Flak turrets, and other light turrets

[BaconSoda]

If gunboats were designed to kill bombers then they're not doing their designated jobs good enough. As far as I know they're relatively easy to defeat with bomber SNACs.

You've obviously seen some pretty horrible Gunboats vs some pretty awesome Bombers. I'm no slouch in a snubcraft, I won't lie, I'm pretty confident in my abilities in something smaller than a Gunboat. I will not fight a Gunboat in a Bomber unless I have another player with me (more players = more power).

Here's the scoop as to how this balance works:

Gunboats can turn just as, if not faster than Bombers.
Gunboats have faster (both refire and speed) weaponry than Bombers.
Gunboats have shields which recharge faster than the Supernova
Gunboats have armor which, when reinforced, can withstand more than one SNAC.

I really think Gunboats could use some loving, but really it can't happen unless they are prohibited from piracy (which I want), but that doesn't mean that they can't completely obliterate a bomber. A bomber has to be at least 1k from a Gunboat (as stated above) to hit it with a SNAC (most of the time, closer), mostly because if a Gunboat has half a brain, he is turning and strafing like he's flying a fighter. Bomber guns are just too slow to keep up a consistent enough dps against Gunboats.

The problem is that Gunboats have so little armor that they can't effectively take a Supernova hit unless armored well. The extreme (LH Gunship) requires a Cap VI armor before it can take more than one SN shot and live. This problem is mostly alleviated by the fact that Gunboat shields restore themselves before the SNAC can refire, though, and then there's also the fact that Bomber guns are slow as all hell.

As I said before, though, it's impossible to balance both the Transport and Gunboat class correctly until they aren't made to combat each other often. Or at least that's what I think. >.>

This is why the best thing for fighting Gunboats are Cruisers or 3+ Fighters. Bombers are just too big and slow to effectively combat them, however, like mostly everything else, more players equals more power, which means that a swarm of Bombers can probably end up killing a few Gunboats.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.