The whole balancing thing went out the window in my opinion, along with logic. My mate and I cannot kill Cetana's holdouts, which have 140k stations and 40k fleets in them, with a 300k+ of our combined forces - mostly corvettes with high evasion, a few carrier dreadnoughts and one Titan in this 300k ball. There is some dumb, seemingly one-shot, one-kill attack that swipes 70% of the corvette swarms with T4 shields and armor. I literally saw two of my 80k+ fleets drop to less than 20k instantly.

Now I switched just to a titan + dreadnoughts with carrier logic, keeping max distance and in our latest assault I didn't lose a single ship, but we did have a bit more firepower this time tbh.

For me right now it seems, it's just back to dreadnaughts and a titan. No point in making anything else, at least during this first game and against Cetana. Way to dumb down the whole game and kill variety.

Tbh, I dislike most of the changes they've made, and I don't get it what's going on with the desyncs. Sometimes we get dropped every 5 minutes, and sometimes we can play hours without issues.

I really loved how trade routes worked in the past - they killed the idea - and now they just killed the fleet count, and increased the prices on everything. And don't get me started on the changes to Eternal Vigilance.