Fighters are now unbalanced

[murx]

Barnacle Bill - wow, great summary !

Maybe to balance fighters and capital ships better fighters should have Rules like following:

Fighters on planets have only 10% maintainance cost of the compared weight to capital ships.
Fighters on carriers have only 25% maintainance cost of the compared weight to capital ships.
Fighters in space have 50% maintainance cost of the compared weight to capital ships.

Fighters that stay five consecutive turns in space get automatically destroyed.

On the other hand fighters should get experience - at least squadrons should get experience.

Now why should fighters still be cheaper the capital class - fighters are really mass-production so repair, refit and the like is cheaper (at least as long as SE4 doesn't depict different econmy styles, right now it uses some kind of capitalism....) then the small series of capital ships. Just compare the numbers of capital ships produced during WW to the number of planes constructed. Same for the heavy tanks and smaller ones ...

murx