Transport Powerplants

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to be honest...in 4.84 i never payed any pirates in my transport...when they tried to pirate me my choice was always to fight...it wasnt important if they were if fighters or bombers...i had 6 endless firing turrets and rather powerful shield...in any case i could wear them down...and from GB i could run with relative ease...

on a side note i flew medium transport which gives you best chances against pirates...


Now, in 4.85 i fly IMG transport...devs put it into fight capable transports...sure it has 7 turrets, but it is rather large and very slow...turrets seem same if not better then in 4.84...but now when i am stopped by pirate i pay gladly...despite 7 turrets i cant use them effectively enough....

and that is fine...its a transport with more then 4k cargo...

so...conclusion is...large transports can have some defense mainly good against NPCs...but smaller faster transports like my all time favorite GMG miner is very tough nut to crack for a lone pirate...

this is how balance was made...not entirely guided by logic, but to support diversity...otherwise we would have container transports and liners all over the place...

as for transport turrets only thing i would like to see (and i did propose that long time ago in dev forum) is transport missile turret with about 2k damage, medium power consumption (about 15k) and it should use ammo...

other then that weapons are fine...you have slow heavy hitter and fast fighter repellents...razor or pulse like thingies for transports are a bit too much at this point...