Capital ships

[Vladimir]

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.

Ye, i know 4.86 is going to have different slots for battleships, with a few heavy slots for heavy things like mortars, some slots for four times buffed primaries and a lot of slots for four times nerfed solarises. Meaning, even less diversity, everyone will be flying pretty much the same ships.

So, all the ships will become the same. And no additional tactics will arise, while old ones with specializing ships will go. Great.

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.

LM+thruster*2=dead battleship.

You see, cruisers ARE a long-range weapon platfroms. You probably never raided gamma with vidars. Yes, mortars from battleships can hit ~as far as LMs from cruisers. The difference is, you hit, they don't.

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