' Wrote:Then it will be used for fighting enemies, idea was that it should be good for running. But maybe some tuning of the powerplant capacity (not recharge), so that the forward slot can be used for razor/inferno when you need to "blast trough" enemies.
Yeah, I really don't want to see it being used for a lot of PvP by people who have no business even flying it.
But!
If it has 5 gunboat turrets, and worse armour and worse powercore than ALL other gunboats, and is 3 or 4 times the price of all other gunboats, I don't think there's a risk of that.
Going off the infocard/name/cargo size, I don't see it as a nippy transport vessel designed to run away from everyone, I see it as the personal plaything of rich timewasters.
I guess this is just a design call that could go either way, but at the moment, the stats, infocard, name and price are all in contradiction with each other and don't add up at all.
And really, who wants this ship to become a manoeuvreable little transport that no one will use because it has a tiny cargo and costs more money than you could ever realistically make using it? And who wants it to be impressive, beautiful, powerful and ostentatious, but admittedly too flimsy to stand up to anything of the equivalent grade that costs a fifth of the price?
I don't mind the yacht remaining really expensive, and in fact, if it does get a boost, the price would be a great 'balance' issue along with its other weaknesses, to stop it being used as a PvP ship.
Take a look at the junker salvage frigate: it has 5 (I think?) gunboat turrets, and huge capacity when compared to the yacht (3500 or somesuch). It's also expensive, and it has a transport shield. I don't see anyone saying that the salvage frigate is overpowered. It's only strength that I can see is in demanding cargo piracy. But with the yacht, its small cargo would invalidate that anyway. If other people are anything like me, the salvage frigate and yacht are 'fun' ships. I don't own any gunboats or capitals, and these over-gunned but under-supported transports would let me play around with big boy turrets and feel flashy (like you should with a yacht!), without being able to cause any real havoc or upset anyone.
Just, you know, reading about everyone writing the Zoner GB off as 'not combat-worthy', despite it being (as far as I know) pretty much a gunboat class ship across the board, but with only 4 turrets. But the yacht can't have 4/5 gunboat turrets whilst having stats inferior to the Zoner GB? Because it would be too good?
Personally, I don't mind them being balanced towards each other or not - they're not fighting ships, and if I ever saw the two of them fight each other, I'd probably be sick. Just, the Kusari Luxury Transport has a lot of things going for it that make it unique, fun to own/fly and worth buying. The Yacht is a really nice model, and a bunch of fail. And costs 60 million more for the privelidge.
Go on Jinx, you know you secretly want it to be great;)
