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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
Presumably because they believe Xan (or a fleet strategy involving Xan, which comes down to the same) isn't good enough.
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That is purely because of the awfulness of these stats. Xan is completely unviaible. These stats are gauged around de forts and they made the peg a 1 ship wrecking ball to Xan.
If you make a proper set and make Xan remotely competitive then cloak is OP. For rounds and rounds Xan has been a nightmare to balance. As soon as it can roid 3/5 races it becomes OP. The fact the peg has been made to completely nullify it shows how powerful the ability is.
Xan cannot land Terran (the most picked race) and itself (counterproductive) in rd73 stats. It's not competitive and overly gimped to nullify it's threat. If Xan could have done either of these things then it would have had a much larger share of the player base. On top of that no cloak was added to Etd roiding fleets, further gimping the ability because of its strength in combat. As nearly always etd has gone down the 'safe' emp/norm route to avoid balance issues.