Gaia's Angel
Damage: 160/320
Speed: 750
Range: 600
Energy: 90
Refire: 5.88
dps: 941:1882
eps: 529
Conclusion: 25% faster firing, 12.4% less damage, 9% less energy usage. Has advantages and disadvantages. Probably better due to its higher speed and Deb syncing
Quote:- molly guns
Trefoil:
Damage: 290/580
Speed: 600
Range: 550
Energy: 145
Refire: 4.00
dps: 1160/2320
eps: 580
Conclusion: 7.5% more damage, 8.5% less range. Rougly balanced, however, unlike the sunrail, it does have some advantages over the Kraken, namely that it does higher damage.
Quote:- corsair guns
Salamanca:
Damage: 265/530
Speed: 600
Range: 600
Energy: 113
refire: 4.00
dps: 1060/2120
eps: 452
Conclusion: 2% less damage. 23% less energy usage!? Now with this sort of imbalance, I'm going to quote you on the only other point of yours I haven't taken a look at yet:
Quote:- when you consider a gun - you also need to consider the ships that are most likely to use them
Corsairs: heavy, armoured ships lacking in agility. Bretonians: Heavy, armoured ships lacking in agility which look like fish. Note the lack of difference between the descriptions and the huge difference between the guns.
Quote:Kusari Lawfuls:
To keep this fair, I'm only going to use the stats of the 4.00 refire gun, since the refire rates factor in how the guns damage is balanced. I was unable to do this with the gaians since they only have one gun.
Disinfector:
Damage: 260/520
Speed: 600
Range: 550
Energy: 105
refire: 4.00
dps: 1040/2080
eps: 420.
Conclusion: 4% less damage, 8% less range, 28% less energy usage!? This is markedly better than the sunrail.
Quote:- gallic guns ( but only up to a limit, cause gallia is supposed to be unbalanced )
Not going to go into these due to the above phrase. If they're supposed to be unbalanced, then what's the point in trying to have a gun's stats balanced to keep it in line with them?
Right. Now that I've finished giving you stats and comparisons, let's move on to your points on how things are balanced, since you're obviously a member of the balance team:
Quote:don t compare those. - why?
- bretonia and ships with krakens hardly fight each other
One word: Lolcasts. The Bretonia-outcast non-aggression dealings aren't exactly common knowledge and every now and then we get outcast sabres with krakens (and in one rather funny case, salamancas) bombing around shooting people, and since Bretonia and the Outcasts are hostile on one anothers repsheets, that's within RP.
Quote:- when you consider a gun - you also need to consider the ships that are most likely to use them
Templar: Slow, unwieldy, big powercore.
Sabre: Fast, agile, smaller powercore.
(8% difference in powercore size)
The Sabre turns quickly and can keep a target in its sights, so it obviously needs the higher weapons speed to help it do so. Its powercore is 8% smaller and regenerates 9% slower so it obviously needs the 13% less energy requirement per shot so it can keep shooting for longer than the heavier Templar. Also, everyone knows that the sabre is horribly underpowered, so it needs the 3% extra damage to try to compensate for that. /sarcasm
Quote:- the kraken 2 probably is one of the best public guns in the entire mod - compard to the kraken... many guns fall short.
By public, I assume you mean "not nomad or phantom". Also, aren't the balance team supposed to make sure that weapons don't become this overpowered? If many guns are completely outstatted by the Kraken doesn't this mean that the kraken should lose some stats?
