Vasari = 5, TEC = 2, Advent = 1

but i dont see much difference in the ability to kill them. ALL bombers are difficult to kill. I think a major range increase in flak would help with that, but it has potential abuse in the non-SC area.

Changing the accuarcy for flax vs bombers is the first step i'd take. You will get a round about way of increasing damage to just bombers.

phase missiles are a subject of hot debate right now.

at the risk of a thread de-rail, what if all flak were given an ability? something that specifically targeted bombers?

say it shoots all weapons at once in a burst and makes the flak unable to fire for a couple seconds? Because of the burst nature, it might have a longer range, but it should have damage modifiers that make it only viable vs bombers, fighters would have to be shot down the normal way. That way you have to make a trade off: use the flak as anti-bomber or anti-fighter. Or if you micro the hell out of it, you might take out one and then the other.

Sounds like a plan.

eh, I dont know. I am wary of changing damage % that much, especially on strikecraft after all the re-balancing thats been done to tone them down, make them useful, tone them down again, make them effective again, blah blah blah. and you get crossovers with the damage type too.

Thats why some are suggesting round about ways of fixing this issue. We're trying to fix it without messing up everything else

Well, then you'd have to make some kind of counter ship. But you dont want it to affect any of the ships we already have... maybe something that goes right through the regular ships without being touched.... like some kind of "Ghost" ship...

Vasari have a huge advantage in construction time...their squads build faster than the other two races even though their individual SC take longer to build...that they are harder to kill and do more DPS just makes things worse...

Fixing the construction times is an obvious tweak, but one easily overlooked (probably because most people don't know about)...

There is a mod that increases the number of SC per squadron from 3 to 4 for Vasari bombers and 4 to 5 for Vasari fighters...DPS per squadron is still the same, and hit points are roughly the same per squadron as well...from my experience, these changes make Vasari SC more on par with the other two factions...it is these types of changes I'd rather see than adjusting the DPS per squadron as PMs are already a bitch to balance...