Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25189003-20140901021544/@comment-24332640-20140902012216

Tyakomou: I don't think that they're 'penalizing' aviation ships per se. It's just that a lot of the fundamental plane combat mechanics in this game don't really scale well with level. Aviation ships aren't useless at all at lower levels. But opening attack damage isn't all that effective even for the best carrier-based planes at high levels in the game. The emphasis is on fighter power and shelling damage, the first of which aviation ships are pretty poor at and the second of which isn't even relevant (since they do normal shelling).

There's also a lack of good 'high-level' seaplanes. Even prototype Seirans (which still aren't buildable or farmable) aren't really that good in the late game...