For the sake of consistency bump the size of capswarm tubes to 80cu and cap gauss to 50, Raise the buy prices in deneb/geira barracks to 2~3x the purchase price.

Caprail is already at 80cu and go for 500k, would be nice if they sold in deneb for a bit more creds.

It's not going to see much use as a trade route but bumping these two addons volume to something more consistent with capship sized modules makes plenty of sense; giving them a good buy price in the warzone would make the odd capship kill in deneb that much more valuable particularly if a newer player manages to splode a player cap in a skirm would make for a nice payout.

Impact on gameplay... practically fuck-all capships will still be able to haul plenty of turrets and the odd capship kill that drops stuff will be that much more of a pain in the ass to scoop for whoever sploded the capship.

While I'm at it all turret type weapons should see an increase from 1cu to 5 cu, big gimbles and such...

So.. I don't remember all the specifics, but I think these were set lower not because of player-combat balance issues, but because in large battles the bandwidth cost of having that many "missiles in flight" was problematic.

Same with the Gauss. It's a bit of a "brake" on the total amount of crap flying around at once, which, with a whole bunch of capships (NPC and PC) can be.. quite significant.

It's certainly something we can revisit, like everything else. I'm just recollecting why there is an inconsistency in the first place.

Dude... is my English really that bad? :P

I'm talking about the size/volume of the cargo widget and the sell price of the addon; absolutely nothing to do with combat; outside of scooping the dropped turrets after an engagement the increase in volume will make it harder for a subcap to make away with a bunch of capital sized addons.

Currently subcap turrets(firecracker, gemini, gauss cannon) are all 1cu these could see a bump to 3~5cu

Capship should also be bumped up in volume but to a much greater extent.

Raising the sell price in deneb/geira is just a bonus.

I'll just make a shitty list with the changes below make it easier to read.

Capgauss current volume 1cu > 50cu
Capital Swarm launcher 1cu > 80cu

Grr got the 15m edit rule ridin' up my crack...

Widget volume change:
Capgauss 1cu -> 50cu
Capital Swarm launcher 1cu -> 80cu

Buy price changes in deneb O3 and Geira Rutilus O4:
Capgauss 500k > 1m
Capswarm 200k > 800k
Caprail 500k > 1.5m

Mass changes:
Capgauss 10kg(lol) -> 5000kg
Capswarm 2500kg -> 6000kg

Given the relative mass of capships both NPC/PC this change won't be noticeable in combat the idea is to make capship components... bulky and massive because capships are massive and bulky: Huzzah for consistency!

Sorry, I was pretty tired last night, and missed the "cu" reference, etc.

I see, I'll need to dig into this a little, to re-familiarize myself, but I'm open to adjusting things.