Ok... ship balancing

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the LPI have upgraded to liberators, just so you know. which means they can use debs to strip shields.

as to your idea of having a gb that deals only with gbs, well, i dunno where you been living mate, but liberty consists of nothing but gbs 'specialized' to take out fighters and bombers, what with all of them aving an average of 3-6 missile turrets and a roleplay that involves eating xenos (who fly vanillay fighters, incidently, and are restricted to fighters/bombers at that)

all the changes you state will not work, since freelancer does not have any principles that are even remotely close to what you have suggested. its a game, with alot of the stuff is made up. you really think that all the stuff you said there is actually guna work?

a LF can take out a a HF, a VHF, a bomber, in a 1v1. right, but we are not talking about 1v1s. in a fleet battle, 3 LFs, can rip a gb up. easy.

a bomber can take out every ship class. on its own, it can take out everything but a bs, but there again, the pilot has to be seriously, exceptionally good. otherwise, poof go your dreams of pwning a gb/cruiser in a 1v1. a bomber will find it -really- hard to take out a LF, purely because, if a LF utilizes its agility in the correct manner, it would become untouchable.

then i see you talk about how 2 fighters and a bomber manage to take out many of Liberty's caps. firstly, it requires practice. the people you fight aint a bunch of noobs, they fly ships that a specialised to take out cap ships in the first place.

a gb will always win in a 1v1 against a bomber, but only if the gb pilot knows how to fly. its more than easy to dodge like... 8/10 sn shots in a gb, even if ure an average pilot.

there is gb spam on both the liberty side, AND the indy pirate side. the HF (the faction i lead with Razr) has got its caps, but they havent seen action. infact, they havent even left vespucci to fight, save for 1 time, i took the goldenflame out to do a bit of roleplay. the LH use their fighters and bombers mostly, with the occasional LF and transports.

to put things in context, lesse.

the last time i went to Liberty on my HF bomber, along with 2 more fighters, and joined by a second bomber about halfway into the fight, we faced, 2 bcs, 4 gbs, 3 bombers, 7 fighters, 1 cruiser (these are all lawful/bh ships), then, the xenos come in 2 bombers and 3 fighters, and we get help from a hacker gunship, with 6 missile turrets. -.-

so all in all, including my rant, i say a bit no to anything you have suggesting in this post.

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