Capships, increasingly slower fighters? Or strategic weapons?

[Colonel Z.e.r.o.]

mainly, cause it would be a dull server with only bombers around. - but you really cannot expect a battleship to withstand "reasonable" firepower ( reasonable does not mean realistic - reasonable is what forces you can "generally" muster to attack someone - and that is very often some 3 or 4 people )

i think everyone would agree that this is not ww2 and these battleships share nothing with ww2 battleships other than their class description. - but making them as powerful as they "ought" to be ( from the point of view of a fighter ) would mean to make them too powerful.

they should prolly be just like the stationary BBs. - when you fire on them, they won t budge or take any damage. - when you disable their guns, they are repaired after some time - but you simply cannot kill them with some fighter ( think of original freelancer with the titan as the heaviest fighter and no bombers )

now that they are playerships though, they need to be somewhat weaker than they "ought" to be, cause otherwise its simply no fun - for both, the battleship AND the fighters. - how much fun is it to fly a ship that is invincible to pretty much everything?

but its an act of balance to achieve a "hard enough to kill" ship that can dish out significantly much damage without taking any chance from an attacker. - on the other side, we do also not want bombers that are invincible - and thats what makes it hard... and all that meets somewhere in the middle ... as a compromise.

bombers will not be like they ought to be - and battleships will not be like that either. - but we try to get as close as possible to a state where a battleship "feels" as if its worth its money and a bomber feels as if it has a chance to actually hurt the battleship, too.

Thank you

The only reason why things are the way they are is to keep the game relatively fun. You'll realize every gamrhas intentional gitches and mechanics that would other wise be impossible when compared to their real life counterparts.

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