Warning long post
This round I have seen massive co/fi fleets being unstoppable with no need for players to build other
ships. I have thought about addressing this ship inbalance as perhaps many of you have. Here is my
suggestion.
What if co/fi were able to attack cr/bs however cr/bs cannot attack co/fi. At first this seems a bad
idea but bare with me on this and all will become clear.
The main point in my idea:
1)co/fi can attack cr/bs with small damage. Attack themselves with good damage and attack fr/de with
average damage
2)cr/bs with their big guns but low tracking speed cannot attack co/fi. They can attack them selves with
good damage. They can attack de/fr with excellent damage
3)fr/de can attack co/fi with excellent damage, attack themselves with good damage, attack cr/bs with
average damage.
Examples of why this is a good idea:
-If you have just a co/fi fleet you are extremely vunrable to low numbers of fr/de due to the high
damage caused so that is not a good idea (ie a high value co/fi fleet can be destroyed by a low value
fr/de fleet).
-Having just a de/fr fleet you are extremly vunrable to cr/bs due to the high damage they cause with low
numbers to fr/de (ie a high value fr/de fleet can be destroyed by a low value cr/bs fleet).
-Having just a bs/cr fleet makes you vunerable to a co/fi fleet due to the fact that you cant fight
back.
so let try some combinations
-A fi/co + cr/bs fleet is vunrable to a de/fr + cr/bs fleet
-A de/fr + cr/bs fleet is vunrable to a large cr/bs fleet
Here is where my balance falls down
-A fi/co + de/fr fleet is the weakest and you may as well just have a de/fr + cr/bs unless co/fi are
able to cause high damage to cr/bs ships (in which case it would be excellent against a de/fr + cr/bs
fleet. The way this could be understood is that fi and co have large rates of fire and are cheap so
large numbers can be built and fire a mass volley which cr/bs cannot avoid but fr/de with their speed
being faster than cr/bs can avoid and when they fire back the co/fi are in trouble.
This idea perhaps needs some work but what do you think.
Main ideas are:
-bs/cr are very vunrable to co/fi
-co/fi are very vunrable to fr/de
-fr/de are very vunrable to cr/bs
In order to have an effective attacking and/or defending fleet you would need to build all ship type.
Large co/fi fleets could not be used on their own because de/fr kill them easily. Large cr/bs fleet
could not be used on their own because co/fi can kill them easily and being unable to fight back.
Note that this is purely an idea for the structure of classes to prevent massive favouritism of one ship
type - ie you need a diverse fleet. Other tactical ideas which I may discuss in the future involve
different races being specialised in different areas and restrictions added and other things.
Oh and please don't comment on any bad spelling and/or grammer. I have fast typed this and I am only
human