I have to disagree with the need to buff light frigates. Carriers (even without the 1.09 bug) are a huge force, yes, but they cost an arm and a leg, and take up a lot of ship slots. The drawback to carriers is you don't have that same concrete force as any other kind of fleet.

If you're in a late game where the other person has huge amounts of carriers and lrf's, then yes, that's an obstacle, but also a shame on ur part for letting him/her get to that point.

Your forgetting flak, Purdyaw.

Flak kinda don't serve a role anymore.

Side stepped the point? Go check. 3 Bombers don't take out light frigs all that easily. Both fighters and bombers do 50% of their statistical damage against medium armor.

One of the key designs of the carrier is that they made the bombers and fighters weak against light frigates and flak. Also, light frigates are quicker than carriers, meaning they're the only unit besides bombers (carriers can carry fighters so using bombers is a risky tactic) that can chase down the carrier and actually destroy it. Thanks to the new buff to anti-heavy damage against heavy armor, this tactic now works better than before.

Well I didn't notice the anti heavy damage change, so that is good enough, I suppose... considering they are tier 0 ships.

I thought that might come up, and the best way to fix that would be to increase survivability between Light frigates and LRMS... keeping LRMS the counter, but not one that immediately annihilates it... just like Light Frigates don't immediately annihilate Carriers.

Anyways, here are the steps.

1: Increase Light Frigate Shield and Hull Capacity and Regeneration by 25%.
2: Increase Anti-Heavy, Composite, Capital and Capital Ability damage VS Medium from 100% to 125%.
These two steps keep Anti-Heavy, Composite, Capital and Capital Ability VS medium armor effectively the same. Increase Durability by 25%, increase damage taken by these types by 25%. Understanding the math is key, though. If these had been previously at 200%, we would want to increase it to 250%... because 50% is 25% of 200%.... a 25% increase, killing Light frigates 25% faster... because they have 25% more Hit Points.
I was first thinking of increase Anti-Medium damage type VS Medium armor from 150% to 175%... making Light Frigates still last 8% longer than before, 25% longer versus strike craft and Flak and the same as before against everything else... but then I realized one thing. LRMS have the highest DPS per fleet count amount. More than Heavy Cruisers. Heavy cruisers are better because of Composite... but even after that all LRMS do more DPS per fleet amount. It's the endurance that matters for Heavy Cruisers.

For example. On basic numbers, the LRMS does 11 DPS and costs 4 fleet, which is 2.75DPS per Fleet point. The kodiak heavy cruiser does 18 DPS with 10 fleet which is 1.8 DPS per fleet. After considering damage type, on average LRMS do 88% of their damage. Composite on average does 116% of it's own damage type. This put LRMs on average at 2.42 DPS/Fleet and Heavy Cruisers at about 2.09DPS/Fleet. What tips it for Heavy cruisers is the superior durability... but LRMs still being over Heavy cruisers in DPS/fleet (atleast in TEC) means that perhaps LRMs just are Too-Good of a counter to what they counter.

So leaving Anti-Medium damage at 150% means that LRMS will still kill Light frigates quick enough amount of time, but it also means that LRMs simply got nerfed against what they're supposed to counter. I would propose this final last step.

3: Decrease Anti-Heavy damage VS Light armor from 75% to 50%.

Is that fair?

Light frigates still die fastest to LRMS.... LRMS gain a 33% survivability bonus against Light Frigates... So do Siege Frigates, Scouts, Bombers and Trade Frigates, but oh well.

I happy with the LF/Carrier balance. It works.