I think I understand slowing carriers down if we are talking regular Sins. But this change added to the build rate nerf in Entrenchment is puzzling. This double whammy will make carriers very unappealing except as a mobile hanger. They are slower than LRF now making the LF useless as it's counter.

I think the Mazra adjustments are inline with what the "Nerf the damn Mazra" thread has "wanted" It at least gives the opponent a more visible cue and time to react. You'd still have to pay attention to the battle and be zoomed in so I wonder if this adjustment will make anyone happy.

I'm a bit disappointed.

We may start to see a re-emergence of bombers as the dominant strikecraft with the new nerf, and I think that's what they are wanting at IC as well as having carriers offer up more of a support role. I think people will start building more bombers to stand up to the flak, which will hopefully prompt more fighters in defense. The other, more likely thing to happen, is for people to stop using carriers all together, in which case IC will have to buff them probably by cutting back on the price.

As for the Marza, if they're going to nerf it they're going to do it slowly. They want to retain it raw power but at the same time make it more manageable. People are still going to complain that its a one button win, but that patch will strip down the "Marza OP" arguement a little. I can't wait to see what kind of new graphic it has.

How exactly do you run the bailknight mod in multiplayer?

I tried installing and enabling it, but a received a checksum error when I tried to play against someone else (ie the game recognized that I had a mod running that other players didn't).

I wince. Nerf one way, buffing another is, in this case, a dread error I suspect - all that would do is ensure even bigger initial-launch swarms, while doing nothing for long term viability in a firefight. Given it's the initial-launch swarms that are infamous for the one-pass-kills of capital ships and similar, this is a bad idea... Carriers would stop being a support craft and start becoming an assassin fleet.

Er, I misphrased a little.

I realise this quite clearly - what I was suggesting is that this would be taking away any other utility, while emphasising their sniperiffic abilities... which is, y'know, probably the wrong direction.