Got bad news for ya man. The Range of LRM type ships is increasing, but so is the cost, but not by much at all.

+30% range in fact, but about +30% the cost too from what I can tell. If only flaks could target incomming missiles, that would be interesting. But they say they've been playtesting non-stop, so surely they know something we don't about the patch and it's implications.

OMG NERF LOSING PLEASE! I CANNOT BARE THE LOSING!

Have you guys considered getting carriers?

I play mostly TEC, and have found a decent fleet with a couple Capital battle ships along with a pair or 3 carriers dispatches frigates pretty quickly. They also take a huge amount of punishment - especially if you throw in 5-6 repair cruisers. With 3 developed carriers you have 15 fighter wings. You can even afford to go hunt that enemy frigate fleet.

It takes time to build this fleet, but it works for me..

You're right. A lot more time than it takes to get a pile of LRM's on the field.

I'm guessing it had something to do with the full 1.03 changelog they posted.

Luckily for us, Sins balance system allows for things to be changed in multiple ways. It sounds like what we need is either

1) a more effective counter to LRM's (since flak dont have the firing arcs to appropriately deal with them). Raising flak damage vs Light wouldnt work since bombers are also classified as light. Maybe their should be a race specific tech uprade for flaks (like what we have for light frigates etc). Could be something that makes them more effective vs other frigates or something. Or perhaps put strikecraft and bombers into their own seperate armor types so that flak damage to lrms can be adjusted better.

or 2) raise the cost in terms of resources and fleet supply of LRMs. At least the same cost as flaks. Make Tec Lrm's be 275 credits and take 5 supply.

or 3) reduce their health.

or 4) reduce their damage vs Medium armor to 125% and vs Capital armor to 50%. Their counter to basic assault is reduced but still strong, while they are also less of a cap ship vaporizer. This also makes it so that only heavy cruisers, structures, bombers, and capital ships do 75% or more damage to capital armor. LRM's doing 75% to caps right now is a little out of sorts IMHO. This idea makes the most sense to me.

I mainly play against the AI but even there I know that LRMs are insanely effective for their cost. The only choices for opposing players are to build a bunch as well and/or survive until they can get heavy cruisers (unlikely).

Everytime I deploy a fleet, the LRM's are always the first ones to go down. They are quite vulnerable on the field.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/post.aspx?postid=303642

Posted last night.

I primarily play the AI so LRM spam isn't really an issue for me, but a simple remedy would be to put LRM's into a higher tech tier. Put them in the HC/Cielo tier (#5) and peoples priorities might change when confronted with the high investment in logistics and commodities required to acquire them.

Well, I made a rebalance mod. The problem is all frigrates have too many hitpoints. I reduced them dramatically so they are still useful but much more frgaile.

Did a lot of other rebalancing to, but no one seemed to even try my mod.

If you're waiting for the devs to balance things don't hold your breath - I just do not think theya re capable.

Well have faith in the devs, it takes a while to balance these things. Anyway, I agree wholeheartedly with one of the following as posted by WileyCoyote. We need either:

1) a more effective counter to LRM's (since flak dont have the firing arcs to appropriately deal with them). Raising flak damage vs Light wouldnt work since bombers are also classified as light. Maybe their should be a race specific tech uprade for flaks (like what we have for light frigates etc). Could be something that makes them more effective vs other frigates or something. Or perhaps put strikecraft and bombers into their own seperate armor types so that flak damage to lrms can be adjusted better.

or 2) raise the cost in terms of resources and fleet supply of LRMs. At least the same cost as flaks. Make Tec Lrm's be 275 credits and take 5 supply.

or 3) reduce their health.

or 4) reduce their damage vs Medium armor to 125% and vs Capital armor to 50%. Their counter to basic assault is reduced but still strong, while they are also less of a cap ship vaporizer. This also makes it so that only heavy cruisers, structures, bombers, and capital ships do 75% or more damage to capital armor. LRM's doing 75% to caps right now is a little out of sorts IMHO. This idea makes the most sense to me.