Dear Devs, Yr game will sell better if you add options to: - switch-off animations ; - "enable phase drives" for all ships, not only small ones. Option to double-speed everything also won't hurt. I would have bought yr DLCs long ago, if I could stand wasting my time on pretty animations....

Are they just cosmetic or do they bring anything new to the table?

Is a big design flaw in this game.

So it occurred to me that there is no inherent combat advantage to using smaller ships instead of simply steam-rolling everything with Dreadnoughts. Sure, there is some economic risk-penalty for using expensive fleets (the warheads), but this doesn't seem to be enough -- its not that hard to bankroll expensive fleets. Enter the classic Master of Orion idea: when a ship is firing at a target, the greater the size differential, the greater a penalty is imposed on the attacker. So a tiny corvette should be ...

I've had the Syndicate and Royal DLC for a while now, and both sets of ships are pretty powerful overall. I've not seen much kudos about Colonial, and have seen a lot of negative about Federal power overall. It seems that Federal might even be weaker than the vanilla options. Has anything changed? Are they worthy of buying in their current state? Thanks for any input....