Logical balance

[Soul Reaper]

Right, as Spazzy said before

Heavy Battleships aren't meant (inRP mostly) to destroy the little snub craft, their purpose is to kill the capital ship on the other side.

(Or Carriers, their REAL purpose is to stay out of the battle and send in fighters, which is hard to do with FL currently, though it CAN be RP'd pretty easily if wanted)

And/or stations maybe, too bad stations don't explode in FL, but, of course there must be -some- kind of anti-snub weaponry on a big bad battleship, which, the solaris and razors seem good enough to me, it should only make bombers on the edge and not be able to fire as comfortably (As Jinx said before), not slaughter anything that gets close, or else we could kiss snub craft goodbye. Battleship Anti-snub is good as it is

But, let's face it, 'balance' also includes the players using the ships.


-I've seen a fighter take down a gunboat by itself, I've seen it happen some few times too, (shifts eyes to Joe).
-I've also seen one gunboat slaughter 3 fighters and a bomber.

But, you can have other examples too, not just gunboats.

-An idiot with a siege cruiser cant kill a carrier.
-A pretty decent siege cruiser pilot can kill a carrier without even getting damaged.

Or, for the topic in hand.

-I've seen an osiris just destroy the living s*** out of BHG bombers with a razor and it's guns, (but, it's easy for an osiris to do that, because of it's thin frame, bombers have to get a bit closer to actually land a shot)
-I've also seen 2 pro bombers taking out a battleship, and 2 cruisers in a row.

So yeah, you also have to count the players in while balancing.


=As For Flaks=

They suck, no range whatsoever, they cant even reach the other side of your battleship most of the time, and you have to guess where the snub craft is headed to actually hit, I myself have killed some bombers with the flaks, though, I changed the flaks to missiles, much better, flaks are just a waste. Need to be buffed or something I dunno.

=As For Secondaries=

Compared to primaries, secondaries are faster, go further, and have a better refire rate. But not as much as damage, so it's easier to hit snub craft. Some use the primaries and secondaries in unison, as it does create some kind of basic chainfire, against gunboats/cruisers this works pretty well. It DOES work better for fighters/bombers, though still hard to hit.

=Escorts=

Are a joke, and a lie.
The only escorts that can actually make a bomber stop hitting it's target would be players with high aiming/accuracy to damage the bomber while it evades and charges itself for another SNAC shot.

Or..gunboats, but for the most part, Escorts are a lie. The only real escorting would be scouting for a trader, as in, going forward in the route and making the trader turn back if anything red appears.

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