Battleship thrusters

[Prysin]

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OK, normal thruster on a BS is too OP. even if it just buffed its speed from 90m/s to 120m/s... Especially ships like Osiris and Dunkirk would be nearly unstoppable due to their small size and hefty firepower. Leaving big ships helpless like they are now, BUT what if this was changed?

Currently, if you are in a BS, with CAU 4 (950 000x3.0=2.85m armor), say its a Ranseur, and your attacked by 4 =CR= bombers (to make it real, who bring just 2 bombers to kill a BS when you can bring more?) at Tau 23 JH in Tau 37. YOU CANNOT CRUISE, and the bombers stay at a safe distance of ~2k, you can't kill them beacause they evade your fire.

With an impulse of 90M/S even those mere (is it 33k?) is faaaaar too long of a distance to run. YOUR DEAD.

Currently, anything staying outside the 2k deathzone of a BS is going to take it down IF it has guns capable of brining down the BS shield. THIS IS A FACT. Noone of you can ignore this fact, because its a FACT.

IF a battleship had thrusters, normal ones, even if it just slightly buffed its speed to 120m/s (which would most likely mean that the BS can make it to the FP). BUT conventional thrusters on lighter BS's or smaller like Dunkirk and Osiris would basically create a WMD without parallell.

Now, how could we give battleships a thruster, and not make it OP?? Yup, lets use "Cruise drain". A battleship "thruster" like the ones used on cruiser would require nearly impossible ammounts of fuel to be carried even for a short burn as these behemoths of a ship has just too much mass for a conventional thruster system, BUT if this system was a function added to the engines itself?!

THESE NUMBERS ARE ALL EXAMPLES:
Battleship Afterburner: ship speed increases to 130m/s
Power drain: 600 000 u/s
Time to reach top velocity: 5 seconds (this will ensure an "even" drain on all ships)
Power regeneration stopped for: 1-2 second(s) after use
Cost: 200,000,000 Credits


The biggest and fattest power core in game is the 9,000,000u core used by Legate, Valor, Ranseur, Kusari BS, Rheinland BS and Liberty carrier (and others). This core has a regeneration rate of 300 000 u/s.
The smallest core is the 7,000,000u one used by Mako, Osiris, Zephyr and Togo. This core has a regeneration of 220 000 u/s.

The 9mill core is used on the HUGE ships, i mean huge. The current Ranseur (although being replaced) is still 1.4 times that of the Osiris which is its enemy. The Mako and Osiris faces the Marduk, the nomad BS, which is probably around twice if not 2,5 times the size of the mako and osiris.

With a smaller core, and a standard "burn time" of 5 seconds before you reach top velocity would leave the light battleships with around 4mill energy left, thats almost half its core emptied just to get a slight speed boost. While a bigger battleship would be left with 6mill energy. Which would leave it able to still fire off its heavy weaponry yet still suffering from its energy loss (dual mortar and your core is almost dry).

With such speed boost, only the big sluggish ones "win" well, they suffer less and remains a dreaded force on the battlefield. BUT the lighter battleships like osiris wouldnt be able to go "full solarizer" at all as the 4m left would dry out so fast that the ship would struggle to keep its efficiency in battles.


IF this could be implemented, it would be a welcome "fix" as well, NOW you can run away, while suffering energy loss, but still being able to shoot. Also, IF you EK and get CD'd you still gotta wait 1-2 seconds before you start regenerating power.... oops, better not use it for too long.

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