Discovery 4.82 Beta features, bugs & suggestions

[Nightfall]

You got me wrong, mate. I was tryin' to say just up the fifth gun moun to ten. Getting a forward firing turret would mean moving it, which isn't worth bothering, and would, in effect, make the Wrath well overpowered. Which would end with an overbalance... And we'll just not go there.

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OK, glad we solved that. The Avenger and Guardian are around the performances of a Wrath but they do have the same layout plus a 360 degree firing turret, so I guess the Wrath might be OK to have 5x Class 10 gun/missile mounts...

No, because then no VHFs can use them at all. Making piracy with them impossible. Plus LFs don't have the firepower to punch through a transport. Only against freighters and other fighters. Can't take the CDs off VHFs. Traders would then be invincible, except against gunboats.

I say leave it as it is. They choose between one or the other. They can't have both. But neither should the VHF be limited to one (LF is for obvious reasons..).

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Dab, my reference was to a lot of people practicing the 'come to a system and get yourself chased for 3 hours if there are more than 2 chars on you' routine, you have to admit that 2 VHFs with Novas can't do too much to a good capship pilot without them having shieldbusters. I wouldn't be ranting about this, but a lot of people are doing that. They will of course come and attack a single VHF. Or do we get to mounting 4x Tizona and a Nova? or something similar?

Stupid idea probably: have an 'Interdictor' Gun (class9) that would be the energy gun variant of the cruise disruptor missile? I don't know, I've seen a lot of stupid ideas here, I might put one myself...

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