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[quote]Anyone who thinks Illums are worthless and that you should get the battleship as your flagship needs to stop playing Advent. Fact is, a mothership flagship with level one shield regen can clear out any system at the start of the game. Want a Terran planet? A couple ice? Just send in your mothership and keep clicking shield regen. I don't know how anyone would play Advent this way.[/quote] Haha. Fact 1: Illums do 25% less damage against light armor and

"Even if you try to counter LRMs with [B]carrier fighters[/B], the only true counter, you will never be able to kill his cap ship or raid his planetary structures while he will still be able to easily kill yours, retreat, rebuild and reinforce with [B]flak frigs or his own carriers[/B], all the while having trade posts doubling (at least) his credit income compared to yours." Note the difference, carrier fighters means fighters based on a carrier. Funnily enough, the TEC player could al

I have. The others are simply worse than playing the AI. The point wasn't to claim that I nor anyone else is perfectly experienced with the game in all ways. I was reinforcing the OP based on my personal experience with the game in 1v1 playing with and against every faction. Conveniently you seem to have ignored the OP. "So basically you spam LRMs and he decides that a good counter is flak frigs. That doesn't make ANYONE have a better voice in balance." Nice strawman. What's yo

LRMs only do 25% less damage to cap ships compared to Illuminators while still having far superior single target damage thanks to the inferior Illuminators only being able to fire upon the cap ship with one laser at a time. LRMs also require an entire military research lab less and cost less per unit. Try again. Even if you try to counter LRMs with carrier fighters, the only true counter, you will never be able to kill his cap ship or raid his planetary structures while he will still be able to