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People insisting it's fine as-is are blinding themselves to the issue at hand. Figuring out how it should work is pretty simple; here's my take:

-light fighters take 2, maybe 3 hits [presumably from a ship mounting at least two 2000dmg blasters], but are frigging hard to hit (as we can all observe by fighting NPC awings, scyk, kihraxzand interceptors). They equip one medium gun and maybea light warhead, and harry the enemy (frigging irritating things they are)

-medium fighters take 3-4 hits, carry a warhead (probably a proton torpedo) and a pair of guns. Versatile and good to have around because they can dogfight or make bombing runs

-heavy fighers and bombers take 4-5 hits (enough that they can get hit, pull away, and not be worried), and carry either a lot of projectile guns and a decent warhead (fighters) or a pair of good guns and a payload of fiery death.

-MP ships take a LOT of hits so that they can be the target of bombing runs, equip turret-mounted blasters that do a fair crop of damage (since it's pretty hard to hit with a turret), have warheads... in essence, one should be at least as deadly as a flight of fighters, since it's got the same crew.

Right now, the only ships worth flying are light, because ALL ships have the light-ship characteristics minus the maneuvrability advantage. My personal opinion is that either level 9/10 certs should be a darn sight better and about twice as heavy, or MP ships should be able to equip multiple layers of shields, armour, multiple reactors, etc. I'm more in favour of the first option, because it makes more room for the fun alternative of focusing a master/tier4 heavy fighter on aspecific role by giving it a cruiser-grade piece of equipment. It would be pretty fun to have a near-indestructible rihkxyrk with a tier 10 shield that weighed 150k of the available 190. Obviously the rest of your equipment would be stinted as a result, but we'd see a lot more weird and interesting heavy ship combinations based on play style.

The one-hit-kill needn't be eliminated completely, especially for light fighters, but it makes no sense for that to apply to everything. I don't think PvP damage reduction is the way to go about this -at all-, since light fighters will remain just as much better than the heavy as they are right now. It's not the nature of PvP that's confused, it's the balance.

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You also have to keep something else in mind when comparing the speed of a light fighter and a heavy fighter with the same engine. Not only does that heavy fighter take a hit to the max speed, acceleration, and YPR stats just for putting it on that heavy ship, but the heavy ships also have a much lower effective combat speed. The pure max speed stat is only really useful if he is running away, and if you are in a faster more maneuverable ship there is no way he should be able to.

The only real place the engine speed is unbalancing is in PvE as the AI is too stupid to realize they are in a faster more nimble ship, and don't fly as such.

Did a slight correction for you. I mean, if I got 10k for both my armor slots, why would I put anything but armor that's got as many armor HP in each slot, maximizing that slot. I got 20k mass set aside for a booster? Guess I'll drop a level 8 RE'd one in there. 40k mass for an engine? I'll drop an L10 monster in there, heck thats about 2/3's just the current mass. You can fit a L9 reactor in 35k mass, and why wouldn't you? Honestly, what on earth makes you think 62-65k would be average on an a-wing under your system? If all you have to worry about is mass max for a given component, as it doesn't affect the rest of the ship in any way, tell me why you wouldn't just max out each and every component for that mass level?

I think he was saying what the A-Wing mass is currently.

Eaca, the point of the proposal was not to change the current max mass of any spaceframes, just to limit the masses of each type of component in different ways, yet allow room for customization.

The idea has merit, however there are general and specific issues I have with it.

First, I think itwon't work well with the current inconsistencies in level/mass/effect when it comes to the current randomized loot.

Second, only 10k mass for a weapon? Part of the design intent of an interceptor type vessel is to deliver significant firepower quickly. Space for defense is sacrificed for the sake of maneuverabilty and speed, but firepower isn't sacrificed any more than need be. My best RE'd level6 guns come in at 9.9k mass. I've never seen a crafted level7 gun below 12k mass.The reward gun granted inthe same tier as the Awing certification would never ever fit in it under these guidelines. Yes, I am aware that in current PvP almost any gun works, and that the Awing is become a mainly PvP vessel, but no system implemented can blatantly force a particular ship type into a "PvP only" role. Could an Awing under this new system still handle the foes in the tier in which the cert was granted? No, not in a timely fashion.

Gilack Mehoipou [Bloodfin]

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I am nearly always overt and looking for overt Alliance fliers to fight with, but never find them.

Note to rebels everywhere: go overt and come see me. I've usually got at least 4 or more members of my squadron with me, so bring friends. I bought a rubber stamp of an Alliance X-Wing fighter, and have only had a chance to stamp it 3 times on my Kihraxz fuselage (3 confirmed PvP kills so far, and one was kinda....*cough*...cheap).Please give me a chance to use my stamp again!

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