Gunboats balance

[El Nino]

I agree with Mjolnir. Cruiser pilots are usually crap... or should I say unusually crapy... It seems that about 70M more that you need for a cruiser, doesn't put off traders from buying them... i've come to the observation that most power traders in sigma 13 want to buy either a cruiser or a battleship. They don't even consider gunboats... and since cruiser money can be made with a day they buy one... And with their trader like skills they engage hardtime pirates such as myself...

Pwnz roarz, //actually without a word// their usual strategy involves flying in turret screen, sometimes cruising if you get out of imediate range, but overall they just cannot aim. As such they loose teribly.

I've meet only two cruiser pilots who could fly to this day. Mon'Star and a KNF destroyer someone... No target was to big for them to take out, and they did it... So a well flown cruiser isn't a problem.

The main balance issue is the recharge rate on gunboats. That is there probably to charge those hungry forward guns. Wich are ballanced that hungry so bombers don't use them... Perhaps by leaving top 5 gun slots for capital ships, and make all fighter weapons from 1 to 5... (lvl 1 covering from 1 to 4, lvl 2 from 5 to 7, 3-8,3-9, 5- 10.. So fighters and bombers cannot use forward cannons, and energy consumption can be brought down... As this is a bit unbalanced, if you mount 8 order turrets wich are the most power hungry turrets, still your supply won't budge from 100%. Why don't Cruisers and Battleships have such great batteries is beyond me... this should be lowered in any case.

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