Suggestion: Give cap ships/SBs flak guns

from Sins Forums

While I'm no expert of MP, I've seen (and experienced to some extent) corvette rushes that are extremely hard to counter. You need flak frigates to deal with them, but you don't usually get these unless your enemy is massing carriers. Giving some flak capabilities to cap ships and SBs would increase your odds of winning battles against corvette heavy fleets. It would also fit "lore" wise, since bigger ships usually carry many anti-aircraft guns (heck, just watch any documentary on WW2 pacific sea battles, and you'd see that ships are equipped with dozens of AA guns. Scary stuff when they fire at will).

As of now, only Titans are naturally equipped with Flak guns. Why can't cap ships get at least one? Not only could it help balance the game, it would also look cool as hell.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

The TEC Kol Battleship has a flak ability. Also can get a flak ability for the hanger defence stations. But it would be cool for every Cap ship to have a flak cannon or two.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

It has been suggested that the Kol, Radiance and Kortul have their autocannons, laser batteries, and pulse beams respectively changed to anti-light damage and made able to target strike craft.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Considering we can now add a fourth and fifth weapon on to the caps we might as well go that direction.

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Honestly, IMO they don't need them all that badly.  With the aforementioned change when I was testing it, the Kol ripped through corvettes much faster than it's normal kill rate (capital damage deals 25% damage to them whereas anti-light deals 100%).  The Radiance was still rather lackluster so I increased it's port and starboard banks to two targets.  I didn't bother testing the Kortul, but given that it's a pretty decent ship already, I wasn't as concerned.