So, backing up? Possibly the most annoying thing to defend against, especially when you're in the slower ship. Say they're in a CV, no chance.

So perhaps a stat, Reverse Speed. 90% of the total forward max speed.
For light ships, 90%
Medium 95%
and heavy 100%

For the balance. As light ships are very overused in pvp and pve.

That's the whole point of the Corvult though. Damn vult needs a frontal profile nerf more then it needs a speed reduction.

You already have a speed disadvantage when going backwards though. Moving forward, you can turbo to catch up.

So, backing up? Possibly the most annoying thing to defend against

Erm, no. It's very easy to defend against somebody backing away from you. Now, if you want to offend against them, that becomes annoying.

Reverse "speed" should be the same as all speeds. Our physics are goofy enough already. Reverse thrust, on the other hand, could make sense to be lower.

Hmm. That is all.

This has been debated before with the conclusion that lowering the max reverse speed would make flares very OP. This is due to the fact that the best way to dodge flares is to reverse thrust.

Eh, just remove 'em.

Nah, nerfing flares or ship reverse (let alone both) would make Rin very OP, and I'm sure nobody wants that. Besides me maybe.

I say we all just take turns firing at each other and make all ship models use the behemoth model.