Schine has said they are going to be doing some small vs large ship balancing, so ostensibly smaller stuff will be a bit more useful in the future. No idea what it'll look like, though.
A lot of the titan pilots feel pretty threatened about the concept of torpedo bombers and similar small craft--in reality unless the hull is literally dotted with point defense and anti-fighter arrays, small fighters will have the mobility advantage (if the pilot is skilled enough) and can do some serious damage to weak points (such as the thrusters). Their balance isn't a weapon thing, their balance comes from the fact that even a glancing blow from a battleship scale weapon is going to swat them out of the sky. This... seems to elude the "generation award-for-attending" types, who want their Big Brick Of Doom to just win. Period. Full stop.
So there's some need for balancing. And possibly some rocks to throw at the folks that don't understand that their wall of battle ships are only able to wall of battle because they generally require screening ships so that wolfpacks of smaller ships don't shred them. >.>
As the drone thread proves, when they're picked apart by the flies, they
really lose their shit. But I digress...
You and I need to get together then. My new transport ship has quite a few features that might interest you.
Possibly... I actually do my tinkering and design in creative mode offline when my net is running slowly so I have yet to join any large population servers (I don't count anything small hosted within my social circle).
Should be able to share notes--I've got a drone rack/fighter retracting mount that would likely convert quite well to a recessed drone/power armor storage unit... I need to go hammer out a storage pod.
