4.87 Ship balance reports (Ships / Weapons)

[Haste]

==============
Broken VHFs
==============
I'll just name those: Chimaera, Katana, Blossom, Black Dragon

Keep in mind that all four of those are set to be made Heavy Fighters, and their VHF counterpart replaced with newly modeled and significantly bigger VHFs.

The Rapier and the Nyx are very obviously broken. Both have no significant weaknesses and incredibly good overall profiles.

I would also suggest doing something about the Falchion and the Ravens Talon. As in, the Falchion right now is generally just better than the Ravens Talon. The Falchion is incredibly responsive compared to the Ravens Talon, while having a similar but quite possibly harder to hit (flatter) front profile.

Making those two a little less similar might be the best way to fix this. I would suggest making the Falchion less responsive but giving it a bit more maximum turn speed, as well as making it flimsier (read: less B/B and hull) than the bulkier-looking Ravens Talon. The logic for this would be that the Sabre fills the "heavy firepower, slow" niche for the Borderworlds tech cell, while the Falchion would fulfill the "fast but flimsier" role. Ravens Talon / Eagle would fulfill both roles for the Civilian cell.

Making in-depth comments about gun balance seems a little pointless right now. All I can say is that it seems to be largely experimental / unfinished.

---