Logical balance

[Jinx]

while i wholeheartedly support ... umm.. the support you give there agmen ( rare thing that there is support for the capital ships - well not soo rare anymore but still )

i do wonder if there isn t an alternative way to increasing the duration of a battle. ( armour / hitpoints )

the fact that warships are irrelevant in fleet battles and go down first ( still ) is well known. - the fact that they are hopelessly underpowered for what they "stand for" is also well known ( although some like it that way - others don t )




alternatives to simply increasing the duration of the battle might be:

- multiple shield bubbles of weaker but faster regenerating shields ... resulting in the need for single vector attack angles, instead of firing from wherever you stand at a capship. - drain one shield ... and you should better stick to that side - or you end up draining the other shields while the first one regenerates

- add a HELL lot of armour to capital ships - but give them specific vulnerable spots ( if that could just be coded.... *sigh* ) - resulting in either trying to shoot down - e.g. 50.000.000 hitpoints ( *yawn* ) or actually skilling up to AIM at smaller spots and subtargets.

that would FORCE a bomber to either get dangerously close ( battleship point defenses kicking in ) - or stay at its safe distance of around 2.5-3k and snipe for an eternity - however if you bring lots of friends sniping with you - even 50 million hitpoints are but a push-over.

- make explosives work vs. capital ships ( properly ) - and get rid of the supernova - and balance the nova and maybe an ammoless shieldbuster for bombers - that way - a bomber needs to have its shots actually hit. ( make them slow, but give them an almost perfect tracking - the capship cannot shoot them down ( no CD ) but might spin them away ( flak ) or have its escorts shoot them down )




the problem i have with increasing the armor or in general increasing the time is: its good when there are escorts no doubt - but might turn rather dull when waiting for the inevitable just takes longer now.


on that note - funny thing really.... the supernova wasn t changed when we increased the capital ships hitpoints by around 2.5 times - yet it hasn t changed much about the capships vs. bomber problem.

bombers are a necessity - but destroying a capship should require more skill than hitting a huge lump of metal in space - if it required hitting special subtargets - things would change dramaticly - and highly skilled bombers would still be able to take out a capship.

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