' Wrote:Big ships are still unbalanced. They should be more powerful, but incredibly expensive.
A battleship should cost around 1500mill. Be powerful enough to wipe like 3 cruisers, and a whole wing of fighters. Like EVE big ships...
What is the point of having a BS if a single bomber, Or two-three fighters, can take you down?
Battleships should be the kings of the battlefield. Another battleship, ot 2+ capships of smaller size, or 6 fighters with bombers should be able to take it... but no less than that.
A bomber should have trouble with a cruiser... As of now, a fighter can take down a cruiser alone.
Even if sea ships are different from spaceships it could be iteresting to keep the same price ratio we observe in real world. Just to add up a suggestion I give you some figures
The cost of production of a F-15 fighter (equivalent to our average VHF) was $50 millions
The cost of production of USS Nimitz (Nuclear Carrier) was (according to WikiP) 4.5 billions. Thus Nimitz price is circa 110 times the price of the fighter.
Since the price of the average VHF (with standard equipement) here is 4mil, if we keep the same ratio, the fair price for a CapS equivalent to Nimitz (and with a comparable resistence to torpedo attacks) would be 440mil... but how many fighter-bombers are needed to sunk the Nimitz?
In my opinion CapSs are overpriced for what they are now: they cost like 40 to 50 fighters and just one figter is able to take them down... just now, given the price, the ratio should be 1 to 3, at least... not 1 to 1.
Given actual prices the only reason to fly one of these beasts is to avoid to be bored by NPCs.
But there is something really underpriced: the armor reinforcemens. Why the **** reinforcing the armor of CapS should cost exactly the same as reinforcing the armor of light fighters? We should have different armor upgrade for each class of ships (or at least different from fighters to CapS). And the armor reinforcement for CapSs should cost 110 times... 150mil... at least.
And it might be the case that also the difference in price between fighters shields and CapSs shields is still to small, even if on this point I'm less confident.
My 2 cents.
Lump Lorry on behalf of the Lorry Family
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(Former chars on Disco 4.82)-- The old Lorry Family --
Lump Lorry freelancer trader. chief of the Lorrys | Manta Lorry freelancer pilot | [HF] Cesare Lorry fighter pilot, HF member | sso|Ace Wolverine Lorry bounty hunter | [RM] M(anfred) Von Lorryhofen Rheinland Military pilot | [AEGIS] GB 303 Ticonderoga AEGIS artificial intelligence gunboat | (secret
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