After remaining silent throughout most of this now because fighting to be listened too is practically impossible, I have noticed a lot and one of the things I have noticed scares me if I'm totally honest.
(If this is removed then my point stands valid)
If your for the change and want the nerf to be what it is, you get treated respectfully, however when people like myself try and explain that it isn't what it should be (Especially in the armor category) then your going to get staff attack your comments, be biased against the players that have different opinions (Especially like Veteran players of Potco) No offence to the guy that started this thread but you did a good job, but other devs defending this thread by saying he isn't staff. As far as I'm aware he is WIKI Staff, Staff is Staff, Wiki for TLOPO is related to this game so he is your member of staff, so this vote is very much official. However, also noting what is scaring is that not 1 staff member is arguing against valid points about the copperhead, not 2 but 3 & Moderators. Now if you shy away from not being biased at this stage then there is no hope left.
This is how the copperhead is right now;
- Squishy, underpar to other ship upgrades.
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-Back when Disney ran the operations it use to be Tanky, highest tier of all upgrades, slow.
So now in this case you refer this to "Balancing" With the current meta, data & performance of the Copperhead, where is the balancing of the materials to compensate for how much beating it's taken since vanilla? All because of a few SvS players complained because they couldn't SOLO a Copperhead? What happened to exploiting a ships weakness, in this case for a copperhead would be the Speed and the Turning rate. Back in the days of POTCO, people complimented how strong it was, but they still sunk them. Back then you PAID for what you got, now you're wasting your time, as I mentioned in another post you may as well just get rid of the ship all together, rather than see it like this.
For example, I tested with a friend, 3 gunners on a sloop, all fury, given 1 broadside of a copperhead, the damage output was so bad it took damage like a vanilla ship would (INCLUDING WITH TAKE COVER).
(If this is removed then my point stands valid staff have a biased point of view)