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This post >>718213221 is not referring to discord, mods or anything, it's just a schizo >>718214242 that brought them up as ad hominem. Back to the point, the game has a capital-class "Ziggurat" phase ship that turns invisible and gets behind shields, smoking anything in its range with a capital-sized ordnance. What's worse, you earn just by playing the tutorial-ish main quest. So the Ziggurat and phase ships being an SSSS class in themselves, every other ship has a huge balancing disparity with it and thus there's no thinking required to optimize an endgame build, since it always comes back to the same best ship which punishes you for not using it to have a massive advantage against endgame fleets. Any incentive to ignore the powercreep is out the window when the game gives you a bunch of nerf pistols along with one gatling gun, so people either get mods to add variety balance to the vanilla arsenal, or stay as phase sloppers/lowtech masochists