' Wrote:i think the hackers, rogue, kusari, BHG gunship should all have only 4 forward firing turrets anyway - if they have more, its too much... .
Kusari and Rogue GBs are not in the "class of gunships"...not by size and not by agility...in the terms of FL gunship class does not exist. We made that up. Why?...to keep two of unbalanced ships and try to balance them to "lower" class...and that is wrong...
Hacker gunship is very weird ship. It is too big, not very FL and atm too slow...it is in no way a gunship except for its hull strength...it should become full GB...
To that "class" belongs new Zoner GB...It has the size of normal GB..
so why not making it real GB?...
As for old Rogue and now BHG model of current gunship. I flew that ship long ago as part of my character. At that time server had only half on todays visits, and there was not many people who used that ship. It was by far weakest GB according to stats.
However its agility and, even more, its very small hit box made that ship unbalanced. Many people who fought me at that time thought that i am very ood in a GB...thing is, no matter how good i am, wrong hit box did my job so much easier.
Did you know that Rogue GB was first model ever to be replaced by another one?...Size/unbalance of old model was the reason. New Rogue GB however is the size of the Liberty GB, slightly smaller then RH GB and about the size of Kusari one...only compared to the rest of imported ships it is smaller...(excluding overgrown bret GB...but brets never were good at miniaturization:P)...and foremost, it has quite good matching hit box...
As i see it...Hacker and Zoner GBs could easily be made to full GB, as they should be...and that leaves us with two BHG gunboats...one is clearly too much, and thus whole charade of "gunship" class...
It leaves me one question...why BHG of all factions (especially Houses) developed two GBs...when for all other houses only one does the job for what it was designed.
This is only my opinion, but that BHG gunship should become somewhat of "explorer" ship like old dragon GB...and BHG ship line would have nice and clear situation considering ship classes...
