Government Roleplay And Transport Rework Feedback

[Prysin]

You guys are mad, because you shipped a beta-test sample of transport rework without telling people publicly that was what you were doing.

Beta test sample? What? Sorry? How'd we get here?

Perhaps the Houses themselves should do some PvP testing of these ships so they know where to place them in terms of regulations instead.

All I said is that we will iterate on the concept in the future and give ourselves more/better levers to turn to smoothen things out a bit. This is the norm with balance in any game.

First off, if the houses did some PvP testing and it turned out we somehow did manage to reliably kill a cruiser using the new ships, we both know your argument would be "your cruiser pilot is trash. That's not what we found during testing". Thus, the reasonable response from houses is NOT to do PvP testing, because we obviously don't have the competency to do it right, thus we must go by the age old "big gun scary" approach.

We're hoping to move away from BC Main Batteries as the "Get off me" option and instead give transports their own brand of exceptionally powerful (against warships) turrets with higher efficiencies but lower range. Keeping Cruisers and Gunboats in check then allows us to keep Transports' other stats (shield strength, armor, etc.) lower so that fighters, bombers, freighters and small transports can realistically be used for piracy. Due to the long range of BC Main Batteries we currently would have to make the Longhorn capable of 1v1ing Battleships just so we can keep Cruisers from destroying them in seconds. It's a stopgap of sorts.

your own words. Don't go arguing that this isn't a beta test. You yourself said you don't intend to keep them like this. You yourself said "its a stopgap of sorts".

just so we don't question the definition of "stopgap"

Synonyms of stopgap
: something that serves as a temporary expedient : makeshift
stopgap measures

I would argue the laws restricting the new ships, would also be "a stopgap of sorts".

No need to restrict something if it applies equally to all houses. At the current moment, it doesnt. So....

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