"The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads." image - Star Trek: Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

There has been "constructive criticism" on nearly all recent screenshots. It's a little overwhelming. Sometimes the screenshot is so beautiful and then the comments just puts a sour note on the experience. When one has so much input on nearly every ship depicted, I would recommend starting their own mod. That's my two cents. It's a little too much.

I hope it isn't taken out of context either. I myself have done the same thing with other games/mods. But then again my first language is English so it never came across so direct but eventually I decided to take all the good I found in that particular mod and change what I thought would make it better.

That's the best solution. Do it yourself bc the team already said most things are in place and the beta is to make sure everything is functioning as intended. It's not pre-alpha where they are taking "opinions" or contemplating complete overhauls.

Lastly comparing STO balancing with that of this game is extremely ridiculous. Apples and oranges. You can get ideas from other games but each game has a specific set of balancing that is unique to its engine design and can't just be grafted to another game.

I know something about every faction in last public release. I touched them, but what's more important, I fought them. Many times and in different ways.

But I believe that really good thing is that I haven't balanced your mod and so I'm not afraid of changing something. That way, I see issues that you don't and propose changes that you won't. Akira Battle Refit is one of them.

On the other hand, those may not be issues at all. I bear no responsibility and so I can say whatever I think and, may be, it will work. I don't need to know for certain. But there are things I know and slightly underpowered Akira is one of them.
I can't prove it, but it just feels so.

I doubt anyone will die from overtesting if you just try and see how it works.

True. But she's a late game asset and so must be a fairly good choice for her role. Her current role is a bralwer of the fleet. Sub-capital, which can hold enough punishment and still pack a punch. But it's not enough, as non-capital carrier Curry is dead by midgame. Turning Akira into 1 slot carrier could bring back fighters into game. Sometimes we can't afford additional Typhons...

Fast strikes just prove to be more effective, when combined with good support. Akira could be a good choice only if it provides squadrons as late game carrier with guns.

In testing it has been 100% verified that the Akira is the Federation's most powerful all-around cruiser. In a fleet to fleet engagement the Akira is second to no other cruiser. This has been tested so much that you could basically call it "overtesting". The Defiant is meant for a different type of combat. When not using abilities the Akira wipes out the Defiant. The Defiants mines level the playing field a bit in a one-on-one engagement. However, if a group of Akiras take on a group of Defiants, the Akiras will win with their abilities. The idea of the Akira having a 1-slot fighter bay has been considered and discarded as it would make the already extremely powerful Akira far too powerful.

Overtesting may result in overrepeating the answer.

So, here and there we see ships that are really, as you say, "far too powerfu". How this could have happened? If you not intended to rebalance them, why not to make ultra expensive Akira (which won't be deployed in large numbers anyway) a little bit more versatile, by adding 1 hangar slot?

P.S. Intrepid really sucks. Totally useless, unless you don't have enough research to build Lakotas. As support class of the fleet, she is dead, because: 1) Too small debuff 2) This debuff can't be stacked.

I believe I already answered why we won't be adding a hangar slot. As it stands, the Akira will beat almost any other cruiser one on one. Not sure why you want them stronger. Intrepid is extremely versatile in fleet battles with its ridiculous firing arcs, and extremely useful when the enemy has mines around.

Yeah. Ridiculous laser tag.

The akira will always win that duel because it has better firing arcs, the defiant is primarily fore arc damage dealing only. Its especially blatant for the akira in particular, even its torpedoes fire in side arcs, you would have to nerf its stats hard for other heavy cruisers to compete.

In 1v1 tests, and point blank fleet brawls, you want weapons in all 4 arcs firing the whole time, or you are leaving a ton DPS on the table. That makes balancing say the Klingon and the federation difficult, so many kdf ships are heavy fore firepower, and not much in any other directions. Feds are pretty balanced on all sides, which leads to their fleet having much higher DPS output. if you don't have ships that fire in at least 3 arcs, you want to avoid the point blank range battle ball.

I figured out the way to get around this imbalance back when i made the battle field refit addon last year, it came down to halving fed ship fire rate, doubling damage per shot, and adjusting something else to visually make it look like nothing had changed. A fed ship firing less often ends up being the same as a kdf ship that needs to turn for a few seconds to point its guns at something.

AFTcube?

This is where you're wrong, the Borg are a collective, and they have one combined AFT.

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Saber, Akira, and Steamrunner were featured quite heavily in fleet battle shots during the Dominion War. The only reason the Norway wasn't was because the studio model was either lost or corrupted. Just look at any fleet battle in DS9 and you'll see many Akiras, Steamrunners, and Sabers.