Reason for gunboat missile change?

[jakub963]

... since there's no ammo to the missiles, fighters really have no defense against mass missile use by light caps.

And what exactly was wrong? Gunboat role was exactly that, pinning down fighters. Also fireing a missile ment giving up half of your core every shot. Now its still half of the core but only for EMP blast which fighter/bomber can just laugh at, shieldrun for 5-10 seconds and them continue fighting.

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