Is there a poll option for these threads? A method to create a general consensus.

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There's been a lot of debate about several imbalances in the game right now and due to the contested nature of the topic it's very hard to form a general concensus about the balance.

 

Namely:

-Capital Ship balance, should they have better survivalibilty and some type Flak capability? (Starbases included) 

-Flak balance, should Flak Frigates continue to be useless? should Flak receive some sort of buff?

-Light Carrier/Strike Craft balance that currently dominates the metagame. Should Strike Craft be instantly replacable and Carrier's continue to have very high shields and hull points compared to a melee heavy crusier? 

 

I'm under the main impression a lot of people generally agree with the concerns expressed above, but in threads usually 1 or 2 people tend to disagree and argue for the status quo often by making loud noises and red herring thus distorting the view of the general concensus to the developers. Demagoguery on both sides is clouding this issue and I feel the developers at IronClad deserve to see an honest popular poll on these very crucial issues. 

Thus, in order to get some accurate info on the majority of people's opinions there should be a poll option. Is this availiable?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

There is no poll option. Your questions are also worded in a way that basically says, "You are either with me, or you are stupid."

 

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Not at all, if the general concensus of the SINs community believe these mentioned issues are completely fine as it is, then I'd be proven wrong.

I have a strong feeling that a large part of the community does believe there are balance issues with capital ship survivalibility and Carrier/Strike Craft spam. 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Capital ships do not need more survivability, they just need to have it scaled a bit differently.  They do not need flak because capships already have anti strikecraft abilities.

Flak needs to be buffed and allowed secondary role.

And carriers need lot of HP/shields or they wont be used.  If change is done it sohuld be to their speed.   Changing the rate of craft replenishment is not necassary if flak is buffed.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Fair enough, eh well Carrier's having more HP than a Kiodiak is still wrong, only a slight 15% nerf to shields and hp would be enough! 

All capships do not have Anti-SC, only usually 1 can reliably hurt SC and 1 other with a marginally useful ability. I'm advocating for a "weak" Flak on most cap ships maybe equalivant to 1-2 Flak Frigates each and let the Akkan, etc ship be equal to 4-5 Flak Flak Frigates. 

Let capships benefit more from the hull and armor upgrades. I think many people believe cap ships simply lose to spam, when they themselves are not spammable.