10-11-2013, 01:56 AM
I know this has been discussed before, but I would really like to bring up a way of doing this.
A lot of us want to see actual "gunships", which would be one-man ships, similar to gunboats except without turret steering, making them kind of like fighters.
The problem with this is "if we call those gunships, and these gunboats, people might get confused".
I have a solution: Rename the current gunboats to frigates. Their roles are very similar to frigates anyway, piloted by multiple persons, but still smaller and faster than most ships with their role generally being defensive or to intercept.
Then you can introduce the new class of ships called Gunships. These would be the size and speed of SHF's, and would have transport turrets that only fire forwards (not gunboat turrets, because pulse+razor combos on a ship this small and fast would be vastly overpowered). They would have less firepower than the compared SHF's which have more guns and bomber torpedo slots, but they would have the increased accuracy of the transport turrets. I would suggest them having a varying amount between 4 and 6 transport turrets on the front of the gunships, which fire only forwards, like guns.
A lot of us want to see actual "gunships", which would be one-man ships, similar to gunboats except without turret steering, making them kind of like fighters.
The problem with this is "if we call those gunships, and these gunboats, people might get confused".
I have a solution: Rename the current gunboats to frigates. Their roles are very similar to frigates anyway, piloted by multiple persons, but still smaller and faster than most ships with their role generally being defensive or to intercept.
Then you can introduce the new class of ships called Gunships. These would be the size and speed of SHF's, and would have transport turrets that only fire forwards (not gunboat turrets, because pulse+razor combos on a ship this small and fast would be vastly overpowered). They would have less firepower than the compared SHF's which have more guns and bomber torpedo slots, but they would have the increased accuracy of the transport turrets. I would suggest them having a varying amount between 4 and 6 transport turrets on the front of the gunships, which fire only forwards, like guns.