Cruiser Battle Razors

[Aeqvinox]

Cruiser Battle Razors need more love.


They received a buff to their projectile speed for a reason - someone realized they are an AA weapon, but... currently using razors is equivalent to flying "i'm scared of rape" type of cruiser, and having no anticap weaponry at all, in fear of one thing only - nova bombers.


There is simply no room for them with the current hardpoint splitting, and mounting just one where possible - is a big disadvantage to the weapon itself. We can safely call it a nerf, because you can only fight off targets that are the best at avoiding them - fighters. You need -two- to fight off bombers and gunboats. Two to kill a bomber with a lucky snipe, two to tap into your power reserves when fighting a gunboat [except on heavy cruisers].

I know that hardpoint splitting is about choices, but we could make it about compromises, and it would still be almost impossible to make a pwn-it-all loadout with just 12 hardpoints maximum.


Few possible solutions, not at all saying that the first is totally awesome and stuff:


1. Class 6 razors, but scaled down to ~2/3'rds of damage.
This way a cruiser captain faces a tough choice - stick with his 6-8 solaris, or sacrifice those to mount 2-3 razors instead, and work on his aim and timing.

Similarly to gunboat razor loadouts, where 2 are vs fighters, 3 are vs light bombers, 4 are vs heavy bombers, for cruisers:

1 razor vs light targets, 25k damage - kills LF's, HF's and light, agile VHF's up to Eagle, Touketsu.
2 razor vs medium targets, 50k damage - kills VHF's, light bombers up to Falcata.
3 razor vs heavy targets, 75k damage - kills SHF's and the rest of the heavy bombers.

2. Class 6 razors, but power usage increased by 20k-70k energy per shot.
A fair compromise - lowering the efficiency from 0.158 to 0.146-0.12 so they don't take the place of LM (0.15 d/e) as the "main cannon" in fights vs gunboats and cruisers.

This will ensure that LM or two will still have it's rightful place on every cruiser, filling the heavy slots along with cerbs/missiles, but instead primaries/solaris number will suffer, and we will have PC-NPC cruisers flying around, with every weapon possible mounted <3

3. More heavy slots for cruisers *shrugs*.
5-6 for heavies, 3-4 for mediums, 2-3 for lights. But this, of course won't work all that well.

Disagree. Discuss. Decide.

PS. I kindly ask people that have little to no experience in flying cruiser class vessels to refrain from voicing their strongly negative opinions on the matter, as you are not qualified to make an unbiased balance assessment. Thank you.