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It's by faction as a matter of technical necessity. It's a bonus that piggybacks on the host ship's Degrading Systems buff.
Unless it's been fixed, the diplomatic ships were broken for the longest time in the 1.0 betas...
Not that it ever occurs to me to test them, so it could have been fixed for months now...
. Hopefully that will set me a little bit better in store for utilising them .
Bombers, all bombers.
So, basically, the shape didn't allow it. Completely changing the orientation of the ship allowed for most of it, which would also be true of most other ships.
This is especially true of Venators and VSDs.
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Reverse your fleet distribution. Because of how plentiful they are, they're NOWHERE near as powerful in the game as in canon (as in, less than 1/2 as powerful as the B-wing). You'll need decent numbers to win with them. Interceptors will do basically NOTHING against any shielded vessel, they are only useful for the initial superiority. If you have ANY AA corvettes in your fleet, you don't need anywhere near as many Interceptors as you have.
. Haven't seen this myself. My Arquitens and CR90's have consistently always auto-targeted fighter craft.
Good question. While the skipray shouldn't get this so much (yeah, it was tough as nails but was a big target and not very maneuverable), the Defender would in theory since they were the performance king, and historically only the best of the best (or insanely lucky) got to fly them.
They're pretty simple really. They have the masses of cheap, disposable units like the IR, but also bring masses of fighters to the party. Go nuts on the Blastboats, use just enough interceptors to keep your blastboats "safe", and be sure to have a few Praetors to keep your frigates & cruisers alive for more than a second or 2.
. I'm sure Corey&Co have drastically upped the health points of the NR & EoTH fighters to make them significantly more durable than the IR/PA ones. I've played a lot as the NR, and while it is harder to win through military, that's as it should be. The NR had a much smaller focus on that, but I've never noticed that IR bombers were able to wreck my fleets, it's those freaking ISD-II's w/ VSD's supporting them that usually trash my ships. In my experiences their bombers are quite decently contained by my fighters. But that's my experience, and why Corey's going to be having more people testing (not trying to sound cocky, but I'm rather good with the NR in this game, which is why everyone ganged up on me when we recorded the very first multiplayer) to get the balancing right.
No, I've found if you have decent fighters (not Tie Fighters), they do a fairly decent job. In a giant battle my Interceptors were definitely keeping the bombing runs to a minimal on my ships (2 fleets of ~50-60 ships each side; fighter:bomber ration on my fleets is close to 1:2), and I experienced only minimal losses due to their heavy frigates and caps combining fire on my poor nearly defenseless Dominator cruisers.