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Joined: May 2012
Staff roles: Balance Dev
Balancing the ships we currently have is an ongoing (and difficult/time-consuming) task. Adding a new tier of ships will upset all that once again purely for the sake of giving people "something to work towards".
I would rather add new types of equipment balanced against the old but "with a twist". That or cosmetics are the better way to introduce new content that people will want but that doesn't introduce power creep.