I don't play Vasari enough to comment on most of these, however, how is Reintegration bad?  Self-heals that stack with repair bay heals or capship healing effects, right?

Doesn't this keep enforcers alive a lot longer?

Yes, reintegration stacks with Repair Cloud and the repair bays, giving you a theoretical 63 HP/s but that never actually happens in game. Either your carriers die right away (Online focus fire) or you dont need healing at all (Single player retreat-happy AI). As I see it, Reintegration is a way to draw enemy fire and keep them busy, and healing for 18 hull/s isnt enough to do much of anything.

Dont get me wrong, I love this game and it IS really well balanced. I just think some things could be made better without breaking the balance

I have some thoughts about this also...

First of all, the point of repairing stuff is to repair stuff, not to make things invulnerable. With reintegration you are talking about a T2 ability which lets the ship repair itself. If it was buffed too much, it would need to be moved to T3 or possibly T4.

I agree with the useless bonus for Vasari colonizing. It could be made more useful, iirc it doesn't even scale for levels except for it's duration, which is kinda lame.

It seems that Vas scouts capping neutrals should be nerfed somewhat, since they easily get very imba in maps with lots of neutrals and are pretty hard to catch if handled properly, unlike colonizing frigs, for example. (maybe restrict Vas scouts limit to 4-5, or increase capturing AM requirement by 10-20, or reduce antimatter capacity from 300 -> 200, or raise fleet cap req from 3 -> 5, etc.)

I find it kind of stupid anyway that there's just some totally invulnerable omnipotent resource extractors just sitting somewhere in deep space. Why not just make them neutral asteroids on which colonizing frigs / scout ships could actually build destructable extractors? Then maybe make it possible to build static defense next to them? Or make them upgradeable for a cost so they could have their own little turrets! (and possibly become tougher)

Deliv engine aint that big of a deal. Kostura could be made more useful, though.

edit: I just noticed you weren't really talking about capship abilities but synergy... Well, how about running around with a dozen carriers with the Marauder's speed boost for example?

i think u have to play the other races for a while, and than think about balance

I agree with him also, your perspective seems to hold only the Vasari view. There's a whole lot of information to be taken in before trying to make balance suggestions.

They're not some omnipotent resource. Get some navigators or col frigs of your own in there and they can capture them away from your enemy.

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You're missing the point, which was that they're invulnerable.

I forgot about mitigation. I still think that its not all that great though. I've seen too many Enforcers die to only handfuls of ships. If my Enforcer gets the penalty of no moving and no attacking, I want it to have the buff of lots of survivability. Now they just get a little boost.

The neutral extractor scuttle bug was explicitly addresses for 1.1 - now people want to go back to 1.05 behaviour?

Remember that a colony frig will kill a vassari scout!!!

I also find it funny that people bitch about the super weapons - first time I think I have heard of someone saying Advent's one is too strong.

Note that the Vassari one also DISABLES things as well as damaging them. The idea is to jump in straight after it hits and get some quick licks in while the opposition is stunned!!!

Returning Armada, Phase Stabilisers? Vasari ships might not be terribly resilient, but reinforcements can come out of nowhere, and quickly.

The example of the Kostura Cannon does point to one command type that does not appear to be present in the UI, and whose omission seems fairly hard to logically ascribe to spacefaring races with both FTL communication and FTL drives -- the ability to synchronize operations using something more sophisticated than a stopwatch and reflexes.  It should be possible, for instance, to select a unit and given a movement order -- but delayed until the point where starting it would be expected to result in synchronizing a particular outcome (the unit entering a gravity well, say) with the outcome of another condition (like 'enemy fleet destroyed in this gravity well' or 'superweapon projectile detonation') plus a safety margin.  Logically speaking, the orders would be disseminated and programmed, and the programs would be executed when the sensors reported that they should be -- and likewise, ships would be reporting how long they expected to take to reach their next waypoint or so forth.   The 15 second shock would be more useful if one had a reasonable expectation of being able to actually use those 15 seconds.

The catastrophic-devastation levels do seem a bit low; physically annihilating planets should be difficult, but making them almost completely pointless for colonization (better suited for mining using disposable prison labor, or as isolated detention centers for interogating alien hostages) does not seem to be too implausible.  Along vaguely related lines, a 'finite resources' (resource yields slowly dropping, and perhaps tied to increasing credit costs) option would be sort of nifty, and hopefully not too code-intensive (compared to, say, actually changing the map by smashing asteroids or breaking pieces off of planets).  Finite resources would perhaps also help the Vasari, due to the resource-getting planet-hoover and the battle salvage, for what that's worth.

It's very situational. If you have an opponent who's turtling behind a mess of defenses and repair platforms, a Kotsura is your best friend. 3 minute disable on 5-6 repair platforms will make it a lot easier to get the turtled fleet.

The ship disable is rather inconsequential, though In any case, apparently the Kotsura is getting an overhaul to be more useful in Entrenchment, but Blair didn't say how

I find Vasari scouts to be balanced, actually. Vasari ships cost a lot more than their counterparts, and there arent usually enough neutrals to really get a huge income off of anyways. Some maps it can be OP, but others its useless. So it balances out

Well, IIRC the change in 1.1 applied to neutral mines as well, so they should be held to the same allegiance penalties as planets so the number should be smaller. Can't say I actually looked at whether or not neutrals have an allegiance penalty now, though.