Gunboat Balance

[mjolnir]

Nice.... CoRP

Just some of my thoughts on this one:

One gunboat should kill a VHF 99% of the time.

One gunboat should be able to kill a pair of VHF about half the time.
One gunboat should be able to kill one bomber about half the time.

To be able to kill a VHF 99% of the time you need fast-firing, fast speed weapons... that don't do so much damage (otherwise they are uber on other caps).

As it is now the fighter just flies circles around the GB and ignores it completely... leaving when he wants (no point in shooting on a GB if I can never take down his shields)..

To be able to kill capships GBs need slower firing, more damaging weapons.


Now just about all gunboat weapons try to do both..... So should we have two classes of weapons, or just stay in the one class world?

- problem is that with two weapons classes the GB will become a customizable swiss army knife.... everyone will simply fly GBs and change loadouts... or make a balanced loadout somewhere in the middle.
Not to mention two GBs operating together one anti-fighter and one anti-capshis.....uber combo :)

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