We're holding off beefing it until we know what exactly we are dong to Gunner.

Honestly, no matter what you do to the Gunner class the ZT is still an ugly child. The RP Ships do what it does, better.

Honestly, no matter what you do to the Gunner class the ZT is still an ugly child. The RP Ships do what it does, better.

Balance the ZT in line with the HM. My personal opinion is the ZT should be more powerful than the HM since copper is fairly common and easy to aquire and Platinum is just...BLeck. If you balance it off a class it will simply be broken or insane for some other class. Or entirely worthless..

The FC's have to use it too.. Since auras cant be equipped on any other ships and you left us with bonuses to capital ships.

The moment the ZT doesn't need ZRMs is when it doesn't cost plat. Get it through your head that it requires platinum to get to the point where you can build one. Therefore a cost. Your argument is invalid. That is like saying a dread doesn't cost anything, when the research to build it is commodity intensive. You cannot have one without the other because someone has to spend the money and time to build the ZRMs.
Back to the real topic.

*Note, all items can be balanced as needed.


Part 1: Missiles.
-All missiles changed to use a Kinetic Missile as a base. Means the max damage comes from going fast. Spammers deprived of ability to deal high spamming damage.


Part 2: Damage.
Damage all across the board is increased vastly. A Gunner would do in the range of 75%-80% the damage of a Zerk. With missiles, said gunner can pull 100% the damage of a zerk.

The issue, is that while a gunner could do this kind of damage, the gunner can only do this damage in a capital ship.

The Gunner also must sit at a range to gain maximum punch from their Kinetic missile base.


Part 3: "Aggressive" Capital Ships.
A hybrid of a Heavy Fighter and a Capital. Basically, a Heavy Fighter tagged as a Capital Ship.

These "Hybrids" can take the models/graphics already in game from a few Heavy Fighters. Texture/Size is different. Personally, the size should be bigger than current HF's like rosy/zebra/wave, yet smaller than a dread/PBF/BS

Class locked Ships/BP loot can be added as needed, but a T13, T16, T19, T20, and T21 types would exist. Dreads would be seen as Fleet Focus(includes FC) ships.


Part 4: Debuffs.
Gunners would have access to Gunner-locked Aura Gens. These do not provide a field, merely take the slot. What they do is change the gunner's debuff from the default destruction to one of a various other kinds of debuffs. Unequipping any equipped gunner aura resets debuff back to default destruction.

Stupid RC change.

Stabberz repeating what I said