Yet again about the ships

[CzeReptile]

Upon reading some recent stuff related to ships mainly and their purpose.

What crossed my mind numerous times is complete rework of the ships to reflect their purpose. Now ill be hijacking without quoting but basically

Fighter class - light fighters should be the most agile and best in Fighter on Fighter combat, while VHFs would pack most firepower but be slower, also more armored, Important note that their guns would have modifier to do very little damage to hull of anything bigger then bomber as in

Against gunboats lets say 30%, Cruisers 8%, Battleships 1%, just an idea, 100% against bombers and other fighters obviously
Note : I thought about using some sort of dumb style missiles for fighters as their supportive anti-cap weapon. Dumbs are fun and with just some damage can still be used. Should be expensive to prevent abuse.

Bombers - slow, cumbersome, MUCH more armored then they are now, with EMP / hull damaging visible torpedoes that can be shot down but upon hit cause DESTRUCTION, blast radius and enough damage to seriously hurt capital ship dumb enough to fly without escorts. Also maybe switch their guns for new turrets and let them use steering in view mode so they can just like bombers fire around themselves in defense against fighters.
Note - aside from these guns, torpedoes and alike would not really be useable against fighters, up close the torpedo should vaporize in like 300m radius given its huge damage and size of projectile. Someone also mentioned MINES - well give them better lifetime and let bombers lay them in supposed way of battleship and other capitals...could be fun!

Gunboats - hunters of smalls, missiles and guns, armor but yet little slower. Main job to hunt fighters and bombers, eventually shoot down missiles. Gun modifier against cruisers and battleships to prevent gank using just these. Would also be great with dumb rocket launchers to salvo, or be equipped with special anti-torpedo missile launcher.

Cruisers - the screening capitals. Long range guns, ammo based, missiles the same, able to evade fire yet still vulnerable to bomber swarms. Specific purpose of screening means also anti-smalls guns, better tracking missiles and maybe some thrust style engine that makes them go evasive a little bit better. Mainly anti gunboat, missile and cruiser ships. Support against enemy battleships at long distance.

Battleships - buffed, buffed and buffed. About twice as much hull, maximum of possible gun slots and use them to pwn. also SRP them. Primary role - shoot other battleships and cruiser. Slow, non bumpable, with fearsome firepower against anything that is silly enough to come close. Some anti-torpedo guns, VERY accurate and fast short range flaks to avoid silly close-fly-by by those little ones, ammo based primary guns that DO damage, explosive and whatnot shells.


Thats the general idea I got. Any suggestions and such welcome. I do understand that it is alot of work and probably everybody would hate it. But come on, a world where actually you need to put everythin together to make it workable force, isnt that the RP dream we all have? Instead of just WEEE VHF, WEE Battleships only, have combination of everything, with each pilot assigned a task to do in the battle. And to finally end senselss VHF spam > rest or PVP whore GBs > rest.

Sidenote four or even - I got eight battleships. Make this happen and ill donate them to the poor and needy.

Flame away

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