Revert cruiser slots changes

[Akhetaten]

In a nutshell, I think Discovery suffers from treating its capital ships like oversized smallcraft. Primarily forward facing guns, some restricted arcs here and there, with slower fire rates and projectile speeds to balance out their loadouts against smallcraft, but ultimately just bulky smallcraft with restrictive turn rates. The problem with this is that it creates the aforementioned stale gameplay of "fly straight at enemy and hold right click". This is okay to have, to a degree, with smallcraft because the goal is to strike hard and fast and then quickly get away. Capital ships do not have this maneuverability nor should they have it. Discovery's attempts to change this do not actually change it, because you have positioned the weapon arcs all over the ship, making the gameplay loop the same - fly at enemy (to fire mortars, etc.), turn (maybe fire a few broadside shots), then kite and try to out-range as much as possible.

I'm just gonna quote this instead of quoting your entire post, as it makes a better tldr in my opinion, and say that you clearly aren't "back into the game" enough. The stuff that you list that should be done to cap ships and everything you list as what discovery does wrong are all things already realized by Haste.

It makes reading your post really funny when you make all those remarks about how broadside combat with powerful broadside guns is what capships need - and not powerful front guns to reinforce a chasing playstyle - when that's literally how the game is already played. Try Battlecruisers if you haven't already and you'll see all those things in effect.

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