Logical balance

[mjolnir]

however mjolnir - it does not address the issue that there are too many ships that require escorts and too little slots / players that do escorts.

around 70 ships needing escorts is nothing out of the ordinary. - yet - if all those 70 even only had 1 escort - it would fill up the server to 140.

cause the idea is that each of those ships MUST have escorts, cause we balanced them to REQUIRE them ( its like flying without turrets when you have no escorts )

i think thats the biggest problem.

unless you say .... "well if t here aren t enough, tough luck"
but the community continously blames transports that are blown up for "not having escorts" or battleships that die to a handful of bombers for "not having escorts" - numbers show.... that having escorts cannot work though, unless we "beam escorts around to where they are needed the at the moment".
of course - IF a ship has escorts its harder to be taken down.

Not having escorts is like not having turrets? Uhh :)

Transports don't need escorts 95% of the time, because their running distance is enough to get away from quite a few things before getting destroyed.
Also related issue would be that 1 escort can scout (= effectively evading any danger) for unlimited number of transport in a convoy.

Actually I think that the lack of transport escorts is caused by the above highlighted fact. Most of the time transports don't need escorts and those 5% of time where they are useful do not outweigh the effort/money spend on an escort.

Not even a lack of turrets (like on some big transports) changes this.

I must add my experience to your ideas there:

A) Me (in a barge) + 15 escorts (one GB the rest VHFs) vs 3 bombers. I die, all bombers live.

FIFTEEN ESCORTS!!!

Escorts are a lie

Barge was added as a joke/fun ship . Using it as an argument in anything about balance is not a very good idea.

B) I would much rather just hit the darned bomber with a GB rzor then go through all the trouble of draining its powerplant.. this is not practical.

Firing GB missiles which both drain powerplant, hurt hull and blast off components all that while being one of the easiest things to use is not practical?

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