Thoughts on battleships

[Unit-sk855]

Mount the shield externally so it can be destroyed upon dropping. How many sci fi universes has the phrase "Take out its shield generator!" spoken?

I do agree that regeneration rate is overpowered, and playing with numbers on it would fix the problem as well.

a ship with 4 tizonas, tizona turret, 2 advanced dibilitators does 21,644 shield damage per second. That fighter has a power capacity of 8000.

all of the guns firing uses 3,224 energy per second, allowing only 2.48 seconds of firing, allowing 53,677 shield damage before a recharge.

if this is shooting a gunboat, the gunboat shield is allowed 140,000 capacity. and would go down to 86,323. It however regenerates while being shot back to 92,027.

Now the fighter is out of energy, and regenerates it back at a rate of 800. it would take 10 seconds to get back to full power for another pass at the ship. in that time the ship regenerates 23,000 shield energy putting it back at 115,027 capacity.

Only 24,973 damage was done to the gunboat. 1/6 of it shield. So it would take 6 clockwork passes at the gunboat not missing a single shot to bring its shield down not including batteries. over a full minute of gunboat vs fighter combat just for its shields, using a full shield buster loadout.

Just trying to survive a gunboat shooting at you for one minute is a challenge enough, trying to stay on it every 10 seconds for a full 2.48 seconds of firing to get the results of effecting it is, while not impossible, way to hard to bother with.

I cannot agree more with the statement that if you are skilled enough to dodge for 15 minutes and slowly wear down a shield, that you deserve to kill it. If a cap ship pilot cannot manage to kill one fighter in that time frame, they deserve to die. A lone fighter should be able to kill the ship above it in a one vs one fight of imbalanced skill. Equal skill should be the determining factor, not the ability to float away and rely on one piece of equipment to make a fighters attempt moot.

Just my opinions, i dont expect them to be taken as more:)

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*Wilson shows off his ham sandwich* - Armory.003
*mark placed on Unit-sk855's forehead* - Head hitting the desk as of reading the above