Defence

[Prophet 01]

DEFENCE IS  USELESS

All vets know this.
You're only hope in surviving is building superships and attacking players with smaller supers.  The strategy has been lost.  Now we have problems with people finding loopholes for avoiding confrontation because it's so simplistic.  (thinking of rock-paper-scissors)  Having built my fair share of ships (close to 300 now i think) I got bored of building supers and wanted to build a decent swarm/boarder that could survive missions.
NOT POSSIBLE, Don't try.  It's that simple.
It cost's 3.4 Energy per Attack point, 3.333 Energy per Hp with special and 166.67 Energy per def.  making it 50X more expensive. 

Therefore, I suggest Armour components generate Def instead of HP as nobody uses armour anyways...  thereby making the armour component functional again, making Defence useful and adding a whole new element of strategy back into this wonderful game.

[FTP]

Defence got totaly useless when the stack weapons got a reduce in power and when the swarm bonus got limitted.


People use armour for swarmers ;)