Cruiser Balance

[mjolnir]

You were on Harv. 17 and someone was on a Talarca with you (36 or 32 I think) hitting me with those razors just fine.

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This is the idea I'm attempting to put out there. Then again one may say how does one fully test something useing folks who may not comfortably know how to use every function? My answer, get fighter jocks in caps to test and cap jocks in fighters. Both are experienced to give an analysis, yet both will have the noob abilities in the give ship class.

Yes that's a perfect idea...

....and that's what I did myself... wanted to know what all those capship pilots talk about...

so I got myself a GB:
1. BHG GS... after few fights killing 2 bombers+ fighters etc. I started screaming how it's uber.. and everyone agreed
then
2. Rogue GB, Orca and others.. they are not overpowered but it's still reasonable to take good 1 bomber +2 fighters and win, so I realized most GB pilots can't aim.

=> then I got 2 Cruisers.. and found out that they can rape bombers if they surprise them, that they hit bomber with normal guns just fine.. and that Kusari dessie can rape GBs without breaking a sweat. => So I realized most Cruiser pilots can't aim either

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As I mentioned already (a few times) cruiser problems come mostly from GBs being overpowered against them. No cruiser alone should kill a BS of same skill. 2 Cruisers don't really have problems now - if they stay at range and don't try to overpower it from close by.
Cruiser should probably survive bombers a bit longer.. so that escorting fighters have time to hurt the bombers.. but that's about it.
Some increase in armor for cruisers.. and fixing the badly balanced ones:
Corsair Cruiser, Dragon Cruiser, Huntress... Zoner dessie is in my eyes primarily an RP ship, much like the coming GB.

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