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To say something on topic- everyone forgets how game looked like before carriers buff. It was all about 1x egg/progen/akkan(marza). I dare to say there was a little less diversity than there is now. You can go 1 cap or 2 caps, carrier or colonizer. Sure caps are not balanced but they never were.

Indeed, the Sova is kind of the odd one out of the carrier capitalships. Both the Halcyon and Skinatra start out strong early game and thanks to AoE abilities can still scale well late game. The Sova is absolutely monstrous early game but gets weaker with every planet your enemy acquires (reduces the economic damage from embargo) and every frigate they build as none of its abilities scale. Granted this is a big problem with the TEC in general, but late game the Akkan and Marza and perhaps even the Dunov are the better capitalships, and I think this should be considered in any debate of whether to nerf the Sova.

The Sova's 'scaling' later game is not with Embargo but with Missle Platforms. It can pump out a few of those during even a small battle. Its a brawler.

Now go ahead and parade the numerous flaws with the above statement. Its ok, it is what it is.

The Revelation needs to be almost completely reworked.

What do you expect to happen in 2vs1?

Egg + Sentinels= Easily Sniped Carrier Caps. I can field an Egg+ half dozen sentinels in first 7-8 Minutes easy and that crew eats Carrier's for Breakfast. I point that out in argument in favor of buffing other caps rather than nerfing Carriers. The problem is not that they are OP, it's that only 1 of the 3 Races has a viable counter to an early game cap rush. This would be easily corrected with buffs not nerfs.

From a balance perspective all games have to make a choice. Most games balance weak, then medium and then strong units against each other in a chronological progression of the game. SINS made the choice that some of the most powerful ships (Caps) could be available from the very start of the game. Because of this choice, there should be a balance where no 1 Cap is supremely powerful over another, each should have a reasonably attainable early game counter such as what I outlined above with Egg+Flak. Granted, that one grouping doesn't have to be able to kill any other Cap in fact I can think of easy early game Cap+Frig combos that can kill an Egg+Flak. The point is that for every strategy, their should be a counter. Then the game truly becomes one of skill and not spam. Just my opinion, not everyone will agree, but it is what it is.

Boost battleship caps, they are underpowered and dont scale properly.

Lvl 10 battleship like Kol or they counterparts are lame at best. Sure, they can do trick or two, but they lack the fleet killing power. 

Radiance used to have it, you could sink enemy fleet with well placed radiance and malice, now all the fincess is gone. All that matters is raw power.

Carriers are good because no antimatter, can keep them away from combat and have some antifighter or other useful tactical things like repair or economy jew.

All battleships fleet killing abilities are all but nerffed, kol is remotely useful as a glorified flak frigate against advent, but vasari bombers dont even care about the flak.

The only remotly useful combat cap is Marza, in my days i used to marzabait people with 3 marzas left right and middle. It is really all that combat cap shuld be, killing power against planets, a skill that can resolve battles in your favor if done right.

Most of the times, espesialy later on, caps are not worth the cost. I am bit eccentric player, because i can actually make some form of cap fleet viable, against semi retarded players... But if i really wanted to play serious, had good player against me and not for fun, 3 caps would be the absolute limit. After that it would be purely fleet spam and in your face rush.

Caps need love, it would be better if capital ships would be the factor that raises the fleet cap. Ever cap ship gives you 150 fleet cap for normal fleet. So you cant reach maximum fleet without 16 caps.

well, caps are the command ships, only natural to make them fleet flags...

Also, boosted caps and the fleet hole will mean that you cant just trow eco at peoples and turn the game in spamm fest.

The skill which handles the fleet now matters more than how much money you trow at enemy.

I'm generally on the side that the non-carrier capital ships are too weak, rather than the carriers are too strong.  All you'd need to do to kill carrier supremacy is make the other capital ship classes faster.  If battleships were faster than carriers, then carriers could not kite against them.  This wouldn't just help with chasing down kiting enemies, but also escaping risky situations.  In order to be useful, non-carrier capital ships need to be able to get into the thick of battle, and if they want to survive to fight another day they need to be able to quickly withdraw as well.  More speed would give the other capital ships more leeway to be useful without actually increasing their power.

There's certainly nothing wrong with giving a modest boost to battleships for damage and support capital ships for antimatter.  They certainly could use it, and there's definitely leeway to buff them without making them overshadow frigates.  However, the problem with the other capital ships is more fundamental than damage or hull characteristics.  They simply don't have the mobility to be useful without getting themselves killed, unlike the carrier which can play a very conservative and defensive kiting game while still putting all its relevant features to use.

This would be the overall change I'd be rooting for:

Battleships: move speed 600 (from 525), +33% damage
Support Caps:  move speed 575 (from 525), +33% antimatter/regeneration
Marza/Vulkoras:  move speed 550 (from 525), +33% damage
Revelation:  move speed 550 (from 525), +33% antimatter/regeneration
Colony Caps:  550 (from 525)
Carrier Caps:  525 (no change)

That sounds like a good start, though I'd doubt increasing the speed of the Revelation would result in anyone building Revelations.  That particular capital ship needs to be almost completely reworked.

Late game isn't about capital ships, its about lag, and any seasoned mp vet knows that.  whoever has the best rig to survive the imminent lag fest is destined to come out the victor, because they can just clearly micro infinitely better then the next guy with a worse computer.  Case closed as far as I see it (coming from a guy with a mid ranged system).

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Yeah, abilities themselves need tweaking.  But as for the general changes, I'm perfectly fine with that.