Bias Concerning Snubcrafts (My Opinion and Suggestion to the Dev Team)

[Kalhmera]

A little bit about me,

I am Kalhmera, I came to this server around 2008, left for the Military then came back in 2015 and I have been known since then to exclusively fly cap ships (Mainly the Osiris). Now I am no expert and there are some people here with a bit more knowledge on caps as a whole. I feel I am still qualified to make an educated opinion on what I see around me and How it affects my game play experience. Most recently thanks to @Wesker and @Antonio I have been flying more snubs than ever before and I have to say I really do see the appeal. The ability to fly in a group and really get into snub combat is really taking over and I do enjoy the rush.

My opinion,

I honestly feel the Dev Team, mainly the one dealing with PvP have bias towards snubs. Most recently this Corona weapon was added and it has the ability to fire a devastating beam at a Battleship at 1k range and those of you who know, battleships cannot fire at bombers at that range. The Dev team wanted to make sure snubs was not affected heavily so they added a FL Hook probably created by @Kazinsal (only guessing you due to your position) to limit the damage depending on the size of the vessel. Pretty neat right? Well not so much, Battleships obviously have damage against them upped due to their size, while snubs due to their small size are not getting hit as hard. Now having the weapon at 1k range shows high reward with no risk. Now the dev team states that they wanted to start off small making minimal changes here and there to tweak it. Well the issue is Patches dont come every few days, its takes a week or two (or a month). Now you have a weapon that can wreck Battleships all because we wanted to make sure the snubs where ok first and we will worry about the capital ships later.

Battleship weaponry,

Battleship weapons do not have the ability to reliably challenge snub crafts. I have made my stance on this very clear to @"Aristaan" that Snubs and bombers should fear coming up to Battleship. Sadly they really dont have any fear at all. When the flaks was buffed I had a snub fly right on my behind (500m roughly) and start boxing because before the patch there was really nothing Caps could do to shooo them away. Well insert the new flaks and when that person was destroyed It was reverted back because it was "to powerful" Well here is another instance of snubs having the devs favorite spot.

What I propose,

~The Corona weapon needs to be nerfed to around 700-850m.
~Battleship secondaries, primaries, and Solaris need to have their projectile speed increased.
~The Head Dev @Xalrok To hold department heads more accountable for the decisions they make and ensure that Bias towards any class are not present.
~Ensuring new weapons that are implemented be looked over for both cap and snub effectiveness prior to implementation to avoid instances like the corona being way to overpowered.

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