I wish this thread was slightly more serious...

I hope I am making the right assumption that the Missile barrage ability is now destroying ships extremely quickly (10 - 15s is quick in this slow paced game) without the need of other supporting ability. (Namely, it outclasses most of the other Lv6 abilities)

The logic observed backing the Marza's unmatched power is that the TEC fleet overall is much weeker. Therefore, a unit with an uber ability that can be used alone without synergy is needed. This does not come along as the best method of balancing. 

Take RA as an example, before 1.1 some claimed that Vasari are weak(especially economically) that the unending tide of dark fleet is to balance the game.  That kind of justification is similar to the current Marza case.  I personally do not think Vasari needed RA to balance them out but RA really tipped the favor far too much into the player once it was researched. Same goes for Missile barrage, the difference of having it and not having it has such an instant and immense difference. The changes in 1.1 regarding RA, distortion field and repulsion are all aimed at reducing this kind of effect.

If the argument that the TEC itself is too weak is valid, it should be balanced by something else instead of an uber Lv6 Marza. The TEC is supposed to outbuild the other races by gathering resources faster ,building stuff more cost effectively and faster. Buff should be made to these economical advantages so that they can compete.

Of course, I am basing my reasoning on the assumption that Missile Barrage is far more powerful than other Lv6 ability used alone and Marza as a ship itself becomes an OP unit once reaching LV6. 

Since there are so many existing counters to the Marza spam, since getting multiple Marza's to level 6 is not a given, and since the Marza spam would be very vulnerable to strikecraft which make up a healty portion of most fleets, I can not see any reason to nerf thsi ability.  It may be more powerful than some of the other level 6 abilities, but this seems to only be the case if you ignore it and fail to counter it.  There is no way to make all cap ship abilities equal at every level, and what would be the merit of doing so anyway?  Diversity is fun.  Think how great Halle Berry looks.

The most unfair thing is to treat unequals equally.

hahaha!  Awesome analogy!

That said, the Marza should probably max out at about 20 (or something) ships it can hit with this ability.  Even with counters in play, your fleet can get dinged up pretty bad from just the first couple waves of damage before the shield mitigation scales up, tipping the tide against your fleet.  And I'm just talking about 1 Marza.  If a game goes on so long, and the other guy gets more than 2 at level 6, you are in serious trouble because it is very hard to counter multiples, and even if you kill a couple, you can count on taking a ton of damage in the meantime.

Marzas backed by enough Hoshikos can be hard to kill, and if the enemy has a fleet supporting his Marzas, he doesn't even need to hit you with the full barrage, just enough of it to tip the balance heavily in his favor by damaging all your ships.  I would almost prefer 3 level 6 Marzas by themselves than 1 level 6 Marza backed by a fleet.

The thing is, if enemy is so ignorant that he lets you ff for building 3 marza and getting them to lvl 6 - h deservs all that is coming his way.

its like letting people tech for RA or percevasive eco...

who ever think that that ability is not OP is either ignorant, retarded or biased

2 Halle Berry's don't run around killing 80 Kodiaks.  They just look good and act.

That's besides the point. People can be ignorant in thousands of creative ways and it doesn't have to involve a Marza.

The point is that Missile Barrage is so grossly overpowered it makes all other TEC caps obsolete.

Kol isn't obsolete.  You can use its Flak ability to counter the bombers trying to kill your Marza.

And Ender Wiggins was 11 when he destroyed the Buggers.  I don't want to see him in a bikini though.  Put a Marza in a bikini and it will still barrage your fleet to death.  Wait, what are we talking about again?

It doesent make the rest of the TEC caps more obsoleat than they allredy were, i used marza before missile barrage were fixed, because it can deal 6dps sustained + 21dps AoE damage on top of its own damage.

Thats like having nanites on the whole fleet. Takes some lvling but its still by far most useful cap TEC got even without the Barrage. Barrage is just cherry on the top.

What i am saying here is that we need make other caps more useful. The caps, majority of them are allredy underpowered to the point, selecting one over fleet may cause you lose ridiculosly.

The kol's flak burst is deadly, but dont rely on autocast it fires the moment any strike craft come into range. micro this ability to bring out its potential

The Kol Flak ability is a matter of scale, it hits all strikecraft in its radius.  If there are tons of strikecraft and if they fly directly over the Kol as you activate it, you can do tremendous damage, giving your other anti-strikecraft ships a big edge.  A couple of well timed Kol Flak bursts can almost wipe out the enemy strikecraft. 

If there are not many strikecraft or if they are all over the place and you can't hit a big cluster of them, then you'll wish you just had more flak frigates, or more strikecraft of your own.  In practice, you don't get the Kol to fight strikecraft, but it is a handy ability to have if you happen to have a Kol in play.