that could be.  Again I don't know where it comes from (just assumed that an ability that "awesome" would have come from the starbase), just that it is a Vasari ability and it is way too overpowered!

It was 30 hull/second in the last game I played.

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I agree that five minutes is excessive, but I think the problem may be that it doesn't appear to work like a normal ability-that is, it seems to always be on, as opposed to casting and having a cooldown time.  Perhaps it needs an antimatter cost and the Vasari missile platforms need an antimatter pool for it to work that way-if so, that should be done ASAP, as without it, changing the duration isn't going to make a difference.

This is just a preliminary glance, though-I haven't tested it very thoroughly yet, so I could be wrong.  Either way, it would seem like an ideal solution, although the duration does need to be lowered.

EDIT: I've just now realized that both myself and the person I was quoting are mistaken-it's not three minutes, it's 300 seconds...which is 5 minutes.  Corrected my post.

So after more extensive testing the ability doesn't seem to match the ingame description.  It's something like a 5 second duration, but it takes effect whenever the weapon hits...which basically means it almost never isn't active (at least on the target in question).

I'm thinking it definitely needs to be an activated ability with a cooldown.  May need a max number of targets as well, more so than the current 1.  I'm not certain all targets within a given range would work, due to how spammable platforms are (low tactical slots cost).  Doesn't seem as though it needs antimatter or an antimatter cost to do that though, based on TEC platform abilities.

Advent's shields granted from hangar defense don't stack.  Already checked.  It gives ~750 shields where none existed (actually on second thought that might have been with shield bonuses researched), and thereby shield mitigation, which is obviously the primary point, but the shields don't stack.

Vasari hangar defense is arguably the best, IMO, as it can disable enemy strikecraft for ~45 seconds at a time.

I haven't experimented sufficiently with TEC's hangar flak upgrades to determine how worthwhile they are.

TEC do get two abilities for their turrets.

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I think you may be missing the point.

My original assumption based on looking at the ability was that it was overpowered.  Now that I have tested the ability, I see that it is perhaps slightly underpowered (only slightly because if you want it that badly you have 35 tactical slots that you can spam up with 35 missile platforms), where the logical solution, that of having it affect all targets in range, would make it massively overpowered.

I don't understand how making it have a maximum number of targets in range and giving it a cooldown would make it worse.  It would in fact make it better under the circumstances where you don't spam the platforms.  Right now it's just going to shut down the regen of the one ship it's firing at until that ship is dead.

Considering that in my testing the duration is ~5s, at present spam is the only way for it to really help.  It is possible though unlikely that something is interfering with the duration (perhaps damage) and that it is in fact a 300 second duration, as displayed.  If so, I'm confused.

Right.

Right.

I was looking at it from the perspective that you had missed my proposed change, and more to the point that my proposed change would actually be beneficial to it.