Gunboats & Gunships

[Ursus]

Its possible GB is only a mobile weapons platform now, and you need something else to actually fly around and do stuff.

Fighters may be good as escorts, since you can (theoretically) take out other fighters and bombers, and tie up a gunboat long enough for the target to escape. Can a 4.87 fighter kill a bomber before the bomber kills the transport? The issue in 4.86 was that bomber could destroy the transport before the fighter could kill it.

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[Murcielago]

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So 5 v 5 you're personally holding up over half their crew just as one person. That sounds perfectly fine! Now, weapons might need to be buffs so they're actually a credible threat, apparently, but that still strikes me as Working as Intended.

Well if u put it that way you are correct,
ah well I have to say here more times but:
I have to pay 15-20 times more for one GB..just economic...soo 15-20time more efective perhaps?
NO am not for that option either

In game GB is bigger ship whit more crew then fighter whit just one person..
Soo in game it should be that much efective especialy against fighters...

My opinion is therfore simple;
fighters should kill other fighters and bombers
bombers should kill capital ships and die agains fighters
GB should kill other GB, easy more then 4 fighters , same go against bombers

And no way that 1-2 fighters should kill GB.

The developers had problem becouse many complained that bombers was to good in 4.86 (personal opinion; they were just too fast..the devs...shoud just reduce there speed this would solve all problems whit them)...

Soo they made new super ship class now: fighters....they are tiny hard to hit..now they have better range and speed weapons ...
yes yes i know GB have solaris...pff whit smaller range than most fighter weapons....
well i saw that 4 fighters killed the cruiser!!! Whitout any snack or torpedo...
No way that should be possible...
For four ships total worth max 8mils killed 200mils worth cruiser????

Im realy crying now for old house GB weapons....
But I have dream that devs erase solaris turrets and made zappier turrets
whit refire rate 4 ...

Murcielago

[Ursus]

Maybe a buff to GB speed would be good, can control the engagement more instead of just sitting in one place waiting for snubs to decide if they want to try fighting before running away

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[nOmnomnOm]

The way I see it a GB should be able to hold up a max of 3 fighters. In the same sense it also depends on the load-out of each fighter too.
They should also be able to take out bombers relatively easily unless the bomber knows what he is doing. Generally 2 versus 1 gunboat is a good match setup.

You should also note that it takes 2 gunboats to kill a cruiser. Does that mean now that cruisers are useless? Not all. It just means that there is a certain number that when reached a ship class can overtake another. Same goes when you have 1-3 light fighters attacking a bomber or a VHF.

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