Right, so i talked with blodo about something completely unrelated, dunno how we even got onto the topic... but it left ME thinking.... The ship is cool and all that... its possibly the worst snub ever made, balance wise. as it needs 2-3 gunships to survive 2 VHF's ganking it, but its still a cool ship... just its a bit underpowered for its stats and size
Now, thinking about it, i believe we got onto the matter of the Fafnir when i mentioned its ridiculous price (almost 15m, its almost twice that of any other bomber).
Looking at its stats, even a genious can see that it IS the slowest bomber in the game... Wiki says Barghest has worse turn speed, but Barghest is smaller and has better acceleration.
The Fafnir is a peculiar ship, it's sheer potential WAS slightly nerfed during 4.85, when it used to have a tad bigger core (i believe it was 52 or 55k)... However, that is a thing of the past, and even the 52k core wouldnt save this flying brick... it simply lack defense and offense matching its size, prize and agility...
I think, in this case, that we should all agree that it SHOULD be a "super tanks".... able to tank and dish out massive damage for the lack of manouverability.... But the ability to use 2 nova's and a CD isnt anything SPECIAL...
My proposal would be to give it 3 class 10 fighter guns, 4 class 2 fighter turrets (2x 360, 2 backwards only) and a 60k core (AI Drone core)
This will make it OP against anything that dare to JOUST IT.... with the horrid turning, you cant keep up with any fighter, and you're only weapon is straight forward overwhelming firepower...
But... DUAL SNAC is OP you say? well, consider the facts, that most turret-steering gunboats can fly circles around this thing....
And given the maximum SNAC range of 1450m (against cruisers on max impulse w/thruster) you are pretty much dead-meat once you go close... SO although this thing would be a monster, it would be a kill-or-be-killed monster.... Taking with you two of these ships would possibly instakill an unsuspecting ill-prepared gunboat, but it would in no way endanger snubs or bombers even, seeing as both the Upholder, Havok (the two bombers LN can use at will) can fly in orbit around the slow Fafnir without much of a risk...
So, what does the rest of you think? Should we make this ship into a flying "straigh-line-killingmachine" ?