Cruiser Balance

[Telbasta]

yea, I do fly a gunboat... one of the weaker ones (hull strength wise). Basically the issue is that if you reduce gun ranges on gunboat turrets, they'll become ineffective against anything but smaller craft. Cruisers already tear us up if we get too close because their weapons do a lot more damage than ours. In a straight head on firefight a cruiser will always beat a gunboat - the gunboat can only win by maintaining range and using higher speed to dodge.

I think if you end up reducing ranges on our normal turrets (and maybe forward guns), you're just going to see a lot more 'missile-boat' spamming. At least there are a lot of balanced gunboats out there right now, but if you make our weapons ineffective against larger ships we're going to be forced into specializing against the only things we're still able to kill - bombers and fighters.

There will be an uproar from those bomber and fighter pilots if every gunboat they see is running with 4-6 missile turrets.

in the end you only fix one problem to create another.

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