Gunboat power supply balance

[Baltar]

and its a nerf that doesn t hurt them much in their usual mission. - only heavy special weapons and cerberus turrets will be affected some more. - ( and missiles, cause we don t know yet how igiss balances the energy need of them )

All goes to economy of energy. Don't mount Cerbs if you don't have the power source for it. This forces the owner to balance firepower with weapons regen rate. In the end ... its not the heavy weapons that win the fight ... its the ability to keep the guns firing.

Capacity won't hurt them much.. But regeneration rate will. They won't be able to shoot all the time, like they could 'till now.
Especially light ones.
And they might even try to use more effective weapons. As it is now, everyone puts the best (DPS), and still can't loose any energy.
And that sucks!:)

Yup ... heavy weapons should be avoided with smaller ships.

Damn, is the Osiris getting another nerf? I'm a bit unsettled by this, the most advanced ship, with the tiniest powercore... darn...

If this is to take effect with battleships, the whole balance would have to be redesigned... As things are BS are about equal to eachother, allthou some are more equal than others... It is strange thou how some battleships can fire advanced turrets without drain, while others struggle even with the basic turrets, due to their large size...

In the end battleships would be unbalanced if such a change came in to effect, it would be realistic, but since battleships are unrealisticly priced each at 750M... many things would have to be changed...

Back to GB's, voted yes. And I agree that all capital ships should have variable power cores... //Eventhou what I said up regarding balance issues.

I for one would like to see the battleships downgraded a bit. I'm sure if there were more battleship vs battleship battles this would be important. But here in Disco land ... battleships are used almost exclusively to hunt and kill pirates in gunboats and fighters.

I have no sympathy for battleships getting nerfed ... I think its about time. Maybe they'll be used for what they're intended ... actual warfare.