Fleet Ship vs Starship general balance discussion

[TheDeadlyShoe]

In current world fighters are like viking berserkers armed with bazookas. Lots of bazookas.

[superking]

In an ideal world, all ship types would be useful on both defence and offence.

not really, I preffer variety of ship roles, but all the triangle ships are multipurpose to an extent (ie, pure fighter wave is countered by frigates)

[Kron]

Variety is great! I'm not saying that the optimal solution should be to always use triangle-blobs.

What I'm saying is that it would be nice if each triangle ship had a unique role in both defence and offence. That way, triangle-ships will be the bread and butter of any fleet, meant to be supplemented by starships and extra fleetships.

[Gallant Dragon]

Variety is great! I'm not saying that the optimal solution should be to always use triangle-blobs.

What I'm saying is that it would be nice if each triangle ship had a unique role in both defence and offence. That way, triangle-ships will be the bread and butter of any fleet, meant to be supplemented by starships and extra fleetships.

I think that's what was meant to be the balance all along, but the 4.0 changes have really changed A LOT.