Corvettes from my point of view seem like cheap (emphasis on CHEAP) attrition units.. AKA pure cannon fodder. To suicide themselves harassing, and disabling enemy cap ships, and other key units while you bring in the big guns to bear on them, and finish them off.

Yea voice acting needs work that ill agree on. "the bigger they are the more annoying i sound"

Before we call for a complete scrap, is there any way we can think of to salvage their role as anti-titan support? I think we need to find some way to give these ships an ability that would make titans (and possibly SBs) nervous when they're in numbers with a fleet, but have opposing frigates pass them off as a nuisance.

Perhaps a modification of what lbgloan said? Instead of making them a new frigate, perhaps turn them into a form of strikecraft? Nerf their damage output, slap on a cripple ability, and possibly good to go.

Of course this does mean losing my minesheep...

I'm not sold on making the larger ships unable to harm the smaller ships as much and here is why. Big ships have big guns, if you hit a small ship with a big weapon, that ship should go 'Poof!' in a faster fashion than the standard frigate. From a balance standpoint is just seems odd, for lack of a better word.

I would rather see abilities that stack, some better survivability. Heck, can we give them research like 'Evasive Maneuvers' that will help them decrease 'chance to hit' from enemy weapons? Make them Electronic Warfare scouts with similar stats, maybe a bit weaker.

We can always go the route of making a Corvette class, next to the Frigate and Cruiser classes and give some more 'types' of Corvettes. Eggshells with Hammers ... turtle shells with EMP abilities, etc etc. Right now they are just balanced too poorly. They are most definitely salvageable in my mind without making them a one off counter to one type of unit.

I agree that their pathing is terrible (they just slam into their target). And PLEASE let me turn off ship responses! Or at least add some variations.

With the way that Sins is constructed if you change the damage certain weapon types do (i.e. flak for example) then it is largely an across the board change and is hard to balance as suddenly other items no longer work as intended. If you increase with research the HP, Shields, restore rates, etc of the Corvettes then they will be come more survivable. Increase their abilities, give them things like evasiveness and you do no disrupt other game play balances based on weapon type and armor.

For Corvettes, can we just give them a sound effect instead of a voice track? Would that solve the problem?

Well at last. Somone finially got the message.

Seriously as an anti-titan counter they're probably going to be medicore. But with their damage and armour types they should be feindishlly effective at drawing anti-fighter weaponry onto themselves and off the fighters, as well as making their DPS really nasty on LRM's. They strike me as being intended to deal with early game LRM mass issues. PLus they're solid resistance to capital ships and Bombers should enshure that they make bomber spamming carrier capitals much less effective.

That said i do see 2 issues with them.

1. Virtually everything, (with one or two exceptions), has at least a couple of points of armour. Given the prior minimum HP values thats another 50-100 Hull right there. Meaning the diffrance between a corvette and even a light frigate is much greater than it first appears.

2. They have such low total HP's before migations i suspect their sheild migation isn't maxing out before they die, or if it is, only just before they die. That represents a huge effective P cut compared to a more normal ship.

I'd reccomend bringing them upto about 350Hull and 250 Sheilds, plus dropping several points of armour onto them. Make them double cost and supply and that should fix up most of their issues IMHO.

I found them okay for drawing fire, as the main purpose i used them for while the fleet was attacking targets.

Besides that watching them all bounce off starbases as they rammed them made me think they were ramships and had no "ranged" weapons at all. Their flight paths need to be fixed so they don't ram their targets, unless they can do extra damage that way (possible boarding crew?)

plus I used to to pad out the fleet supply...