Logical balance

[Govedo13]

=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.

Secondary turrets do terrific good work against bigger bombers and fighters - like challengers and templars, I guess if they receive more dmg buff and more energy usage of course they will be used much.
I played with Primaries/secondaries combo on Ku BS- they work.

Escorts are not a joke really- but the battleship must have at least 4 to 6 solaris/secondary turrets-with a good management in group fight- clear targeting, covering the guy who is targeted by enemies by Battleship defence turrets and concentrating the fire,keeping the enemy bombers closer to the battleship defence platforms escorts do awesome job.Bombers are screwed indeed if the battleship pilot is good with the defence turrets they die when they come in 1k range if they stay away the battleship shield regeneration and missed snacs do the deal, escort fighters slowly but secure eat the bombers.

I wonder if you actually ever had useful escorts. There are 2 types of those


2. gunboats

- GB missiles and pulses also drain energy from bombers

Gunboat with 2 missile turrets,subtatgeting,bot/bats feeding and shield-running near the battleship can kill several bombers in short time.

Capital ships have never been balanced. For example: Rheinland BS comes to Texas and ragedestroys 2 Dreadnaughts.

You have no idea about it. The RM BS is the biggest BS in game- if two equal good pilots fight each other- LN Dread vs RM BS.The dread will win 90% of the time. It can simply pulse/motar the RM ship from distance eviding enemy motars. In freelancer small= better.
When we speak about balance we must aways keep in mind that there are two important things when we speak about balance
1st We should assume that all players are equal good. Buff ship X because player X killed me because my skills are poor is irrelevant. As I said to the Lobster Lord in the other topic- I still don't believe you that 15 ships wasn't able to beat 3 bombers- it is 5 vs 1 ratio is is ridiculous.There is only one reason this to happen- this 15 pilots were with very poor skills- so you cannot judge from one situation as this the whole balance thing.
2nd It is not fair Single Battleship to be able to kill more then 3 bombers alone if all 4 players have the same skills. It is called sportsmanship. Always keep this in mind.
So if you lack of skills go to train in the game not in the forums.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)