Corvette/Frigate

[BillG8s]

Would be really nice with a class of ships between the Gunboats and Cruisers, as the gap right now is immense. Not even the largest gunboat with a maxed armor has any real chance against the smalles cruiser with bad armor upg. Maby with massive luck one can win, but nevertheless i think a ship line in between would be good.

(kinda GB BC)


Agility between an Rheinland GB and a Corvo Cruiser.



Armor - 180000
Turrets - 8 transport class 7 turrets and 4 cruiser turrets
Nanos/Batteries - 450/450
Additional - CM/Thruster
Power plant - 800000
Power regen - 85000/s
Shield - Class 8 Freighter (Gunboat)


Or slightly heavier version (if one should do a new class, every ship would of course differ, here are just 2 examples)


Armor - 200000
Turrets - 6 transport class 7 turrets and 6 cruiser turrets
Nanos/Batteries - 500/500
Additional - CM/Thruster
Power plant - 900000
Power regen - 95000/s
Shield - Class 8 Freighter (Gunboats)


With a power plant of less than a million prevents it from firing Heavy Cruiser Weaponry (light mortar, missiles). And with the majority of the other guns beeing Transport ones has to do with the nesecarity of not having them gunboat ones, as it would result in massive GB missile use. So the sollution instead of having like 4 gunboat ones is to have more transport turrets.

As for rules and such it should go under light Cruiser, no piracy. Mostly War vessle, or anti pirate GB vessle.


I can truly see a ship like this kick a gunboats ass while still beeing in grave danger of good GB captains, And i can see it loose strongly even against the smaller cruisers, unless it has a really good commander and huge ammounts of luck. (right between the classes so to speak)



Ideas? Thoughts? Feedback?

---

Simply the best red ship ever

[reavengitair]

Well, it looks good, however...

Look at Cruiser - Battlecruiser - Battleship. Battlecruisers (except the geb, which is barely a battlecruiser) have 12 turrets - the maximum equipable on any cruiser. Then, the lowest level battleships (the osiris, liberty dread, etc) have that same amount.

So shouldn't the corvette/frigate have 8 turrets in total - 6 gunboat, 4 cruiser, something like that?

[BillG8s]

Yea, maby it would suit better with lower ammount of transport turrets. But you have to have in mind thats its size and GB shield with 4 or 6 cruiser turrets makes it virtually (unless with massive luck) impossible to compete even with small cruisers

(mm, maby 4/4 in turrets then)

---

Simply the best red ship ever

[reavengitair]

Then again, keep in mind that Battlecruisers can't take on battleships either, but pretty much eat normal cruisers.

I would suggest... CRUISER shield, 2 gb, 4 transport turrets, 2 cruiser turrets... More like a defensive thing - 2 gb turrets allows missiles without spamming too.

[BillG8s]

Yea it might suit, but 2 GB missiles with an 900000 energy plant will result in spam im afraid.

Just a vessle in between the gap, that has a 75% chance of winning against an normal GB captain and a 25% chance of winning against an Normal Cruiser Captain.

(ofc, Rheinland should be rheinlandish. Slightly more armor more transport turrets and slower and bigger. While Kusarian ofc should be kusarish, smaller faster a bit fewer turrets and low hull) hmm might be heck alot work for balance team thou, might be best to start with one for some faction somewhere.

---

Simply the best red ship ever

[BillG8s]

the Ideal GB kinda BC would be with 50% more armor and about 75% more energy
than a large GB and with 6 GB turrets and 2 Cruiser ones, while still having GB shield.

But with so much in energy it could use cruiser heavy weaponry so better lower to under a mill.
And with so many gunboat turrets it would spam missiles, so one has to exchange the 6 GB turrets for
an equally effective ammount of transport 7 turrets. Wich would be like 8 or 9.

---

Simply the best red ship ever

[reavengitair]

But seriously, the missile spam wouldn't be that bad.

For instance: An order gunboat can pretty much equip 2 missiles and spam them... well, not quite. But most heavy gunboats can.

[Benjamin]

So shouldn't the corvette/frigate have 8 turrets in total - 6 gunboat, 4 cruiser, something like that?

who taught you maths

---

Join Cryer Pharmaceuticals

[Tenacity]

I would give frigates 6 to 8 gunboat turrets and 2 cruiser turrets, to match how battlecruisers have numerous cruiser turrets and 2 battleship turrets. Frigates are a half breed / hybrid shipclass, just like battlecruisers are.

---

[reavengitair]

who taught you maths

Shuddup, that was 4:30 pm, I get tired around then.