Ressurrection starts out weak earlier in the game, but gets increasingly powerful.  If it ever gets around to fully developed 16-cap fleets, an Advent with ressurrection is basically handed the win since he can just promote any new cap he builds right to level 10 at no cost.

I think the best way to deal with this is to slightly reduce the radius of the MB.  Maybe 20-33%.  The TEC Overide Protocol actually has much smaller radius than MB.  Errr.. I think blowing up an expensive base should do more than ship abilities.  It will be much harder to hit that many targets with a smaller radius; right now the radius is huge.  MB actually has much longer reach than Marza's normal attacks.

unknOwnx: Smaller radius will destroy this ability!  The damage is not instant, ti is applied in waves which means that msot of the damage can be avoided.  By making the radius smaller, you pretty much make it possible to dodge the thing before it evan damages frigates to 50%.  The starbase has smaller radius BUT allt he damage is appleid at once, so there is now ay to get away. Once you are in the blast radius, you willt ake ALL the damage.  On top of this because it is applied at once, you will most likely have really low mitigation agaisnt it.

Nope.  It will make it harder to hit 100 ships at once.  Also TEC bases can't move.  Marza can charge in before let loose the MB.

Hell why not increase the radius so its harder to run from?  LOL.  Make the missiles homing like Starcraft?

Oh no my tactics will no longer work if the abilitie is slightly nerfed!  Oh no then my Mazra will be almost like a normal cap ship (even if still has 10 times more damage out put potential).

My point is that it is fine, so I am against any proposed change.  If people who are fine with missile barrage as is do not speak up, then it will sound like everyone thinks it is overpowered or something. 

When I fight someone like JJ I am lucky if I get off 1 missile barrage and it deals half it's damage to maybe 40% of the fleet.  Then I have to run it out of the gravity well before it dies.  So seriously if this get's nerfed, you can pretty much toss Marza out fo the game, I'll stick to Kols.

I think the Marza is fine as is. It is an amazing move and adds diversification to the game. I seem to recall that Vasari get moving Starbases. Hm, Advent Meteor Storm and Mass Disorientation is pretty dang good too. Advent BattleBall, anyone?

Another note, doing something about Missile Barrage is just another part of the game. If your opponent builds carriers, I certainly hope you start doing something about it besides building LRFs. Sure, TEC players are getting Marza first because it is good. That also means you know what they will be getting. If you know you are playing a Illuminator spammer, you also should know how to build your fleet.

You take different approaches to different situations and that is what makes the game fun and challenging. With a 240 sec cooldown and 150 antimatter cost, cancelling the channelling ability makes the Marza run for it's money since it will get focus fired a lot and die if you leave it in the grav well for too long. As people have mentioned before, you can move your ships out of range as soon as it goes off--I'm sure you can tell.

Not getting a colonizer as your first cap also means that you will not be expanding as fast as those who do. It also only has max of, I believe, 1 squad of strikecraft. In a game between people who know what they are doing, the Marza becomes a lot like a normal cap ship. Noobs will learn how to deal with it after the first few times around.

And if there's more than one significant battle going on simultaneously?  Does the player essentially need to ignore all other fronts simply to monitor a single enemy capital ship?

Of course I would. I find it the last abiltiy that truly scales!  Since Malice was destroyed!  For cap ships to be relevent in really end game fleets, their abilities must scale!  If you cap the number of thargets then it will not scale.  Hell I can just toss in 30 scouts into my fleet to eat the damage and use up target slots.

Good player needs to be able to keep tabs on mroe than 1 front.  In that game I was fighting in 3 places.  Yes I tend to ignore the less relevent fronts for the ones that need it the most.  Like I knew my starbase on the far side of my emprie would hold out for a while.  And I was chasing few rogue ships throught my empire, those need little less managing, but thend ot be the biggest pests. 

If the enemy had lvl 6 marza, there is no doubt I would make sure it is chased off the field before I can divert attention elsewhere.  But let's say I was vasari, I could stick a Kortul on the marza with disruptive strikes I know it would keep the missile barrage out pernametly. So there are tricks.

It is exactly because this is a Real Time Strategy game that you should pick the Marza first. As Vasari, you should pick the Death Egg first. As Advent, you should pick the Mothership first. This is what you should do because it is to your advantage.

You can choose to simply monitor the Marza if you would like. Preferably, just pay as much attention to it as you need to. It isn't hard to notice that a large number of your ships are suddenly blinking red all of a sudden. It also happens over 20 seconds. One MB is two clicks away (moving it into a good spot and then firing); one counter to that is also two clicks away.

I agree with Astax, if the Marza gets nerfed it will be tossed aside. Use a Marza against someone who knows how it works and it isn't as OP as you would think. Seriously, you should try it. It is frustrating, you are expecting awesome but it never happens. Which usually leads to you running away with it right afterwards. It takes effort to not get destroyed by it. In converse, it takes effort to keep it alive.

What would be kind of cool for the Marza is that MB is instant damage of 150 to everything and very low cooldown. Cast as many times as you have antimatter for. But seriously, it is fine as is.

Speaking of Novaliths...doesn't Auxiliary Goverment nerf that? Advent late game has the best fleet, btw. Shoot a culture cannon at any planet you are going to attack too and you erase their culture advantage there and you get benefits from your culture there.

Wiping out ANY number of ships with a single mouse click is deadly no matter what your strategy is. The only difference is you aren't wiping out ALL ships.

Considering the 3min cooldown and fatal nature of MB, killing more than a dozen ships is reaching exploit territory for a single use of one ability. How often do players use it on a full sized fleet, anyway? It's typically used more often to wipe out small skirmishes.

oh wow, 12 ships for 3 min

iirc lategame bomber/fighters(yes a carrier spam) can do this damage in a min a min1/2

or midgame illums