Talk:TIE/x7/@comment-31119284-20170308234617/@comment-454133-20170309081804

I really don't see it that way, but I get that it hits people harder if they're the ones taking the nerf.

For the defender, the goal is to make the token require good flying, and to give actual strategy options to the opponent. If you ram an asteroid or ship, or get heavily stressed, you miss out. This means your opponent can be strategic and block you to deny the token, and you can't just dive through a debris cloud to avoid the block and still get your token. The opponent can finally pour stress on a defender and it doesn't just laugh it off.

Before the errata, there was nothing opponents could do to stop the evade, and the lack of strategy options made x7s very predictable, simplistic, and tedious to fight -- and thus boring. Consistency is not necessarily a good thing for a game!

x7 is still worth it -- in general if you don't ram something you're fine -- it's just slightly adjusted. Just learn to fly well like all other ships have to. :/  That may sound harsh, but you're lamenting the death of a ship that isn't dead. Post errata I saw x7s flying on many of the tables today... looks like other players haven't broken and thrown their models away after all. Maybe TIE defenders are still somehow well worth the cost? There's no need to get overly dramatic about the errata.

When top meta gets nerfed it always produces agony and proclamations of doom for the nerfed content. Life moves on. I'm sad for Manaroo because I loved having her in my fleets, but man am I breathing a sigh of relief. I'm so tired of seeing her in every scum fleet, always on the other side of the table barely interacting. I'm also tired of seeing TIE Defenders serve as THE go-to empire ship, with the palp shuttle as the close second (often with tie defenders). That displaced a lot of fun ships, which people didn't fly because they weren't TIE Defenders, Dengaroo or Paratanni. Now we'll get to see some more variety, like when U-Boats got nerfed and suddenly the viable fleet options opened up.

And frankly I suspect Manaroo and Palp will still be seeing a fair amount of playtime. People will figure out what to do with them.