Gunships, a class of its own

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If this ship gets nerfed to hades as suggested, I'd rather have a class 10 fighter shield with a large pile of shield batteries than a transport shield.

@Igiss : if you're reading this and decide to make some changes to the Hacker Gunship, please do small incremental changes. When too many variables are changed at once the results are unpredictable.

@chopper : I don't think this is going to be a new class... didn't AoM clarify that above?

Generally the "Gunships/Sloops" would be kept as a Gunboat so no ID changes are necessary. Just the name Gunship was confusing me and i wanted to replace it with something else. Sloop was the best for me.

Frankly, I think Igiss should be asked straight up "Will you create a new class of ship, or will you instead just balance the current Gunships with the old Gunboats?" If he says "new class" then we go for major changes to the Gunships. But if he doesn't care to deal with all the overhead of making a new class of ship then care needs to be taken to ensure the Gunships become light & agile (but not "overpowered") gunboats, and not something else entirely.

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