"Chastic burst is strong against heavy cruisers" No its not.

Yes, pure brute force can be effective at times.

Vasari Enforcers are superior and the rest just annoy me because Carriers have an unlimited range for damage plus cause more chaos in a gravity well for star-bases, capital ships and titans. 

The end game is carriers, titan, utilities cruisers and corvettes. All are resistant to (some extent) Titan Abilities. 

Currently HCs aren't really much beyond a damage soak. Maybe an extention on their range may help as they don't really have much, less then a light frigate IIRC. As Ohoh2 brought out, once bomber come out, they kind of neutralize HCs.

Its a sad day when guys like ryat who doesnt even play MP are taken seriously. 

Heavy cruisers are used in a variety of situations, but usually they are to brute force a high level marza or low level titan...most likely they will be built by a frontliner suddenly getting lots of feed or an eco player trying to fleet up and double on a large fleet...

If you go the route of HCs, you have a narrow window of opportunity to make use of them....the enemy will easily counter with bombers, hoshikos, and/or guardians, so whatever you plan to do with them you have to do fast...once titans get to higher levels and Advent/TEC SBs start getting their abilities, HCs are pretty much useless...

They serve a purpose and in certain situations can be the best option...not every game will see them though, and they usually depend on the element of surprise...

Looking at your post history, I fail to see what you've added here or to the community. So far, for the past couple of months, all you've done is complain about the state of flak in the game.

That's their weak point. They've got too many counters I'd say.

I think that yeah, adding some sort of flak ability to heavy cruisers to take out strike craft would be the best compromise.

They'd still have counters:

1. Most Titans have some anti-cruiser abilities

2. Repair cruisers and repair abilities in general

3. Certain capital ships would still be able to wear them down when supported

As it stands, they are really niche.

Makes notes for rebalanced races...

Not that I want to enable Sinkillr, but what if composite did bonus damage to heavy armor?

I think that giving them something to do reasonably well would be the solution.

Elaborating on what I said earlier, there are certain abilities that hurt a heavy-cruiser reliant fleet disproportionately. The Maw is perhaps the perfect example. A fleet with a lot of heavy cruisers would be harmed much more so than a corvette heavy or even a bomber heavy (could scatter carriers everywhere) fleet.

The best course of action is to give them something else to do other than stand there and soak.

1. Give all heavy cruisers some flak weapons on top of their current armament (basically a 2nd weapon)

2. Otherwise, give them something that they are good against

I got to say, brillant troll thread you got here, UnleashedElf. Much better than the usual riffraff we get from the troll lobby.

He has multiple personalities (and forum accounts), but I wouldn't call any of them pleasant.

Now that I think about this, anti-light would be better suited for a 2nd weapon on all cruisers versus anti-very light.

But yeah, I'm at a loss as to how else they could be made effective, other than a flat out buff to their firepower and hp.

I see.

I do not believe that he is interested in a serious discussion in this thread and appears to be here to troll, not offer productive conversation.

I think RagnorakEviscerator  is one of his alter accounts? Who else?