Ok, so we're all mostly in agreement that talismans are pretty out of balance...
(my personal solution is to just change it to +99% chance to hit as this is what i think makes the most sense, and is a good balance with all the 'normal' races having +65% with combat sensor 3's (but the more i think of a 'normal' +85% cs4, the more i like it... hard to decide tho, since it really affects everything a lot)
having master computers is the 'current' solution to the subverter 'balance' problem...
(someone mentioned that even after a mc is destroyed that the ship will be unable to be subverted in the upcoming patch ... anyone have an eta on the next gold-patch???
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the only issue with this is the cost... i will of course be using mc's against any psychic races, but still, it forces an expensive cost into a light cruiser design which would normally need only 1500 mineral for the cq, bridge, and ls... vs what, 4k mineral, 1k of org and 1k rad for a computer?
if you have a self-destruct device, will it blow up the offending subverter ship as well?... does it even work vs subverters? (in terms of blowing up?)