Hey all, I'm not sure if this has been brought up to our attention before, but I personally think that FO has some problems with balancing.

Personally, I think that battleships are severely underpowered yet costly to build. It is much more efficient to simply mass-produce cruisers than to build a single battleship. Hell, for the Dominion, you can just build infinite numbers of A-20 Destroyers and win a game!

To put this into perspective, Think of a battle scenario between a V-20 Battleship and 4 A-20 Destroyers. The A-20s definitely win. If you have 4 shipyards, It would take mere seconds to build 4 A-20 Destroyers, whereas it would take forever to build even a single V-20.

To solve this issue, I thought of 2 ways.
1) Make Battleships much more powerful than they are now.
2) Or.. more interestingly, have Battleships with multi-targeting capabilities. Battleships are huge, huge ships with lots of weapons emplacements and I think that it would be completely unrealistic if only 1 or 2 weapons are in use in any sort of battle. Giving multi-targetting capabilities would not only be a lot more realistic, but it will also give a standing chance against smaller ships with larger numbers.