BS without thrusters

[Jamez]

None of the capital ships should have thrusters in my opinion. Have you ever seen an NPC capship hit the burners?

Remember back in SP, fighting those Rheinland Gunboats. Remember how fast they were? That's all you have to do here.

Gunboats should impulse at 120. Cruisers - 90. Battlecruisers - 90, Battleships, 80.

A battleship is the heaviest, and heaviest-hitting, it should be the slowest and therefore easiest to hit. Cruisers are lighter, and therefore faster, but remember there would be no thruster. Battlecruisers have more armor and firepower than a cruiser, and shouldn't be faster than a cruiser. Gunboats would need their fast impulse speed to keep up with the lil' fighters. Fighters can still gain on gunboats in this case at 60m/s, but the gunboat turret range would simply be boosted to around 1100m to fix that.

Transports shouldn't have thrusters either, in my opinion. Don't confuse that with freighters, which should have thrusters.

EDIT: Also, the strafe speeds could be played with to help balance this idea.

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Andrew Skye
Starflier thrill-seeker

Evangeline Knight
Seasoned fighter pilot

Shinji Takeda
Renzu Corp ex-COO