Battleships-POWER UP!

[tansytansey]

I am attempting to point out to something different but yet you choose to ignore it.

Would you be refering to something like this?

Some more variety would be great. Preferably variety that would reflect actual LOGIC more then your ingame wishes for balance so that your bomber / VHF squads can challenge capital ships with that much ease.

That has already been answered numerous times before, yet you have ignored the responses? Okay, I'll write it one more time for you.

Buffing caps will not bring variety. It will make it so that the only thing that can kill a capital ship viably is another capital ship. Since you'd need 5 or so bombers for every Battleship, why bother flying bombers? Just buy your own Battleship, it's not like they're hard to get.

So where's your so-called variety when everyone is flying Battleships?

As for Logic? It is logical for Bombers to be long range snipers and to stay out of a capital ships defenses. If you were designing a torpedo would you risk the lives of your pilots by making the torpedo range shorter than a cap ships defenses?

No, it's not. So it is logical for SNACs to have a longer range. Unfortunately for you, that logic doesn't tip in your favour, so you dub it as illogical.

We could increase Solaris range, but honestly would it help at all? A bomber at 3k range is not going to be moving in one direction for more than a second, and with 2400 projectile speed the Solaris is not going to hit anything that far away.

And Solaris are not offensive weapons, they're defensive weapons, they're designed to keep things from getting close to your ship. Your escorts should be taking on the bombers.

2 gunboats with some skill can take out capital ship of any class. Same goes for 2 bombers and hell, even sometimes to 2-3 VHFs. Pretty fair aint it.

It takes 3 Gunboats to kill a Battleship in any reasonable amount of time. It took myself, Ench and Tycho half an hour or possibly longer to kill a Dreadnaught with it's two fighter escorts, using 2 Rogue GB and 1 Tridente. We're all excellent Gunboat pilots.

It also takes 3 Bombers to kill a Battleship in a reasonable amount of time, 2 can do it but they need practically flawless SNAC aim, even one miss will set them back minutes work.

It takes 4-5 Fighters to kill a battleship, I know this from experience as we used to do it frequently in Omicron Gamma with the Red Barons. Killing Legates with Sabres and Odins is not easy when you've only 3 ships.

So that's 3-5 players per 1 player in a Battleship. And you want to make them stronger? So that it requires 5 or more bombers to kill one? No. Not without restrictions on who can fly them, Battleships are far too easy to obtain.

If you ever believe that is balance, then you are delusional. The dev team has even said it themselves, no one player will ever be able to fly a ship that makes them more valuable than scores of other players.

And that's the end of my 3 am rant.

Thank you, and Goodnight.

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