[BloodyButcher]

There is a reason why im saying that leaving out ETD might cause problems, and its only because of ETD having EMP ships.

The interaction FI vs CO is no issue realy.
While on paper, much like Jintao`s stats r65(?) you are arguing that you "can" solo with these stats, but the main issue imho is that there has to be a lot of "prefireing def ships" if there is only one race with EMP.

Pegasus can stop 3/8 attack fleets(xan/ter/zik FI CO)
Wyvern 1/8
Rogue 1/8
etc etc....

In the past, this would not be that much of an issue, but given that the other features/tag counting stays the same, every tag out there can easily have 10-20 "support planets" in tag, who can send fleets without even logging in.
This does play a big role in the options we got to design stats that is based around being "offensive", atleast with EMP ships you will have to break the EMP to stop a attacking fleet, while with "prefiring" ships it only has to be enough to make the calc red for the attacker if you want to force a recall.