Are ships too tough?

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I agree that upping weapon speeds would be good for the game, but thats not what this thread is about. It's about the insane toughness of all ships, and like I said, if we for some reason need them to be this tough, why not make the hull weaker, but up the shield and shield batteries. They can be as tough as we need and still make sense.

[font=Comic Sans Ms]Fighter hulls are actually quite weak. If you shoot a motionless Sabre with any VHF, it's hull (and shield) deplete extremely quickly. Fights take so long because the overwhelming majority of projectiles miss, which has led to buff fighter weapon stats to compensate, which then allows said fighters to utterly rape larger targets as they miss less.

I can see the arguments saying "Well a fighter shouldn't be able to survive a nuclear explosion!" and counter that by saying, getting insta killed by a flukey mine just isn't fun.

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