Is it time to buff virals?

Ship wise, they have been fairly balanced, even after the D Ship nerf, and before that the Borr/Chiron nerf. The problem really is its racials early on, the additional problem is you have players who are either pop or commercial, by changing one to be the stronger will screw some I think. Can you change the build cost multiplier for marauder ships or is it for all ships for viral? Also, you could theoretically do something else, but with the way people hate playing min miners, I doubt that will go through. I don`t think producing Cgs or food really is the answer, I think its hitting their upkeep ratios and build costs while buffing their racial stats. By that I mean tweaking terran/miner by decreasing and increasing marauder to the point where it would seam feasible any route of building would come out about the same upkeep wise. But that would require alot of tinkering and not sure what all could be possible. (insert spinoffs from there).

Meh sounds like you want to nerf maru. If you do that at least don`t play it off as a med race, list it as hard. Col can make more per plunder on same land and have better agri, so if they are hard and maru get nerfed LOL

eh Virals are fairly balanced, a great shiplist but pretty bad econ when compared to everyone else. What makes virals OP`d is when they spam nothing but Maru ships and fez but when they try to stack with terran and miner ships then that econ really gets put in perspective. Maybe if maru ships had increased upkeeps comm might warrant buffing for virals.

Comm shouldn`t be buffed anyhow or at least it should be the last thing buffed because there is no risk involved in that econ path and it should remain the worst on the list. but perhaps making it so virals could produce cg`s and make more than they could with comm wouldn`t be such a bad idea.

the Lure of Guard and miner drag would be virals away from going that race. Who wouldn`t want unlimited credits with the right set up. Why go Tax viral when you can go tax miner and affect the server of your choice in a much quicker fashion. Also those who go Maru and collective and stick with it usually find that it`s better than Viral simply because after they get decent land then that not-smartly cheap upkeep of theirs allows them to out build anything that would be able to do as a viral. also since generally virals tend to be hoarders being unexplorable is generally no deterrent so why go viral to play with 3 maru ships when you can have their entire shiplist and still make more on average?

Well, i`m up for considering Viral changes. Shoot me a pm with reason why you think they are weak and what needs to be buffed, and if you feel opposite send me why you think they`re strong and give examples.

Virals are overpowered. Just because you don`t see many on Normal, doesn`t mean they`re weak whatsoever. I`d agree with GG that comm modifiers need some more love, not too much though.

nerf miner tax income and buff virals income

Virals should get income boost

Virals are in no way shape or form under powered lol

Keep Viral as they are as it is good as it is... possibly increase the comm mod a bit for new Viral`s,....

viral lost d class shortly before (or after i forget) guard got completely revamped, i say let them have d class back, too many guards atleast on rt

Maybe a slight income boost? ;0

Nerf the bors in return :D

BURN! ERADICATE ALL VIRUS.

HAIL LORD OF MINECRAFT ;0