Daikaze

Fighting heavy cruisers easy enough... [bomber] Drones will easily handle the Heavy Cruisers... Of course, they could always add anti-fighter ships, and you can have standard frigates to counter them... everything can be beaten. The LRM, which is far too popular (but reasonable to be so), can be countered with [fighter] Drones as well. Of course there are easy counters to Drone carriers. There's a balance to every ship type, and it's easy to beat any specific ship... but it ta

Carriers are quite nice, but when an enemy brings in a flak frigate (or equivalent) the drones get wiped out. So you'll need other ships around to deal with the flak frigates. Of course, the major advantage to using carriers is that they can sit at the edge of gravity well all ready to jump while they fight. ;P Carriers are awesome for hit-and-run strategies.

I use it frequently. It's a handy feature that saves me time. The only situations where I don't use the auto-placement feature is when I want to place a missile turret or when I want to place a repair station. The only negative aspect to using this feature is that structures may not be placed in ideal locations. Simply, a turret could be placed near a phase lane that leads to another planet you own... or a bunch of structures will be placed on the side of the planet where enemies will c

There isn't a resource problem in this game. It's just that most people don't really invest in economy techs. I was having issues with a lot of my matches, but I eventually went down the economy line and everything was great. I will admit, the game can be quite slow though. A fast game, doesn't really mean much on multiplayer. :P Once we get the mod tools, I'm probably going to edit the damage values for all of my ship and see how things go. A damage boost with no defensive boost (

Well... Here's hoping that they add scripting to map making at some point in the near future. :)

Quick! Everyone set your computer's clock ahead a day...

I'll be fine as long as I can use a download manager (particularly Flashgot).