Recycler balance

[El Nino]

If the Recycler had the aforementioned powercore buff it would be that little bit more versatile.

To start here, I would like to comment on Recycler, as the codesigner of this ship and member of 4.85 balance team and enthusiast flyer of Recycler (even if nearly a year ago).

Recycler is the most versatile ship on offer in sirius today. It is part fighter part freighter part bomber and it can fulfill any of those roles to a limited extent.

I used it for some rather fun mischief in new tokyo and other Hogosha territories. My loadout consisted of shield buster turrets + codes (jades or something), CD + Nova torpedo and starkiller or sunslayer. This loadout then emphasizes it's strengths quite well with a few well thought out fighting procedures.

For example fighters.. I addopted my gunboat technique when fighting fighters.. first i established how good the enemy pilot is. If the enemy is very poor I would simply joust them and bring them down with accurate weapon fire and very good freighter shield + starkiller torpedo. If the pilot is to good for that, simple evasive techniques running away using mines and rear turrets to wear them down. with that many nanobots there never was a time i simply couldn't run away well.

Gunboats. Here you are an obvious underdog. However, with shield busting turrets you can dish out enough shield damage to drain the gunboat shield.. and once you do a nova torpedo on a "suicide" run will quickly render the gunboat useless. Withou even you needing to kill it.

Same goes for transports but way way more easy. You can easily dodge transports at maximum shield buster range, simply drain.. launch nova.. strip them of weapons give them the finger and ask for a donation.

So freighter part you might ask? Well check the cargo capacity.. it's not that bad for a space exploration ship. In any case when fighting a fighter I prefeer it compared to Junker bomber options. It's versatile and should be flown unlike any other ship. If you do fly it with a cookie cutter concept then it does fail at roles traditionaly meant for diffrent ships.

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