Removing Hold Position for Corvettes is indeed a minor annoyance. Though you can still set their attack range to local area or move them away from the battle and have them fly back in when needed quite easily, since they are very fast.

Hold Position for strike craft is rather pointless anyway so I don't really see the complaint here. You can just dock them , which is basically the same thing as ordering them to stop. Hell, when they are docked they are even being repaired. Launching all strike craft at once can do a lot of damage when done at the right time.

So yeah, they should put back the Hold Position order for Corvettes. For strike craft, I don't think an order like that is a necessity.

Yet the micro you speak of is exactly what happens...

You should see what I do with advent corvettes vs a ragnarov .

Micromanagement of corvettes is what makes them such fun unit to use, imo.

I've seen many of these "megacorvette balls" that you speak of, and yes they are overpowered at the moment.

I have several ideas on how to balance this out while ADDING to the game.

Hmm not an oversight at all... the game had years of play and this was a viable bit of micro.

It had counters, like a kol flak burst or a halcyon TK push, as well as putting a group of fighters in similar formation.

This adds to the versatility of fighter/bomber control that was always quite fun.

Bombers were slow enough that this was a hard maneuver...

I'd say Z axis controls are more of an exploit...not even having an automatically mapped hotkey and all the loads of actual exploits... This just allows you to have finer control of strike craft.

Taking control away from the player in this regard doesn't make too much sense, considering the game now has corvettes to counter bombers...

Its overkill on the part of the developers.

Um, you can't make your strikecraft and corvetts hold position?  I can....

And I always loved my battle ball of strikecraft.... was so much fun tearing a hole through LRM spammers

The game has been full of "problems" since its inception...that a problem may not have been fixed over that time period doesn't change the fact that it is still a problem...

I'm not going to argue whether this should be in the game or not...what I do know is that the devs came out and said it was an intentional change to remove this option from SC...

Hmm but things never being intended, yet stay in the game and aren't fixed due to negligence is kinda rediculous.  This has found a place in the sins community, and frankly the developers could change their minds about it and find a way to ADD to the game, instead of subtract from the game.

They worry about more variables, yet they will have more balance in the game the more things they add.

Adding a huge amount to the amount of paths to victory, and then toning down the ones that are too dominant so that the diversity of strategy itself is a balance is important for sins.

An opponent counters one strategy, but hasn't scouted you fully and never saw your plan B strategy in the works...surprise!

These surprises will keep re-playability high for this game.

You can do this to some extent already in the game, but i'm talking about magnitudes of improvement, not just small fixes. 

The convenience of using the word intended is that the developers can change what is "intended" at a whim...

I'm providing feedback at how that whim isn't exactly welcome.

But

that is what the pros want them to be

they want a giant, gleefully satisfying ball of corvettes that chew through everything

Just make their abilities require no antimatter and give them weapons banks like the flack frigate and you're good to go.

Just give them a passive phase engines disabled ability?

I'm not talking about corvettes.

They are so fast anyways you can keep them in a relatively tight ball anyways...they should have to be moving or face a penalty that increases damage against them.

Fighters and bombers however are completely justified in having tight formations able to halt. 

Pros are concerned with keeping the game fun for the long term.

You might consider limiting the mobility of corvettes to owned gravity wells, so they can't be used to rush.

Or perhaps, the advent corvettes are the only ones that can warp in, and the other races corvettes are planetary defense only.

I'd like to see corvettes with no jump capability but have a carrier type craft that could spawn them in a hostile gravity well during assaults.  It would keep players from launching 500 corvette invasion forces and reduce lag in doing so.  It also would still allow complete freedom to defend your systems with corvettes.

If we could get a mine layer to drop corvettes like mines that would be perfect.