factionized flagships

[Dusty Lens]

To be quite honest, adding the new hardpoints and coding them in would take ... 5 minutes? Not a great deal of time. Especially if you know -exactly- what you're doing.

I'd say factions should get to choose 2 of 3 things, maybe ...

1) Improved armor
2) 2 more guns
3) Bigger energy supply

Of course there are plenty of other things that could be added, that's just a suggestion.

I prefer to err on the side of caution, to be honest. While it's easy to do a thing, it's a pain in the backside to undo a thing.

It'd only take two seconds to restore the old Outcast dessy with its dual Libety Cannons or a Raven Talon with supernova capability, but that doesn't mean you -should-.

There's a reason why MKI cruisers need loving, because people pilot them in turret mode and die to bombers and gunships. Also because the roles that they play need to be re-evaluated and balanced accordingly. At the moment cruisers act chiefly as more vulnerable gunboats than anything else. Simply doubling the armor isn't going to do anything save cause it to live longer, not solve any underlying balance issues.

I do agree that caps need major re-evaluation. Granted I'm a small ship kinda guy, but I do own a secret destroyer and pair of gunboats (pirating in a gunboat makes me feel dirty though, like stepping out of college to go grab lunch money at the nearby primary) and I fight them all the time as a ZnO.

That being said, I'm sticking to my original point that the community will snarl and hiss at factionalized battleships, and that we've plenty of other balancing issues amongst the heavier portions of Discovery's fleet to tackle before we start blissfully churning out MKII versions.