I've been playing SOASE for a while now and absolutly love it. My favorite faction is TEC and I always play as them but I have a slight problem with the heavy fallout ability of their seige firgate. Usually I only call in seige firgates after I have completely decimated all orbital resistance in the gravity well and plan to take over the planet after I get rid of the enemy conlony. However if I've reasarched Heavy Fallout I end up having to deal with the lower population growth rate which is why I always try to skip it on the research tree. After thinking about it I think I have come up with a modification to heavy fallout that will make it more useful and keep you from having to deal with your own radiation. I think Heavy fallout should be made a temporary ability like clustered warheads instead of a constant power and that it should also increase bombing damage for it's duration. This will make the ability perfect for when you are bombing a planet and know you are either going to have to pull out to save all your ships or are trying to do as much damage as possible before all your seige frigates get destoryed. If you know you won't be able to finish off a planet you can activate the ability and try to do as much damage as possible in the shortest amount of time. If you know you can finish off a planet you can just ignore it and keep launching regular nukes until the enemy colony is wiped out. I don't think it would be too hard for the developers to change this with a patch (If one ever comes out) and I think it would also add a bit more depth to TEC strategy.

P.S. I'm not completly sure if this post is in the right catagory