New Fleeing Rules

[dodike]

Errm... I'm more concerned about the vast majority of gameplay where lone gunboats patrol (since quite frankly, the vast majority of people don't really have the time or resources to always have a proper combat group patrol)

Also, that would mean that the only thing effective against fighters is other fighters. It's not very fun for people vested in gunboats and other caps when only fighters are effective against fighters while fighters are effective against everything :/

*edit* well, any more than it already is, anyway.

I'm yet to see a fighter that is effective against gunboat or bigger one on one. Superior numbers will always have an advantage.
Buffing gunboats the way you propose will only shift more people towards gunboats (since a single fighter won't be able to kill the gunboat nor run away) and you are where you started, your lonely gunboat patrol being shot down by multiple opponents and loosing.