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Air balance is quite ok IMO, I agree that air shouldn't be the end-of-all option, rather the mean to take out strategic targets, scout, support, etc. I still remember an old version where rushing to brawlers was the-end-of-all strategy and it wasn't fun. I probably don't need to bitch about the scou...

KlavoHunter wrote: By the way. Give Cruisers back their depth charges.

He did as stated some pages back.

Naval changes sound really good, especially that sub can fire only in front.

I support keeping nanotowers with some buildtime decrease as well.

"Support Ship" revert to standard anti-air ship

Ah, finally. Which ships do now have anti-sub capabilities beside destroyers?

I'd like to see more spiders in the game, can't you introduce the spider lab? :-) Bah, the only reasonable change would be to change karganeth's model into something spider-looking, as it looks really stupid clibing vertical hills. But that would probably be much work for a visual effect. Anyhow, m...

At any rate, I know that Caydr probably isn't going to pay attention to any of this

Hope you are right. Last thing we need is boosting L3 imo.

I'm really looking forwards to the improvements on the L3 mechs, since I love them so dearly. My first suggestion would be to reduce annihilator and bertha damage modifiers from 3x to at least 2x, since this would make some of the larger robots handy in sieging hardened defenses. As it is right now...

Dragon45 wrote:Depth Charges should be on cruisers. Period.

Subs and depth charge ranges should be roughly similar; that way, subs arent crippled but there is a way to counter them should the need arise.

I've been saying this for the whole time. Subs should have a slight range advantage though.

Well guardians were not exactly dirt-cheap either the last time I checked....

... TEST POST WIN Guardians PWN lvl1 ships like there is no tommorow Guardians being compared to LLTs is as stupid as Dstroyers being compared to PW You need l2 ships to kill a guardian??? you do realise the only t2 ships worth getting are the messenger thingeys (maybe LRPC and AA ships in certain ...

Cadyr, i really don't like the gaurdian dubbleing as a coastal defence gun. It's just that in some maps where water is always present, pepole build guardians for gaining ground (guardian pushing) and can acidently fend off any level 1 ship attacks thanks to the 3x damage the guardian does. I'd rath...

I still think that those cruiser/AA ship changes are a bad idea.

That naval engineer ship thing sounds good though.

AA ships are fine and well used as they are now. Cruisers may be unbalanced, but cutting its depthcharge completely and attaching it to AA ship is just stupid IMO. Cruiser has always been some kind of all-purpouse ship. If it needs a nerf fine, but dont change its role completely. So if you get atta...

FireCrack wrote:If cruisers dont have their ASW opttion, what on earth are thy good for?

I agree, leave cruisers alone, they were fine IMO.

Short range bombardment ships were always quite useless, IMO they should be changed into close combat laser ships or something like that. Or at least get accuracy&HP boost. Minelayers are also never used now as I stated before, but everyone prefers arguing about units that are perfectly OK. And ...

Nerfing hurricanes AA capability should be enough IMO instead of completely removing it.

I like the reaper/goliath changes though.

Talking about redundant units, I can't remember the last time I saw mines used. I like minefields well enough, but right now its just not efficent to build them. They need to be changed somehow, prerhaps buildtime, cloaking cost decrease or something like that?

yes, i understand that the arguing over comms has (mostly) ended... however, i have an idea. how about the comm has a faster raising laser, double xpgain rate (as Caydr said, from the nerfed so its really 50x slower), normal LLT power in its laser, and the DGUN has range of HLT. HOWEVER! the D-gun ...

Dragon's maw and claw are popup short range defense turrets that look like dragon's teeth when closed. Nice to see them back, just hope they will be properly balanced.

Plasma guns damage modifier vs. ships seems a good idea as well.

Banisher is far from overpowered IMO, it is rarely used as it is now.