Transport alterations

[tyro]

yes, I like it.

[jxie93]

Considering this minor change shouldn't have much impact on balancing and only contributes towards the conveience of transport users, I support such suggestion.

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[mjolnir]

If bigger transports get to be much easier to fly (say 50 m/s reverse)... what will be the advantage of medium transports then?

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[SeaFalcon]

If bigger transports get to be much easier to fly (say 50 m/s reverse)... what will be the advantage of medium transports then?

Agility?

[Unseelie]

I'mma call straw argument on the additional 50 m/s. Jammi did propose to increase all transport (even the smaller ones are at 15) reverse speeds to 30, so you're inflating numbers to make the proposal seem more unbalancing than it is.

How much of a difference is 20m/s? Well, it would make the difference between being able to kite gunboats or not, so there's a drastic difference in the proposals.

We're asking that they be easier to fly, yeah. But if the bonus to smaller transports, against added cargospace, hull, and often weaponry, is to be slightly easier to maneuver...Well, I think you'll find the distribution heavily weighted toward the heavier ships. In fact I daresay that's the case.

'easy to maneuver' as a motivation for flying smaller transports, I will argue, has failed spectacularly. Cheap has done slightly better, but still not given them a great place in the distribution. There's other things that could be done, of course, and I've a laundry list as per my norm, but here's neither the time nor the place.

How about we give transports a reverse speed of 30? It'll make getting them stuck a lot less frustrating.
If smaller ones must be more maneuverable (and the astute reader will notice that all transports, even the smaller ones, currently have a reverse of 15)...perhaps give them a reverse speed of 35?

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[jammi]

If bigger transports get to be much easier to fly (say 50 m/s reverse)... what will be the advantage of medium transports then?

Uns is right. Currently all the transports have the same speed, so that point is moot. I'm asking that all transports should be scaled up respectively.

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