Cruiser Balance

[Tenacity]

Well, if Mortars would be made any faster, they would be used for sniping fighters which would be ridiculous...

speed isnt entirely the issue, though they are pretty slow and difficult to aim at any distance over 1k.

The issue is energy cost for damage output. Compare the mini razor to a gunboat or cruiser razor... it does more than twice the damage, for about a tenth of the energy cost. That is not balanced.

The light mortar costs 500,000 energy to do something like 48,000 damage. A cruiser (at least, my zoner destroyer) is only able to fire two light mortars before being run dry of energy, and the energy regen rate on cruisers is absolutely laughable.

when my zoner dessie's setup was 2 light mortars + 7 order cruiser turrets, those two light mortars dropped my energy bar to about 10-15%. If I fired all 7 of the cruiser turrets after that, my energy would drain further... basically it allowed me to use those mortars -once- in a fight, and after that I had either significant downtime while waiting for my energy to regen, or was stuck using normal turrets (and less than most other ships have) for the rest of the fight.

All of the capship 'special' weapons need to be remade. They cost too much energy for too little damage at the moment.

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