Player Features and Ideas Discussion

ok,
i am a fan of all the ships and their roles.
but, it isnt fair or balanced (glass cannon or not). you have 2 stout bc and then one really quick one with massive fire power.

this should be carrier to the bs line. the attack bs should be alot more agil and speedy than it is now or fortold to be in the summer expansion. it should also have better fire power than all bs or smaller craft (except the marauder when balancing comes out for them). to have a bs with the same firepower as a bc, but 1/10 the mobility isnt following a linear progression.

the attack bs should have the mass of the standard bc (use harby for this example) with the bs thruster. it should have more fire power than what it has now. you can achieve this by giving it 6 turrets/launchers at 2x weapon damage.
this would be for the attack class only. give them something folks would want to fly that cannot be accomplished by a normal abc.
the abc ammounts to 10 large guns. this attack bs ammounts to 12 large weapons.

Battleships are bigger and have more ehp instead of mobility. Thats the trade off.

sorry, i was in a rush.

what i was getting at, was to mimick the bc line, there are 2 bc and 1 attack bc. the attack bc does every bit as much damage as a normal attack bs.

in the bs line, we have the "so called" attack bs which has the same firepower of an attack bc.
other than fleet engagements, why would anyone fly an attack bs? its slow and bulky with the same firepower as a smaller class of ship.

now, if we follow the same pattern as whats layed out before us, the attack bs would have substantially more fire power than its brotheren and WAY more than a lower class (bc) of ships all together.

since we only have 8 slots, the only thing we can do is multiply the damage output on the attack bs. the abc gets 8 large plus 25% damage which = 10 large weapons. we can do 8 large on the attack bs but a higher damage output, or use less weapons and have an even larger damage modifier.

if we went with 8 large weapons @ 5% per level, its the = to 10 guns.
8 large @ 7.5% per level= 11 guns
8 large at 10% per level = 12 guns.

we can juggle numbers all day, point is, i am saying we need something a tad more powerful than a bc.
ITS A BATTLESHIP for christs sake. the yamimoto in WWII was the most fearsum thing on the water because of its 18" cannons, followed by our bs's and their 15" guns. there was NO BATTLECRUISE IN HISTORY that matched the fire power of the mighty mo'. and we had 4 of them. we had other battleships that had fire power and we had bc that dished out almost as much....but there should be a set of ships (1 per race) that brings the pain...

im not going to take credit for the mega change, but that was my exact suggestion.
the brawler gets 7 guns with a 10% damage bonus instead of 8 @ 5%.
that give 10.5 large guns as opposed to the normal 10 worth of damage. not a big change, but cap savings is there, ammo savings.....
a little different than the norm, and if they did this to all the attack ships, it would be kewl.
more gank, less tank.

yeah, it was a dread, but we already have dreads here and i know they wouldnt wanna change the name.

we need another class above the bs but not quite into caps. with the rebalance, that wont happen, but a destroyer/bc type vessle above a bs would be awesome.
about 60 m/s or so.. =)