Ships 5v5 was great, involved much less RNG and I saw diversity up until the end of that era, where we finally got some ship content in the form of a ship pve table that we all completed in a very short time to quickly run out of ship content. Pve table should have been either harder or longer, we need a ship raid, we need ship content in events, anything. (though they seem to be bad at running events that already exist anyway).
We need more capitals, we need more fighters. They need to release a lot of new stuff for ships at once. Give us options.
Right now, the meta is the worst its been since 3v3 release. Coming first means nothing. Who cares that you can come first now? it's boring. Ships is not fun because you can suddenly win now because pre-falcon you were terrible at it so you need a op ship to win, congrats on you being terrible at games.
Ships was better before Falcon came in, yes HT broke a lot of the fun of ships in 3v3, especially the poor people who actually spent resources on geo's, but it was still beatable. The diversity I saw pre-Falcon era was everyone in the top 20 had a different fleet combination. Everyone.
This made Fleet enjoyable as I could target different people everyday for a different fight. Lots of diversity, lots of fun. Less RNG then Ackbar Falcon era. My starting combo was simple. Resources spent mattered.
The fact that right now, every fleet is the same, and the fact that right now, you go into every fight with a 50% chance of winning or losing instantly at the start is a terrible meta. This current Falcon era meta is the worst 3v3 has ever been.
I can fight the same guy 100 times, 50 times I'll never lose a ship and he never gets a turn, 50 other times, he never loses a ship while I never get a turn. The Rng is terrible.
It feels like with ships they have no idea what to do with it. They trying as hard as they can to monetize it to make as much money out of it as possible, but most of us already have either all the ships or most of the ships maxed.
So what they should do is release 20 or so ships at once into the fleet store. spread them out over nodes in cantina, just really up the ship game.
While also adding in capitals. There is so many easy Capitals to add. Just something. Enough with the marque hard node ship farming that makes the ship meta take forever to change. If another ship meta comes out to counter Falcon but requires a 20 hard node 5 attempts per day nrg farm to get, hardly anyone will get it, and just like previous meta's, will hardly effect the current meta at all for ships.
All in all, HT was a mistake, Falcon was a bigger mistake.