Corvette dmg vs capital ships

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Although corvettes seem to be fairly balanced now, there is one thing that I believe requires adjusting- damage vs capital armor.

It's not raw dps that's bothering me, but fact that because of huge speed advantage corvettes can chase down and kill your cap, no matter what clever evasive maneuvers you will pull off, and quickly return to the battlefield. Even in days of LRF spam it wasn't all that hard to shake off chasing frigates.

This forces you to keep your cap ridiculously close to repair, which (in case of Advent and probably Vasari) is often not enough.

I propose nerfing corvette dmg vs capital armor.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

/strongly agree  :thumbsup:

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Unfortunately since corvettes use the same damage type as heavy cruisers nerfing them against capital ships would also nerf heavies. Unless the devs want to make a new damage type for them, which would make all future balancing much easier. :thumbsup: But so far they don't seem eager to do that...

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I'd say corvettes are as close to balanced as they can get right now without being not useful. The higher logistics cost really presses that.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

It sounds like someone hunted down one of your caps with corvettes across several gravity wells and killed it!  It's happened to me too and I've had the same exact thoughts.  However, at least now the corvettes aren't as good of a purchase as they were before.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting DirtySanchezz, reply 4
It sounds like someone hunted down one of your caps with corvettes across several gravity wells and killed it! It's happened to me too and I've had the same exact thoughts. However, at least now the corvettes aren't as good of a purchase as they were before.

I did it to some people, some people did it to me. Why does it matter? Corvettes still need balancing.