Hey devs, i think there's this issue that might be worth having a think about with tau ceti. You have intended to make sure parsecs are the best ships to use in all the systems, which you have managed to do well. But in tau ceti, it has gotten to the level where i hardly ever see people fly a neon ship. Never have i ever i mean ever found anyone fly a bullfrog, kodiak, bobcat or a wolfhound. In fact some people who don't often sell ships sell the wolfhound because it's nothing special. The only ships i ever see people fly are the panther, thunderbird or the hawk and humpback. But once people get to calon, they immediately start flying the RDX ships and parsec ships (disruptor etc) but they also recommend flying it in venar or Earth in unrest. Again some may disagree saying that it's just how it's supposed to be. But the other reason they believe the neon ships are "garbage" is also because of their lack of strength in their abilities, an example would be the wolf hound. The allies cover by what others have been saying doesn't help much and instead relies on multiple wolfhounds in the squad to have an effect. The damage inverter still works a bit but compared to how it works on the endurer and the hathor clearly shows that our damage inverter has been nerfed or their's have been buffed. The kodiak as well is not a very good ship by the opinions i have gathered, the deflection droid doesn't seem to have much of an effect as like the ancient hathor's and that it could have also been nerfed. I.E. the deflection droid of the hathor does nearly 3 times the damage to me of my blasters to when i shoot it whereas the kodiak's deflection droid does a minimum. There also appears to be a lack of balance within the hp/armor and the speed of some of the ships, many people i play with have agreed that the thunderbird has a low speed despite it being squishy and dies a lot of the times in places like calon.
All of this has thus pushed nearly everyone to fly in calon with the same ships, CHROMIUM, Paragneiss, obsidion, SLATE, constructor, distruptor and they never fly their tau ceti ships. In fact I have seen some people just sell their ships and focus on the parsecs. The reason why i'm not particularly happy is because of the lack of use in tau ceti ships, it's a waste of design (and the ships really look nice) and it makes them lack purpose.