Make it fair? You do realize FC is meant to be the most powerful face to face fighting class, its got a whole fleet to command... Tts only useful in the first fight, after that, if it dies it cannot fight again until it can recapture more wild slaves, that's quite a big thing to consider you know, the fact that the class can only properly fight one time, while everyone else can just hop back into their ship and go at it again.
DPS wise FC is not and nor is close to the top anyway nor is it the best in the pvp and its by far one of the worst classes to pvb with. Lets put a bit of maths into this, shall we? Each bigger does 11.5-14k dps 12.75k dps average. (That is only for a short burst until it runs out of elec and of course that is only if ALL the 3 pulses hit). The most end game FC has 5 of these so 12.75k*5 = 63.75k. Then the FC has his own T20 slaves which at very end game add 16.6k dps (Whose elec also runs out). 63.75+16.6*2= 97.07k dps for the most high end FC. This is all with the damage aura of course.

Here we have the most end game FC doing 97k dps. Lets take another class for instance, a sniper. Most end game sniper will have over 200k dps and have more than 300k shields with ranges that.. well exceed that of the FC... some even exceed bases...
My point is, you have one sniper that does more than double the dps that of FC, can use afterburners to get away from the FC and can kill it over long range in mere seconds.

But yes, the FC can use his amp... but.. wait.. can't the sniper just use a couple of adv blockers, pwi and then some tweaks to increase his dps? Yes it will cost the sniper like 30mil of tweaks but.. wait now the FC is basically useless, the FC has to go cap more biggers, repair himself and his slaves which is already about 100m. Oh but if he uses fighters, such as Lice that's over a bill already. I mean 500m per lice who are one shot even with the most simple of the weapons for the sniper.

So yes, lets make it fair, lets leave the class that looses less, is less annoying to play, and is far more useful in pvp and runs with the highest dps in game and lets focus on those Fleet Commanders who dare to stand up to the original Shm+Sniper duo, who dare be what they were originally intended to be and lets nerf them because my ShM cant outheal my stationary prawn with the space bar pressed in that I mc while he uses his amp. Genious.

While I do agree that the FC class needs a rebalance but only where the overall DPS output/power of the class remains the same. What I mean is, that the power of Biggers in comparison to the power of RC20 slaves is not where it should be. Biggers compose around 65% of the FC's current DPS and are just as tanky. I recommend shifting that in favor of the RC20 slaves. Reduce the wildslave bonuses from 3% to 2% and increase combat slave bonuses to 2.5% from 1.5%.

So I recently built a darkstream to replace the phantomstream on my travel ship, and was surprised to discover that darkstream gives off four times more vis than phantomstream does. it seems a little strange that i'm easier to see when i have darkstream equipped, especially since darkstream has -5% more visibility than phantomstream. I was just wondering, was this overlooked? Or is that how the items are supposed to function? Thanks for yr time blue

Perilous Trader Controlbot looks weak compared to Even More Ultimate Trader Controlbot or Superior Speedy Trader Controlbot.

I meant to put in a variety of trader controlbots, but didn't get around to it yet. What sort of attributes do you guys value in a trader controlbot?

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