But see, there's the rub so to speak. Most of the support cruisers are not set as defense or offense strictly. The Guardian dispurses damage with Shield Projection but then breaks up enemy formations with repulsion so its really a hybrid (although I will argue later its more of a pure defense support cruiser). The Hoshiko repairs and disables, The Cielo Regen's Shields and directs focus fire, The Overseer Repairs and slows incoming fleets. I would say the Subvertor is really the only true single purpose cruiser as its abilities are purely offense based with no effect on the friendly fleet.

The first thing to decide is should the Domina be a hybrid or a pure offense or defense support cruiser. I would make the argument that the Guardian is in fact a pure defensive support cruiser as it is designed to absorb and prevent damage mainly. As such I would argue that the Domina should be a pure offensive support cruiser. So my ideas for an Advent "lore authentic" Offensive Support Cruiser and its abilities would be something like as follows:

Domina Cruiser:

Zealous Rage-

Targets Friendly Frigates, Cruisers & Capital Ships. Limit 5 Targets. Cannot Target Self.

AM Cost- 80, Cool Down 70, Duration 30.

"The Rage of the Unity is channeled into the nearby fleet driving the crews and the ships to the maximum of their abilities"

Increase Weapon Damage 10 %, Acceleration and Max Speed 10%, Armor +2.

Invoke Terror-

Targets Single, Enemy Frigates & Cruisers

AM Cost 80, Cool Down 5, Duration 20.

"The Minds of the enemy are flooded with images of fear and terror inducing them to stop all attacks and flee."

Disables Weapons, Abilities and Passive Regeneration. Boosts Max Speed & Acceleration 50%. (I like the secondary effect as it is basically along the lines of running away as FAST AS POSSIBLE but I am open to removing it from a balance standpoint.)

Im open to suggestions to change these but they were my first crack at some offensive support abilities that had the right feel of the Advent. Obviously I would be open to adjusting exact figures as balance requires as well.

A valid concern for sure. I had an idea for a repair ability on the Domina that is more inline with the Advent "Fleet-wide" support paradigm as well.

Tranquility Aura

Targets all Friendly Ships & Structures within the radius. AM Cost 150, Cooldown 90, Duration 60. Range 6500.

"The surety of the Unity's cause floods the minds of all friendly ships in the area causing the crews to operate more efficiently."

5 Hull Repair/Sec. May stack 3x. Only Applies to the ships within the radius at the time of activation but ships that were in range and move out of range continue the effect.

I would keep this as a level 6 re-searchable ability so that it is a high cost high reward type of skill.

Auto-cast needs to be fixed to allow less micro and a more enjoyable game:

Autocast: Does not respond fast enough:

E.g Auto-Casting Shield Projection is delayed after another projection ends.

I can understand why projections don't stack and waste anti-matter running simultaneously but the next projection should kick in towards the end of the active one.

THERE IS NO INFORMATION IN THE MANUEL THAT SAYS IF U MOVE GUARDIANS WHEN THERE SHIELD PROJECTING THEY CANCEL THEM DOING SO.

With the lack of information on this matter iam pretty sure there some newbies out there who still build guardians in fleets and move them around during projection then only to realize it does next to nothing as a support cruiser.

Another thing the Devs should have done is delete the domina and gave the iconus  a third ability: A self Hull Regen Ability: Self Perseverance (e.g a 15hp Regen)

It also doesnt give any direct information on shield projection, nor any other ship's power. All it says is: "The hull of the ship is weak, but the Guardian has an extremely powerfull shield generator, which can be projected outwards to protect nearby vessels." That gives you a rough idea of what it does, more details such as the durations, the effectiveness, whether it's channeled are all things that you have to read in details from within the game.

And we are talking about the Domina. Guardian is fine as is (although I'd kinda like repulse to do a bit of damage so that it's not solely a MM tool, but it's not necessary).

No feedback on my idea? It certainly makes Advent repair unique, I think.

Can 'stacks' even be programmed? I know of nothing in the game that stacks (to be fair, I don't know if the next sentence can be programmed either). And I was kinda thinking that the heal is proportional to the amount of shields stolen.

That's a pretty big range you have there, isn't it (I guess the current range is 5000, so I could be wrong)? And that kinda makes me think a bit too... I mean, you could take the current Domina heal, and increase the range to the point where it can heal any ship in the grav well and suddenly the 'needs to face target' and channeling doesnt matter. The Domina sits back with the carriers. Theres still the autocast issue, and then theres the issue with multiple Dominas repairing 1 ship, but it would be a start.

I went with the in-combat repair rate so that it affected big and little ships equally. Repairing 100 hp really helps a LF, but it hardly matters (unless you can keep doing it) to a capital. So, instead change their natural repair rate and they both benifit equally.

So, I guess my way would be:

Target- Single enemy frigate, cruiser, or captial ship.

Drain 10 Shield pts/Sec for 15 Secs. For every 25 pts drained, ships within 1500 range add +1 to their in-combat repair rate (Actually, I admit I have no idea how in-combat repair rate works so this could be completely wrong).

Yes, Marza has stack programming.

Not entirely sure which sentence you refer to but yes you can add a "musthaveshield" condition.

Hoshiko has a range of 3000 for Repair Drones. I made it slightly smaller to compensate for the AOE balance issue.

I see what you are saying but from a balance standpoint, no other repair ability in the game has that mechanic. My idea was to leverage the fleet support theme so often seen in Advent and to balance that with their Epic Shields which can already be recharged rather quickly with a pair of Progenitors.

I'm open to this sort of mechanic which probably feels more appropriate for true "Draining" type of ability.

I worry about game timing issue on this one.

All in all though, I think our discussion is on the verge of creating a very effective, needed and lore authentic ability that would go a LONG way toward Advent balancing.

True, but we can dream can't we

My meaning: I'm not sure you can program the repair rate to scale with the amount of shields drained, but seeing as how you said things can stack, I'm sure the repair rate could be a separate buff, and every 25 pts, a new buff is applied. This is starting to get complex

Good. That was my dastardly plan.

My question is: Does it still carry the 'disable immune' part of the original power?

I might just extract it from the rest of the mod to do an isolated test.

And ZombieRus5, I remember you had that idea a long time ago... yet:

I'm wondering what he meant, and since you say you cleared up the casting issue, I was wondering if you could take a stab at that quote? It sounds like they want to go in a different direction.

Synchronized single target abilities autocasting is fixed in my build of Rebellion. 

thank you thank you

Rebellion is going to be so cool. Thank you blair.