I belive everyone could agree, shields should not make your ship defenseless, Yes, i can understand they have high capacity (they not) and high regen (can barely resist one fighter and unable to hold one bomber striking you actually even with basic guns)
But with the brightest idea of balance while is a good thing, a crusier usually has between 30 to 50K at most of power regen force, while the shields to keep regenerating when damaged, they well ... use half or more of that power?
For a ship having 40K of Power Regen asking 22500 is kinda too much for such ... if you are under attack only letting you able to shoot with 1 turret or you will get serious core energy issues, not matter which gun you wanna use
Because a gun using almost 10 times higher energy usage than damage, is kinda funny to see it, (it is supposed to be a capital gun, while i can be glad having some refirerate to better suit the thing, i belive the damage is too low and the energy usage is too high for it) 5.6K ~~ or that approximate for shoot a turret per shot (using like 26K of energy for just one turret per second)
Dunno who is behind this "Balanced things" ... but since the update, the supposed "Defense Turrets" are not actually defensive ones, just "Medium Type Turrets"
I could accept having medium turrets, and heavy turrets and use high amounts of energy, but your basic guns crusier light class guns (namely basics or faction secondaries should use a lot less energy, maybe 3x lower as their damage isn't too much actually, or at least make shields do not drain almost 40-50% of your regen energy, is ridiculous, that is why are capital ships, they supposed to outpaced any class below them, or make a new formula of crusiers always take up 30% of energy core not matter what ship it is deployed, if your ship has lower energy regen output then the shield will consume less, and it will increase accordingly the power output ...
This isn't an issue of just this class (Crusiers) is an issue of all classes from gunboats to any capital ship, i want a real capital ship, not that pieces of junk where it is needed just 1 annoying fighter or 1 annoying bomber using basic guns (no torpedos, no nothing) to get my shields down, c'mon, they are capitals, not weaklings
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