GB forward guns

[Jinx]

why are you not happy with the foreward gun stats? - roughly 20.000 damage at a quick fire rate and a reasonable amount of energy is fine, imo. decreasing the refire while increasing the damage neutralizes itself sort of - except that one has to aim better and a missed shot weight heavier against the gunboat.

increasing the energycost is meaningless for that matter, cause the gun fires less - however, one can not fire the foreward gun for a "bit" of damage when being low on energy - which means... less flexibility.

so whats the benefit and the greater anticap ability - unless you aim to unbalance the stats towards more damage. - but as long as you keep the ratio without increasing energy consumption and damage rediculously ( like 80.000 damage for 4 times the energy ( i guess that would be around 90% of a gunboats energy ) - things can pretty much stay the way they are.

there is a lot that can be tempered with - but there i d ask - why if its not only not broken, but also perfectly balanced. - one is easily tempted to meddle with the balance in favour for something. - like more projectile speed for more energy etc. - and quickly one has an imbalance problem.

edit: in order to make the GUNboats more capkillers than the gunboats without a foreward gun... - how would one balance the scorpion / corsair toolbox with their 8 guns against a kusari GB. - one cannot give the kusari GB with its 4 turrets + gun more anti-cap firepower than an eight gun gunboat. - not without seriously improving the gun. - which is a bad idea, imo. - at the same time, one cannot take away guns form the kusari GB to make it less anti-fighter. - it already has quite few turrets.

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