Different top speed for LF, HF, VHF/SHF and bomber

[reisiger_duke]

Then wouldn't the Lightfighters rape everything? (Heavy, Very, Bomber)

If you have a horde of light fighters? Sure, they'd eat up anything that can't absorb their combined DPS (damage per second), but the benefit of a heavier fighter is always to be able to shrug off more damage than the lighter classes can.

HF's are already used a lot. They have great agility -and- they have a torp mount. Just most people automatically go for the VHF as soon as they think fighters. LF's are used a bit too, but only really the Liberator, the Nomad Assassin and Morphling, and perhaps some Kusari ones are deployed in great numbers. Agreed that most others could use a little buff.

Argonaut, SHF's are pretty well useless, as Nighthawk said. Bomber-bait. Size of a gunboat and one SNAC sends them to hell. The only people you'll be killing are idiots, or maybe capships with the right loadout.

As for the general idea: Way too fiddly. Balancing nightmares. More trouble than its worth, and the potential to completely tear apart the community if it's done wrong.

I don't think it'll create a schism or something in the community at all. As those changes would only affect which fighter class can catch up to another one, or catch up to a bomber... which will probably annoy a lot of folks, as they'd no longer be able to avoid contact when thrusting away from a fighter... and on their part need fighter cover.

If we really needed to implement these ideas.. small changes. 10 m/s up for LFs, 5 for HFs or something.

Also possible, but if the differences are too small, the effect of catching up in time - and thus being able to attack an attacker :mellow: - will be lost.

Not nessesary, Just Hit the A and D keys a bit to not get Air SNACed

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Before replying, please bear in mind this post is about applying speed changes only! Other ideas - especially about Bomber nerfing other than speed, adding an explosion radius to a SNAC, etc. please discuss about in a seperate topic!

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