Quite honestly, I think Transports are fine the way they are this version. They are just strong enough without being too strong. I can honestly say this because of two things:
Athenian's BPA Percheron
Pipboy's Hogosha Raba
both of which I have seen take on Gunboats (mind, the one Athenian was taking on wasn't firing back yet, but he drained its shields easily enough) and basically won. In fact, the Raba took on a BD Gunboat on it's lonesome with only a fighter's help and didn't even use all of his shields batteries, while the Percheron drained the GB's shields just as fast as any Gunboat would before high-tailing it out of the fight.
The problem with most transports is people won't bother to get armor on them. What is 15 cargo space to survivability? Look at a Gull. With an Armor Upgrade Mk VIII (which is funny to see a Gull with >.>) it has 125,000 armor. This is just as much as a the Gallic Train, and more than a Large Train has base. Put that on a Large or Advanced Train and you can take (Surprise surprise) three SN shots on your 300,000 armor. Weird, 'huh? With bots and bats a lone bomber or Gunboat doesn't seem to be that big of a threat anymore.
Now, lets look at a tougher Transport. Liberty Super Transport: 425,000 armor. 462,500 armor on the Shetland Train. If that isn't better compensation for losing your guns, what is? Look at the Shire: 12 guns, 350,000 armor. Is there any problem here with shooting (I'm guessing at minimum) 6 guns in any given direction with the ability to withstand 3 SNs? Every house besides Liberty has something like this anyway, and if not, the Train actually isn't that bad with 5 guns to be shot in any given direction (At least Large Train). I don't know why people ever complain about Transports.
Heck, I don't expect to ever get into trouble in my Pirate Train that its 312,500 armor and 4 backwards-firing-turrets can't handle. Honestly, if a fighter or bomber tries to crack this cookie before I fly to a base I can land on, good luck....
Of course, this is only assuming you just spend 15 million credits and give up some piddly amount of credits per run for Universal Armor Mk VIII.....
But, rant aside, I'd think we'd see less "lolrates" and more "Power Traders".
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