Well, the pod isnīt the only major change here, from a usual set of stats (atleast rnd 40-41, of which Iīm basing my experience on).
Iīm generally keen on the idea, especially that all races are sharing the same pod class - one could infact add two pods, with the same theme, I.e FR/BS pods on all.
It would most likely bring a lot more variation in the attack fleets.
I need to adress some of the ships tho and the rationale behind it:
Zik/etd - not having a Fi/Co ship targeting Fr, did you consider the early game disadvandtage of not being able to defend against pods as fast as other races, i.e later hulls and tt research to topple it?, and if you did what did you compensate with ? - canīt seem to read that out of the stats.
A thumbs up is the fact that every single race got a T1 ships against all classes, that balances a lot compared to now, and encourages one to make a well balaced attack fleet spanning 4-5 ship types - making attacking in teams and such a more interesting affair.
I'm not completely sure about the high dmg,emp res etc. they seem to favour Xan a bit, but I need to see some numbers b4 cometing on that.
These stats are imo not bad
- and deff better than the current, whatever that means