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Originally Posted by Squidly
Could someone tell me why class-class stealing is a horrible thing? I'm {sadly} not understanding it  |
First and foremost, it's a bad idea when it comes to pod-classes because it allows people to grow the attack fleet while attacking. For other ships it's a bad idea because you build them and then you can grow your attack fleet while attacking with it.
Basically it works like this: If you have FR->FR stealer, and attack with it, mostly hitting (say) zik, you get exponential growth from the roids, plus exponential growth from the stealing. Or if you have CR->CR without a CR pod, you use them first to attack someone with CR pods or defend vs CR, and you're in the same situation.
It's even worse if the ship is 0-loss, like the Pirate was in r13. Then you could just build a few Pirates, and all of the sudden you'd magically have a BS fleet.
It's possible to make it a little less exponential with ships like the Scarab and Syren, but even with these, it becomes pretty mindless. And mindless is exactly what Zik shouldn't be.