Re: Fighters too powerful?
The main reason for fighters seeming invincibility is the AI's slowness in researching point defence. In my game, I have altered the tech tree to give level 1 PD at game start, but, have made subsequent levels more expensive. The AI players go berserk building WP's and ships with PD (I have Mephistos mod loaded too) and this greatly impacts on using fighters and missiles. That is not to say they are not useful, just that they are not so dominant and have to be employed in very large numbers to survive the PD defences.
I have a mixed force of capital ships and carriers normally in a 3:1 ratio.....
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