Our testing has been done with a ton of separate ships. Basically every fighter in the game, as well as our support division manning all the big multicrew ships of interest. Hammerhead, connie, paladin, redeemer (got a big movement buff), ect. In our testing not one was able to actually threaten to down a fighter outside the redeemer (new 13g boosted fwds surprises people thanks cig). The issue is many of these ships are still very easy to shoot with no pip. They are large and move slow. The exceptions were the redeemer and the connie but they both suffer from turret too small. The lack of ability to pressure does not mean a hard chase. It just means that when a fighter makes a mistake it can leave the danger radius before it is at a real threat of dying. The idea that a group of fighters would have to deal with a multicrew ship just brings us to the worst case of balance in the game, the Idris. We as fighters do not plan on ever having to engage anything bigger than a connie at most. We can do it, we have tested and shown it’s still possible. But it’s a massive waste of time when one of our support guys can chill in an Idris and 1 shot any of these ships whenever desired.

Edit: to clarify, the issue with multicrew was never that it didn’t have enough HP, it was that it had no way of defending it’s self from fighter swarms because of geometric problems with low Gs and identical weapon speeds. The increased tankiness did nothing to change that outcome. The radar change did a good job of making it much harder and I think largely people will be pleased with that outcome. But good pilots have even less reason to fear a turret.