Capital ships

[AeternusDoleo]

A large portion of your comment stems from the focused-specialization of battleships. One of the changes pending in 4.86 is that battleship turrets will change - to heavy, standard and light classes. The heavy turrets can handle heavy weapons like mortars and razors, the standard ones primaries and secondaries and the like (including Cerbs), and the light turrets can handle point defenses such as Solaris. No battleship will be able to fully focus on one of these anymore, thus forcing all battleships into a more balanced, multipurpose role. I expect to see a lot of Cerberus-heavy battleships as a result.

Cruisers are fine as is. I'd love to see their primary weapons outrange the battleships though, they are designed as a long range platform. That'd give them a good reason to exist... right now only their missiles outrange battleships. And cruiser missiles have the same problem as novas in terms of scratching shields.

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