Originally by: Jin Entres

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Well, he has some points. Less damage versus better tanks. It's a problem for all blaster ships. It's increasingly difficult to reach and stay in blaster range with speed setups more common.

The biggest problem, however, in my opinion is cap usage. Not only is cap more under attack by nos, but the increased length of engagements has obviously also increased the amount of time needed to run guns, tackling, propulsion and tank. Blasterships were already weak in this regard, relying on killing their opponents before cap death.

7 Ion II's consume 25.6 cap/s* which equals roughly 2+ heavy nos on you constantly. Megathron with maxed cap skills and MWD fitted has a peak recharge (2.4x modifier) of 14.6 cap/s. That is, it can't even sustain the guns, much less anything else. A T2 heavy injector provides 57 cap/s, so after guns there is 46 cap/s. LAR II is 35.5, scrambler and web are about 5 total, and all other modules such as hardeners and damage control are maybe 3 more, which puts the capacitor status at about +2 cap/s.

That means both A. that there is practically zero margin for being nossed to sustain it and B. that MWD's usage is drained from max cap, which usually means that it's used to get in range, bringing the cap down near the 30-40% peak spot.

And that's with just one repper. Considering battleships that use weapon systems that do not require cap (Typhoon, Tempest, Maelstrom, Dominix (mostly), Raven) can do competitive damage while tanking considerably better and even having better range and better fitting options, even utility slots for nos with guns, I would definitely argue that blasterthrons and hypes are disadvantaged.

I don't want them to be buffed hugely, but I would appreciate it if the cap issue was addressed.

* With:
2 MFS II
3% RoF Hardwiring
Gunnery V
Rapid Firing V
Controlled Bursts IV

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