POLL Fixing the Swarm problem, FAP or crit system changes?

[Foxmeister]

Any change to the crit chart or crit chance makes all precise weapons worse and so every ship with precise weapons would need to be rebalanced.

Take a 6AD TD BEAM. It should average 6 hits and 2 crits. If average crit damage is around 2 then thats 12 extra damage so 30 in total. That's a huge amount of damage to take away or reduce.

The same logic applies to any TD beam - not just precise ones. My reason for singling out just the single damage precise weapons is because they are usually there simply to cause crits and thus critical effects - the damage is usually secondary to the actual crit itself.

To be honest, I think part of the problem is Precise anyway. Far too many ships/fleets have access to a lot of Precise weaponry and it really is the crits and crit effects that spoil the game at higher PLs IMHO. Even a 1/6 chance of a crit (i.e. non-precise) for each "confirmed" hit is way too high in my opinion - especially for those races that don't have any method of "stopping" hits (dodge, interceptors, stealth etc).

The VaS crit system would certainly have improved the ACTA, but it's difficult now to re-integrate it or any other solution without encountering significant balancing issues.

Regards,

Dave