Excel II Special Problem

posted on July 22nd, 2010, 5:07 pm

The Sov's special is THAT limited?  Back in the day it was ALL ships inside the special's range!  I think it should be at least 5-6 ships to be balanced: I used to hate that ability but it wasn't overpowered considering how long feds have to tech and build to get Sovereigns.

Yes and IIRC it used to be considered OP, back in the days of 3.0.7 when I only played against AI. It is great against Borg ships or things that heavily depend on a limited attack arc.

I disagree with high-tech having to be superpowred just because feds have trouble teching. Risner actually techs up pretty fast now (compared to Mayson, who lost the build time reduction), and people actually play Risner now that she's more balanced with Mayson .
Defiants are the main reason for chassis 3 (I rarely build Sovereigns for any other purpose than the novelty of having Sovereigns) because they almost counter half the ships in the game (seriously they counter both short and long, and any ship with an anti-long range passive and any small sized ships and most things that need their weapons functioning to perform well.)

posted on July 22nd, 2010, 5:14 pm

against assim borg your defiants may suffer from lack of crew.

defiants are powerful, but pulse armed.

sovvies are awesome too. ultimately mixing them is wise as they both have many uses.