Pirates vs Traders PvE/PvP

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the bomber transport balance is absolutely disgusting right now

FTFY. It's not bombers - which have to be at their power level to actually do their job against capitals - that are the issue. It's not even the rework. Pre-rework a Hellfire Rocket Pod bomber could shred an armoured 5k in something like 15-20 seconds. It wasn't any better. SNACs even have a much lower multiplier against transports now than before.

While the majority of ships in the mod have gotten buffed into viability over time, Transports are the only class that instead has seen more nerfs than buffs - at least when looking at 5ks, the most common choice of transport. This is dumb.

Realistically transports are perhaps tied with gunboats in how direly they need a balance pass. They might even have gunboats beat. Transports need vastly more survivability in return for - probably - slow travel times under fire (destructible thruster(s) that provide the majority of their speed, for example). This would make piracy much more interesting, and if the time-to-kill of transports was high enough it would even make escorting an actual viable activity. Yes, I know, escorts can fly ahead. I mean escorting in the way you see NPCs do, where they fly alongside their transport convoy leader attempting to defend it. Good luck doing that now, or at any point in the past decade.

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