Capital ships

[Syrus]

What I'd love to see is SNAC being removed and Novas finally doing some damage. I heard .86 fixes the shield problem? Would be nice.

Well, I'd say yes to Caps having no shields. At least Battleships and maybe even Cruisers.

Make Caps far (!) less agile. It'd be great if the handling of those big ships was like this, only maybe less agile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R40-ghf3Ws - but probably not going to happen. The problem with caps being bumped around has to be fixed though.

Their cruise should take really long to load and their drain should take long until it's energy is up again. So they won't cruise up to the enemies. I'd even go so far and remove cruise from BS, but might be a bit drastic (would diminish the amount of indy caps though. Hehe...). Of course they will need a hull and defense buff.

The main guns should have very long firingrange (3-5k) but less accurate...
So fighting with BS would be more like WW2 shipcombat.
Cruisers and Destroyers would be long range artillery with mortars while being in range of the heavy artillery (not mortars, but normal less-accurate guns) of the BS. Maybe the Mortars should be removed from BS then, replaced by the changes.

But well, that's just how I'd love to see cap battles. Epic, huge and slow ships firing at long range at each others, while bomber try to score hits with torpedos in close range, and being shot down by close-range weapons every now and then.

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