Talhydras wrote:That's actually an interesting question. In my own personal opinion (I'd like to repeat this just to make sure it sinks in: In my own personal opinion) I think stock balancing is probably the most reliable way to make multiple fleets fair. It's far from the only way though.
Having more than a little experience in the field, I'd like to take a moment to start explaining some stuff. Balancing vs. a stock fleet gets really, really complicated when you're balancing ships with more than a hundred sections, because none of the stock ships are that big. Well, you can get around the raw HP problems if you want to keep a tight 1:1 of battleship to battleship, but there's other issues. When you lose a section, your ship gets juggled backwards. If I have five times as many sections with one fifth the hitpoints, I'm getting juggled five times as hard. This can be an enormous pain in the ass to get around, which is why my Faladhi fleet, which IS stockbalanced to the best of my abilities and patience, has ships rated as more expensive and bigger than stock vessels. Faladhi dreads are stockbalanced, but not against single Cronus, but more like 2 Cronus and a Hestia-Alpha.
Just do like I do - balancing according to size.. Your ship that's roughly the size of a Chronus should roughly have the power of a Chronus.
If it's 3 times bigger, than it should also have a lot more firepower, no?
