Capships, increasingly slower fighters? Or strategic weapons?

[sovereign]

The whole basis of balancing Battleships is that they have trouble hitting Fighters and Bombers. I'd rather not lose the one weapon us small-ship types have against the capwhores:P

When was the last time that an NPC bship hit you? If you pick your range right, it's rather hard for them to hit.



However, the aiming reticule is so easy to fool it isn't funny. I aim everything by hand using the reticule as a rough guide for what my opponent is doing (strafe, EK, etc) and, while splitting turrets and maneuvering would be nice, it takes the skill out of it entirely- as well as making it impossible to hit anything (hit x when they are about to fire their one shot per five seconds, the auto-aim would miss every time). What would be nice is if the turn keys worked in turret mode, which would fix the problem of "aim or move" that keeps me from bothering with anything larger than a GB.

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