[Influence]

Scarab was OP, mainly because it meant cath had a 1 ship attackfleet, which generally is OP. General EMP effectiveness was a bit on the high end, but wouldn't say too high across the board.

xan lagging probably also had something to do with slow research and needing CR for faking.

While Ter is fairly strong defensively, you can't really land anyone without a teamup, whilst xans (and etd DE) has podrun capabilities. The only race they could hit by themselfs were xan, and fakes were hard to do early on with bombers hitting both their podclasses. Later on baliff hit so hard that even a fleet of fake baliff ensured bombers could stay and fight most of the time making fakes impossible still.