Transport Turrets, Gunboat Turrets and... Liner Turrets

[Sprolf]

Liners used to use gunboat turrets, as I understand. That was perhaps overkill - or just a little strange, given the pulses and razors and their seeming slant toward war as opposed to defense.

The idea of placing good turrets on a liner, however, have been somewhere nearer to a goodly premise concerning these massive, battleship sized vessels that are supposed to be used to haul people. They're armoured beasts, designed to get their cargo from place to place safely.

I'd think that they, in realistic RP and common sense, could support better weapons than transport turrets quite easily.

Gunboat turrets, especially considering the razor/pulses, would be too much.

But a somewhat better transport turret might be a good idea.
It could be a liner turret that uses more energy than a normal transport powerplant has, so normal transports couldn't use them. Or maybe they'd just take up like 10x energy and normal transports could. They could definitely used some added firepower.

Maybe the turrets would cost 1.5 million.
Take up a hunk of power.
550 Hull, 275 Shield. 1400 Speed. 3.3 Refire.
Something along those lines.


Liners are battleship-sized ships, and in all reality, they could and should support better turrets.



As a disclaimer:
I have owned a slave liner. Once. I never entered any sort of combat with it.
I sold it after game mechanics made my RP impossible.
I don't currently own a liner. I have no agenda to push here, other than the agenda of general idea-throwing to refine viable solutions to potential problems.
I am simply posting what I've been thinking for some time.

(I am also aware of Liner "whoring" that might take place. Transports have been getting weaker and weaker, it seems. The fact of the matter here is that these large ships needs faster and better turrets, not just more armour - which has been getting taken away slowly and slowly, update by update.)

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