veteran steamrunner overpowered

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 9:32 pm

today i played as ffeds against klingons.
i got a veteran steamrunner(killed one bilder, a mining station and 2 yards)
so i said: i'll try out my new vet.steamrunner. i moved it inside a fleet and got near enemy starbase.
the ships killed of the defending army, (the rest was on the way to my base, and now wrecking rampage in enemy base. now i tried to use my steamrunner to weaken the starbase a bit.
it needed 15 seconds to destroy it.
i think even one vet.steamrunner ist way to strong, and the vet. ability should just transfer a percentage of th damage to hull, not everything.
imagine 3 vet steamrunners coming into your base, needing 6 seconds or so to destroy your stabase, taking out all turrets from afar, and also killing ships as fast as a medium cruiser.

what are your experiences with steamrunners?

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 9:45 pm

Steamrunners are fine. Yes they are a strong artillery ship, but that's why they are limited to warp-in.

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 9:58 pm

Not only will Steamrunners be automatically targeted before nearly any other Federation ship by attackers, but once a heavy cruiser or battleship closes to range on one, it's dead unless it has cover. I love them, but I can't just use them without escort.

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 10:00 pm

Yeah, considering they are the very first ship I target... very few people ever get to rank them up once--let alone get them to veteran level

Veteran Torpedo Refit Rhienn is pretty powerful too... but I wouldn't dare say any of the veterans are overpowered... given that it rarely occurs, and is more due to chance

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 10:07 pm

If they are well protected Steamrunners actually rank up pretty quickly due to the amount of damage that they deal.

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 10:31 pm

How pray tell do you protect something well if it is the first thing to be targeted? 

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 11:26 pm

I think that the veteran steamrunner should have a little less attack power, but in return have a little bit more defense as a veteran, cause it dies really easily and I rarely get them to level up, but with the proper escort and 2 veteran steamrunners I took down a base quite fast.

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 11:27 pm

How pray tell do you protect something well if it is the first thing to be targeted? 

By reversing the polarity, of course!

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 11:59 pm

posted on July 23rd, 2009, 12:10 pm

Why weaken the veteran Steamrunner? If a ship like that can survive to veteran, then it deserves the power it gets.

posted on July 30th, 2009, 7:58 pm

yeah, you forget that steamrunners have no close rasnge phasers, and lower defenses then an intrepid, take them out early