Cruiser Balance

[chopper]

The supernova is capable of firing around 4 seconds sooner than a cruiser shield can recharge from the last shot. That means every other supernova you fire - at least if you hit the target - will hit his hull. The only thing that interferes with that is shield batteries, which are limited in supply.

Quite true.. You know when? When you have full energy, fire first and wait for the second.
After second one you are completely down on energy and every next recharge for SN shot is after cruiser shield recharges.
You can calculate it easily.
This is for 48k bombers, of course. (both RCat and Falcata being 48k)
58k bombers can fire 1 for shield, one for hull, 1 for shield, 1 for shield, 1 for hull.. Pattern..

EDIT :

Here, to help you out a bit.

48k/2.2k bomber. You fire one SN (38k) and you are down to 10k energy. Let's say Cruiser shield is down now.
You need 28k energy to fire another SN to the hull. That is 12.7 seconds.
Cruiser shield recharges in 11.5 seconds.
So not even first and second one can pull it off.

While 58k/2.4k bomber can pull it off like I said.
You fire one SN, you are down to 28k. Shield is down now and you need only 5.5 seconds (refire is 0.17 anyway, so that means around 6.5) to fire another one.
After that you are down to 0 and you need to wait for recharge for around 16 seconds.
And then it takes some time to lower it's shield again, around 2-3 SN's in order to fire one more to the hull.
It's very slow, yep.
So, either you watched the guy killing a cruiser with Daitos, or you simply didn't see what really happened.:)

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