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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
Pre-PAX 6 tick defences in compared to 3 tick attacks would have "eased" defending to some extent, especially with multi-targetting. Now you need a suitable defence fleet for each tick by specific.
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I'm not sure about this, given the current combat engine (ie, single targets) - if you have send anti FR against the first wave, and have it defend for 2/3/6 ticks, it will only be effective for any following ticks if more anti FR was sent. But if the second (for example) attacking fleet was DE, then not only is the anti FR not going to kill the DE fleet, but the attacking DE fleet could still kill the anti FR; thus, there is incentive to only defend for the single tick and recall (rewarding the active?) unless in the specific case of two of the same class inbound - and even then, it might not be very healthy for the defenders (eg, Xan FR followed by Zik FR with Harpies defending, or whatever).
That aside, what K-W said was on the mark, imo.