Harvester Cruiser..

[Jinx]

"Considering the likes of Being ganged by Bounty hunter battleships..."

the above stirs rather the opposite of symphaty - it is no argument for a better ship at all - it doesn t work for any faction, no matter how exclusive they are.

other than that rather biased argument that suggests how unfairly treated the faction is - the harvester cruiser is fine the way it is.

it is small, it is fairly agile, it has 11 turrets and generous firing arcs. - it is VERY powerful. i have tested it for a long time... compare it to :

- BHG destroyer ( 8 guns )
- order cruiser ( 8 guns )
- kusari destroyer ( 9 guns ... i think )
- bretonian destroyer ( a brick in the sky )
- liberty cruiser ( a good anti-cap ship... but really - in order to use the front gun, you need an enemy that is mostly stationary )
- corsair cruiser ( another brick )
- outcast destroyer ( well... 12 guns, flat and larger than it might look ... similar to the harvester cruiser )

what you do NOT do is....

- compare it to battlecruisers, casue they are another shipclass
- compare it to battleships for the same reasons


to make it clear again

no one gets better gear "cause they face greater odds" - if you re a harvester you WANT to fight many enemies, otherwise you d not be a harvester ( same appplies to all other factions that either consider everyone an enemy or have many enemies by lore )

so - lets compare the harvester cruiser with the rheinland cruiser..

harvester:
- 265.000 hitpoints
- 0.4 turn rate ( the more the better ) at 0.46 till max rotation rate
- 1.800.000 energy ( medium cruiser plant )
- 11 turrets

rheinland cruiser:
- 390.000 hitpoints
- 0.33 turn rate at 0.46 till max rotation ( thats ~18% slower than the harvester cruiser )
- 2.250.000 energy ( large cruiser plant )
- 11 turrets

the rheinland cruiser turns considerably slower - and is a larger target

and lets just peak at the nasty BHGs

BHG destroyer:
- 260.000 hitpoints
- 0.4 turn rate ( vertically ) - 0.46 till max rotation
- 1.400.000 energy ( small powerplant )
- 8 turrets

the harvester doesn t look too weak anymore - of course, the BHG destroyer is smaller, but not really more agile... at the cost of 3 turrets, 5000 armour, 400.000 energy.

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