Quote:Ships aren't really designed to be compared together unless they're supposed to interact - a Liberty Cruiser won't be fighting Kusari nor will a Dragon Cruiser be fighting Liberty, so you can't exactly compare the ships that way. The same applies to Gallic ships and weaponry - they're designed to fight each other factions in their zone of influence, not unrelated factions elsewhere.
Then I'll compare it to the Kusari Destroyer.
Kusari Destroyer: far more agile than the Dragon Cruiser, but only has 10000 hull less
2 extra guns, because the forward on the Dragon Cruiser barely counts in a fight due to the likelyhood of the dragon forward gun hitting a Kusari Destroyer is.... quite low.
Smaller hitbox,
More veriaty of weaponary (gets primary turrets, the bd cruiser can only use basic/zoner, and its pretty oorp to use zoner anyway)
If im not wrong, the Kusari Destroyer has higher energy too. Not sure though.
' Wrote:Beam style weapons I could see working, you thinking about something similar refire to the SP Lib Cruisers? If I remember correctly they could refire before the projectile trail dissipated making it look like one constant beam, this would be great to do with forward guns, perhaps just the cruiser ones?
FYI: The cruiser forward gun in vanilla had a re-fire rate of 2.00.
I made the ship and its time to spit in my opinion. In no way the Blood Dragon Cruiser is meant to fight a Kusari destroyer. The Dragon Cruiser with forward gun is to attack Kusari battleships. If you want to test the balance, take 1 Kusari battleship and 2 Dragon cruiser. In my opinion 2 of these cruiser should be able to destroy a Kusari battleship.
To take on Kusari destroyer in fleet battles a Togo can stay ready to be called in as support to fight the destroyer, but not the Kusari battleship in the first place. Everything else depends on fighter escort and bombers.
In fact, dragon cap ships are more designed for player interactions within Dragon factions than being stand alone competitors.
Concerning the projectile effect. I have not the knowledge, but some others have. So it should be possible to change diameter and color of the Liberty cruiser forwrd gun projectile to fit the Dragon cruiser forward gun.
