. So my main action is to react against the worse ennemy of the fighter class, the gunboat. Well... in the end, opinion is never neutral and objective i guess.

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