Gan0ndorf

I don't understand why illuminators suck ? I have been building fleets based on illuminators, the damage wasn't bad at all. They will focus fire. If i don't have defense vessels, i don't see the damage being spread out, they hit the main target, or maybe i'm wrong ? Do they hit for 1/3 of their nominal damage ? Didn't look like that to me. Please explain. I'll tell you my experiences, i'm not a uber beta player so i may be lacking some experience, but here it goes. In 1vs1 well

Bob, the races are not the same. Ship classes may be the same for all, but for each race they work differently. I don't think the guardian vessel (shield extending) and the robotics cruiser are the same ? Just an example. Then there are more subtle variations in damage types, armor types and firing arks between ships of the same class of different races. Also you say you are good yet all battles are the same ? Do you counter what your enemy is doing and do you micro your fleet ? These 2

Shouldn't you spend all that money ?

Flaks don't have the best damage type vs lrms. Flaks do anti-verylight damage type, so they get 100% damage vs lrms which have light armor. Fighters and scouts get to do 200% on lrms. From what i understand the way they are being used to counter lrms is to use their multiple firing arcs to hit 4 ships, and if microed this way they have a 400% bonus. I've yet to see it happen in multiplayer against a lrm swarm, if both players micro, the lrms will still shoot while moving while the flak fleet has