Keepers

[Jinx]

scorps:

when 4.85 was released, we kindly asked all the factions who had access to the scorpion never to use more than like 2 nomad turrets on it.

since the GB is entirely restricted, it is upon the faction leadership to ensure ( no exceptions ) that such an agreement is upheld. if that doesn t work - rebalancing must be done. lately - we have seen more and more 8 nomad turret scorpions - that makes one doubt such agreements.

- if players adhere to the agreement, the scorpion is a fair enemy
- if players do not adhere to the agreement, it is vastly overpowered and easily a 1:3

voidrunner:

there were serious concerns about it having 15.5k power + torpslot and such a rediculous agility ( so agile that its almost hard to fly again ) - but those concerns were "overruled" by those in favour of this ships power - and the current version was included.

- if the player doesn t want to get hit - he won t get hit. hard to balance something like that.

assassin:

yes, as a matter of fact, it is comparable to a sabre in terms of usefulness. it is not too hard to hit - it is not too agile - and it hits like a truck ( but it is mostly a fair fight, cause it can be hit ) - and yes, the hitbox has been fixed.

- basicly a good 1:1 ... balanced vs. most public ships and doesn t need to be ganked.

nammu:

5 turrets + forward gun. - it is balanced to be equal to ~9-10 turrets on a "public" GB ( in terms of dps ) - that is also to make up for the rather large size. but we must also not forget that it is fairly agile - and that there are bigger gunboats around with a lot less pvp power ( like the conference, claymore etc. )

- comparable to the most powerful public gunboats, but still a fair fight - usually a 1:1 can do, but also a 1 vs. destroyer ( tests show that almost every public gunboat gets owned in a 1:1 - so its justified to use a destroyer against it )

nomad cruiser:

mostly below average/average. cruisers gain effectiveness by their weaponmix - keepers don t have the freedom of weapons on capital warships - so they suffer from it.

- as said before - mostly average

marduk:

easy to hit but its also dishing out the utmost dps. while in theory the dps is not a greatly higher - the lower refire / higher damage / projectile results in a lot of damage - and it can usually fight a 1:2 fight against almost all but the heaviest battleships.

we must not forget that its most common enemies are the osiris ( light ) and the mako ( light )

- its usually justified to fight it 1:2 at least - or "gank" it with bombers ( like its a good idea to gank every enemy battleship with bombers ) - 3-4 bombers should suffice

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