The Kol is a brick.  A very stubborn brick.  A very stubborn brick that refuses to die.  But that's all it is.  Flak Burst is only useful against TEC or Advent SC, and that's if you have multiple Kols.  GRG is marginally useful by default and only becomes something of use once you get a level 6 Dunov because of Flux Field.  The Kol simply can't do anything to support it's surrounding fleet and as such is a poor choice as a general rule unless your enemy is doing nothing but spamming light carriers.

Problem is getting actual players to target the Kol. Any smart player would just ignore the Kol and aim for the more vunerable Dunovs, carriers, and repair cruisers in the back.

See, I have barely even touched the multiplayer yet.  I take a look at the ppl online playing against "unfair" ai and i'm like.....  How about no?  And I did play against another player once and got creamed in less than twenty minutes.

So the AI (On normal) will usually go after the Kol.  Idk if this is what they do on harder difficulty settings.

However, I do get the point.  Kol is bad for MP.

Which is exactly what I just said.  The Kol strategy works fine for SP because of dumb AIs.  Multiplayer not so much.

I think the Kol is awesome...it is one of the best capital ships in the game, probably 2nd only to the marauder or revelation...my biggest problem with the kol is that I don't think it has quite the firepower that a battleship should have...I'd personally advocate some more lazers...also, the engine trails are a little lame, nyan engines would be more appropriate....

I also think Unity mass should do chaining damage...

Doesn't matter. If you want a tank, the Corsev does it better, and it steals ships and does AoE damage. Want an early game damage dealer? The Sova does it better, and it can cripple your opponents economy. Want to blow a lot of ships up? Get a Marza, it does it better, and it will blow up your enemies' planets too. What type of game you're playing doesn't matter. The only thing unique to the Kol is destroying strikecraft. There are better caps for everything else. The only difference is making a bad choice in single player doesn't kill you. In multiplayer, it does.

Of course, if you really like how the Kol looks, no one is stopping you from building one. Just keep in mind you're basically getting all looks and no substance. And yes, we'll keep trashing it until the Devs make it better, so if we call you insane for building one don't take it personally. Its for a good cause.

Edit: Dang it Seleuceia, if you can leave one type of thread alone from your trolling, make it Kol threads. If there is one thing this community should be able to agree on and teach the new comers, it should be never build a Kol, despite all the iconography telling you otherwise.

I know, you aren't as bad as mecha. Though I wonder if there should be a yet at the end of that.

In all honesty they could probably fix the Kol by simply removing the anti-matter requirement for GRG all together.

Provided the Kol has adequate AM it deals relatively good damage to single targets with GRG/beams/lasers. However needing to spend the AM on Flak and Shield make the ship's dps drop to levels where it is completely negligible. The upgrade levels for the GRG should still provide damage increase. 

Then if the AM requirements for the other three abilities could be increased if necessary.

This would make the Kol versatile, as you could then have reliable dps from a heavily armored brick. Or anti bomber platforms or a mix of the two.

It should be noted that the current cooldown on GRG is entirely fine, and does not really need tweaking at all.

I don't know Zombie... why wouldn't I just build another Dunov or Marza in the same situation? Dunovs especially you can never have enough of with titans, and once they're drained the titan of antimatter, you can switch the rest to healers.

I'm just pointing out what I've actually seen in some MP games. I'm not necessarily advocating this, I'm just pointing out I've seen this used effectively in MP games.

It is very true that he Kol with GrG and finest hour deals a considerable punch. But how many times do you see a group of 3 or more Kol's at level 6+ in a fleet?

Meh, ship's probably fine anyway, if something were terribly wrong with it I'm sure there would be 30 something threads about it... oh wait.

I always have three kols in my fleets and since it's very hard for them to die and no one shoots at them anyways they usually get to level six easily.

I'm saying bomber spam is the only reason to build them, and even then its a gamble, since mass bombers can kill anything pretty easily.

Corsev is a better tank hands down outside of a 1v1 (which never happens), and it is more versatile. And I personally hate the Corsev. It doesn't win compliments from me easily.

I said below level six in my post. Any ship that needs an ultimate to be decent is at a severe disadvantage. Why do you think the Vasari Loyalist titan isn't as feared as much as the Ragnarov or Eradica? The maw is awesome, its just by the time you get to level six often time the battle is decided, or you could have built something else to win earlier. Needing 4 level six caps to do anything is ridiculous, especially as TEC when they have the awesomeness of missile barrage. If nothing else, the opportunity cost of not having another cap at level 6 is what kills the Kol.

I'm just saying few caps have an ability as useless as adaptive forcefield. Its hard to be versatile with an ability you'll never get a point in.

I realize I'm sounding harsh on the Kol. I actually like the ship like everyone else, I even used it as one of my mods hero units. But it really deserves all the criticism it gets, and I hope one day the devs will actually listen and change it so it might have a more useful role when you're actually trying to win a game.