The Evacuator's support abilities is plain brutal that people believe that that's all they have to build to win but if you take away its anti-matter storages, its quite a weak ship.  Without planet drain, it take over 45 minutes to kill a 6000 hp planet by itself.  Its also ridiculous that players quit or force a lag disconnect when they lose a death egg.

I'm personally like the versatility the Skirantra, Kortul, and Desolator bring to a fleet.  However, the simple reality is that nanos and gravity bomb are just plain brutal abilities.  This is especially true in the vs Advent matchup where shield regeneration is the big thing you have to work around.  It's very normal for Advent to lose frigates and even caps that still have 100% of their shields just to phase missiles and nanos that are piercing those shields.

They're not unbeatable, but nanos and gravity bomb are both among the game's most powerful abilities.  The evacuator is an all around monster, and its only real weakness is low damage output.

So are the Advent just screwed against Vasari egg and phaaaase missles, considering the Mothership (Egg of the Advent fleet) focuses on Shields as well? How should the Advent player react?

The other day I played a great game as advent against good vasari players (who used all eggs, of course).  I found that the radiance battleship (with the antimatter burn special ability) worked great against the eggs.  It means you can't get the mothership as your first cap if you want to aggressively counter the egg, but that's fine - you can't have everything.  Besides, it means the egg is countered as well, and the radiance is a fine ship anyway.  We need more usage of other caps in this game, so don't be afraid to experiment.  You could also try to reverie the egg with the other advent cap and see how that works.

Bottom line - I don't think advent are necessarily screwed, or at least I wasn't in that particular game.

No they dont!

Only thing is...it's great to have 2 or 3 eggs, but if you throw in at least 1 kortul and 1 skirantra, you get instant healing on your eggs with the skirantra and also get the abilities from the kortul to halt fighters/bombers from killing your eggs quickly.

You take 3 eggs - 1 Kortul - 1 Skirantra - 5 or so Carriers - 15-20 Skarovas Enforcers and you have one bad ass fleet that will be damn near impossible to take down.

As mentioned, Radiance is your friend.  However, a Rapture with vengeance is also a good idea.  You can actually get "an eye for an eye" going with a well used radiance/rapture combo and punish someone for overusing nanos.  Again, your biggest liability is that you essentially have no way to heal your capital ships since shield regeneration doesn't mean a lot against shield-bypass weapons.

Your biggest asset is that you can get carriers with only two labs, and you have arguably the most cost-effective light frigates.  Advent is perhaps the only faction where carrier/LF is actually a viable opener.

oh ya, Skarovas are the best Heavy Cruiser in the game in my opinion. toughest, best damage, and Inertia Field is a better special ability than Intercept or the damaging aura thing the Advent get.

the point i was trying to get at though is that it doesn't even take a "sizeable fleet" of them to match the DPS of a Jarrasul. just like 5 of em is more than enough.

what it really comes down to is that i don't see much of the appeal of having 2 Nano Dissasemblers working at the same time. the bigger damage boost from this ability is the armor reduction, not the direct damage (though that's quite good too). the cooldown is shorter than the duration on it to begin with so your focus fired target will basically ALWAYS be Nano bombed. having 2 Jarrasuls doesn't make that work any better.

and with regards to planet suck, don't get me wrong i think its a fantastic ability. however...i would still pick killing the planet faster over getting more bonus creds out of another activation of planet suck. its not like my economy relies on the suction, its just a small bonus, helps me crap out another carrier or something. from a strategic perspective i'm always gonna go with the Desolator because doing more damage to the enemy economy is greater net gain {in my opinion} than gaining a few more bonus creds with an extra planet suck.   

I've posted this before, but it seems relevant....

*cues "Flight of the Valkyries"*

with every one of those at level 6+, that fleet also had 20 of the planet killers.