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Talking of Evadne's reports:
Junker: "From an Arashi blueprint for building an airworthy ship with a minimum of materials..."
and GeoRmr is correct in saying that they tell us the Spire is originally from the Baronies.
While you seemed to completely ignore that this isn't a gunner vs engie thread.....
It was never said that a buff hammer was the end all be all of gunning. The straight opinion is it gives too large a bonus on any gun on top of any ammo loaded, thus throwing off balance. The gatling was just an example.
Before we go about nerfing the buff hammer, shouldn't we first establish that in its current state it has issues. Sure you get the pro of extra damage. However you still have the cons of
Time spent buffing. During this time you are giving up other potential things you should be doing.
Short duration of buff. Requires timing and makes it difficult (though not impossible) to keep up during a fight
Use of a repair tool slot. A buff engineer has to either give up specializing his repair or rebuild or has to sacrifice a fire tool.
I think these make up for the 20% strength.
Time spent buffing, Sammy, you know most guns can be kept constantly buffed during reload cycles, and the fact that before most battles all the guns are pre-buffed to get a quick kill. Point is, it is still more worth while to run buff engi then to go gunner (sorry for bringing up class vs class Zill, but currently the buff hammer is a big selling point to not have gunners on a ship, so it is bound to come up.) Also, I would not call this idea a nerf, but a repurposing of the tool. Changing it from a tool to assist in kills to a tool to assist in defense.
Part of the light flack's uselessness comes from the aim jitter combined with arming time. It doesn't work at long ranges due to the jitter and it doesn't work at close ranges due to the arming time. The Artemis has no aim jitter or arming time so it is effective at all ranges. Going from Awkm's history, if one tool is too good in too many situations, he removes its usefulness in one of those situations to make the other tools more desirable.
God don't even kid like that. Light Flak is useless enough with it's arming time, and the Hades pumps out enough damage to overcome that downfall.
Squid used Quick attack,
The Spyglass and Rangefinder would be excellent in the Omni-class item slot. It would allow captains who have filled all their slots with useful things like Pheonix Claw.. Kerosene.. and Hydrogen to also bring in a prized gadget like the spyglass. Then gunners and engineers could bring in Kerosene for quick escapes just in case the captain lags out or leaves the match.
Now I heard you say if they removed the spyglass from the pilot slot that that slot would become useless to gunners and engineers, but think about how already useless hardclip and a buff hammer are to a captain when he needs to be piloting, but he still can bring them in anyway for the why-nots.
Honestly, one of my biggest issues with the gun is that harpoons were not used against ships, and the only reason to use one against a whale (given how dangerous they often were to the whalers) was so that you knew where it was when it died. SO WHY ARE WE USING THEM ON AIRSHIPS?!?
Seriously. I'd much rather a huge armor-piercing ballista than a harpoon, because there really isn't a logical reason to keep a ship tied to you when you don't have boarding and you don't need to find it once it's died to harvest its fat for oil.
I believe Muse mentioned in their interviews that each faction will have its own distinctive playstyle.
also, I think the Junker would be a ship of the Arashi League. They are independent people with access to a lot of scraps, ideal for building ship like this.
The Goldfish has the same Asian lanterns on board as the Galleon does, but it has a much different style to it therefore I'm not sure whether it truly is a Yeshan vessel.
The Spire I would associate with the Anglean Republic due to its mechanical design (unlike the Goldfish or Galleon which are mainly built from wood). However, It is not the aggressive kind of ship that would fit that faction. Maybe it's rather a ship from the Baronies?
