Capital Ship Point Defense

[Tenacity]

To be honest, i think its how things should be. Caps should be pathetic against small craft and should be backed up by escorts for every small runaround.

This ideal looks great on RP paper, but nobody seems to realize that there simply arent enough server slots for every military faction to fly around in groups of 10+ ship battlefleets. It is not something that is currently workable, or likely ever will be, so trying to base balance on the fact that escorts will be around 100% of the time is flawed right out of the barrel.

Cruisers are artilery right? Well, you have support for that, as you dont shoot flies with a rpg.


Sure its frustrating that a 200mil worth of tech cannot defent itself against a 7mil worth pewpew ship, but it is how things are. Sorry. But its perfectly in Rp.

Take a look at modern warships. Even the heavy artillery craft have small machineguns and anti-aircraft guns for defense, despite how rarely they're used. Now, yes, we do have turrets that are -supposed- to fill that defensive role, but right now they're all so poorly balanced none of them are worth using.

Let's do a comparison here, shall we? In WW2, a single bomber plane, no matter how good it was, could not ever possibly hope to take on even a cruiser, it didnt have enough ammo and would likely be shot down by flak long before it got a bomb dropped.

Here, only battleships have flak guns, those flak guns are barely usable for most battleships as is, and the guns that are supposed to be 'anti fighter' dont have a long enough range for anything but the smallest capships to use them.

Another comparison, WW2 and modern naval vessels had dozens upon dozens of weapons. Most WW2 destroyers would have 4-5 heavy turrets for attacking other large ships, 2-3 torpedo tube arrays for dealing with bigger craft like carriers and battleships, anywhere from 6-12 small machine guns for use against aircraft and small water craft, and generally 6-8 anti-aircraft guns.

Cruisers (the equivalent ship type) in disco have 10-12 guns on average. For a decent anti-cap setup, you need to use at least 6 of those weapon hardpoints on anti-cap weaponry, leaving you 4-6 at most for anti-fighter weaponry, generally in inconvenient hardpoint locations creating huge blind spots that fighters/bombers can take advantage of.

I realize it isnt feasible to make capships with 20-30 turrets each, but we need to make better use of the few turrets we -do- have. The antifighter weaponry is underpowered right now and does not hold fighters or bombers at bay like it's supposed to, that needs to be fixed.

Bombers have in their arsenal heavy anti-cap weapons which have up to 3-4k range, they should not be flying in on viagra pills and humping the crap out of a capship to avoid the cap's anti fighter weapons, and they shouldnt be safe at 900m where they will never miss with novas or supernovas... ever.

Bombers and fighters are small craft with the weakest military weaponry (in-rp) available, they are utilized as agile combat platforms, not as tanks. They SHOULD rightly fear capships, because capships have the most powerful weaponry (again, only in-rp since balance is completely out of whack on this server), shielding, and armor known to sirius.

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