Why are Corvettes cool?  What makes them different than all the other units?  They debuff even the biggest of targets, like caps, SBs, and Titans (ships which are immune to most abilities)....

I look at Corvettes, and I think "The point of these units is their abilities, not their damage"...on that line of thought, I again advocate for a slight DPS nerf...they'll still be good against LRFs but not great against anything else...the point of building them in large numbers would (and should) be to debuff high value targets, not to inflict large amounts of damage....

I... how? Which corvettes?

I'm tempted to go with this as well...already tried it out through modding to see if I liked it...one limitation is the abilities, as that gets buggy on SC...

remove their shields and reduce their HP by half. They are fine as is, they just need to be easier to kill.

For reference:

Advent Loyalist/Rebel Corvette

• Cost: 100/10/5, 2 supply, 15 seconds to build
• 200 HP, 250 SP, .75 'very light' armor
• front bank Beam weapon- 40 dmg for 1.3 sec, 3000 range,  15 sec cd, 'composite' type
• rear bank Laser weapon- 25 dmg, 3500 range, 14 sec cd, 'composite' type
• side banks Point Defense- 23 dmg per bank, 3000 range, 12.5 sec cd, 'antilight' type

TEC Loyalist/Rebel Corvette

• Cost: 100/10/5, 2 supply, 15 seconds to build
• 350 HP, 130 SP, 1.0 'very light' armor
• front bank Laser weapon- 30 dmg, 3000 range,  12.5 sec cd, 'composite' type
• rear bank Missile weapon- 25.5 dmg, 3500 range, 15 sec cd, 'composite' type
• side banks Autocannon- 15.5 dmg per bank, 3000 range, 10 sec cd, 'antilight' type

Vasari Loyalist/Rebel Corvette

• Cost: 140/15/10, 3 supply, 20 seconds to build
• 390 HP, 160 SP, 1.25 'very light' armor
• front bank Pulsegun- 35 dmg, 3000 range,  12 sec cd, 'composite' type
• rear bank Missile weapon- 30 dmg, 3500 range, 13 sec cd, 'composite' type
• side banks Flashbeam- 20 dmg per bank for .1 seconds, 3000 range, 9.5 sec cd, 'antilight' type

I think there's a few things that can be done with them as-is, but having a unique armor type will help balance them not just for release, but subsequent patches and re-balancing. Making them carried by either carriers or large ships does not fight any over-effectiveness of Corvettes while keeping the good roles they currently play. It does help 'cap' the number on the board.

One thing that could be tried is to decrease the cooldown on the Rear bank weapons, then decrease the damage to compensate. My aim here is that this would increase the amount absorbed by shield mitigation and effectively reduce their dps. I would try doing this solely to Rear bank weapons because the bigger targets will also not move much and the Corvettes will be forced to turn around more often when fighting them, I think. This would also have the benefit of making their weapon affects more important... Something that I've said before should be the main focus of the ship.... But that's just what I would do.

you should update your awesome spreadsheet of awesome sometime... prolly when things are a little more hammered out.

The average DPS is about 4.5 -ish.  Half going in, half on the way out.  Ships can't spin fast enough to hit them so anti-fighters, capitalships and titans are the only counter -effectiveness increasing respectively. 

The pirates ships can always be given regular armor and corvettes given pirate armor, then damage % bonus changed.

Yes, Corvette class weapon a major solution.  With this, the damage % bonus can be appropriate and the damage doesn't have to change because the Front/Back weapon type would only be good vs capitalships, corvettes and titans.  Spam away, It'd take 2-5 Corvettes to dish out full listed damage against other targets.

        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:CapitalShip 0.75
        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:VeryLight 0.20
        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Light 0.25
        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Medium 0.30
        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Heavy 0.40
        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:VeryHeavy 0.50
        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Module 0.20   
        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Pirate 1.00   
        DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Titan 1.00

To be clear to those that look at this, this was SemazRalan's suggestion. Currently, there is no 'Corvette' Attack modifier. I just went and looked it up to be sure.

Another thing I might advocate is actually giving Corvettes their own armor type instead of their own attack type. This way, ships can be tailored to anti-Corvette duties.

Ty

np

corvettes basicly already have their own armor type.

its only shared currently with fighters, which, only take damage from other fighters and flack frigs...

so medium-titan modifiers are totally touchable without affecting previous balance.

I'm only building corvettes at this point and my Titan (for taking over the planets... playing as Advent.   FYI... building 400+ corvettes and spamming the enemy makes the game lag and then finally crash.   If I was playing the TEC and had the Wal-mart economy powering my fleet of corvettes, I doubt anyone would be able to stop it. And the TEC only got more awesome with the addition of a 2nd starbase per gravity well. None of my friends play any other race (and haven't for awhile because of the TEC's super economy). 

Corvettes are their own ship type, but they are not fighters and can be fired on at by any ship in the game except antimodule.

typeCount 1
frigateRoleType "Corvette"
statCountType "FrigateCorvette"

armorType "VeryLight"

The VeryLight armor does not mean only fighters/AF's can fire on them.  VeryLight armor comes into the DamagePercentBonus -how much damage different weapons do vs things with that armor.