factionized flagships

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I think perhaps that all capital ship guns should be made refire 1, maybe some with refire 2 tops. They should have a slower speed but do a huge amount of damage. On top of this, their shields and armour should be boosted massively.

So, then you have capital ships that really are not much threat to fighters/bombers who can whiz around them and fighters/bombers will largely not be a threat to capital ships. Bombers will still be able to smack down capital ships with 5-6 of them, and capital ships MAY be able to kill bombers (or even fighters) IF they are lucky and the pilots are really crap and don't really dodge.

That way you'll remove people's "need" to PvP whore anything smaller than destroyers or even gunboats in capital ships because they'll be too difficult to hit. Conversly, capital ships will be able to ignore/shrug off all but the largest formations of bombers. Then you end up with good, tough capital ships for extended capital to capital battles and RP, a use for fighters (keeping those bomber formations off the caps), a use for bombers (in reasonable numbers instead of 1-2), and less people whoring capital ships except to fight other capital ships, simply because they can't do anything in them except really fight other capital ships.

Obviously it'd all need to be ironed out and stuff, but I think that might work.

/signed :yahoo: + what i said 'bout gunboats

You've missed the whole idea of the thread. The idea here is to have 1 special flagship per faction. There would still be the normal ships, but on top of that, there would be a super-flagship. Nobody is saying all battleships should be removed, and replaced with only 1 flagship.

not missin the point here. I just think that adding extra firepower is unnecessary while the community still has problems with properly using the existing ones.

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