Gunboats balance

[Telbasta]

Eh, up the energy consumption on normal turrets. That alone will help.

without significantly increasing damage output on those turrets I dont think it will do anything but hurt GB's.

Normal turrets dont do enough damage against anything larger than a fighter/bomber. Unless you're using 6-8 normal turrets, you wont even be able to break through another cap's shields with them alone.

The heavy hitting gunboat weaponry - battle razors, infernos, and cerberus turrets - all suck energy pretty quickly, they're balanced just fine aside from gunboat razors/infernos being next to useless compared to cerberus guns.

Missiles also use a pretty large amount of energy, the only reason they dont drain a gb's energy down on their own is because of low refire rate - unless you're using 4+ missile turrets you wont run out of energy solely by using them. If you use a couple cerberus turrets with your missiles, you'll have energy problems and probably wont be able to fire your missiles half the time due to the drain from the cerbs.

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