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Counterplay is a an ongoing discussion and what the team has been focusing a lot of effort on. The AA change with 0.8.5, the AA DPS changes being tested right now, the sector redesign are all efforts to improve this and based on both data and everyone's feedback. Data is crucial but it has to be paired with sentiment to ensure we have a 360 view of how players feel.
We've acknowledged that while the changes in 0.8.5 worked, it's a bit more efficient than preferred and a small minor adjustment was made yesterday. Once we've seen how this performs, it will allow additional changes as necessary. This was a significant and major mechanic change which works consistently across all AA ships and now that is't complete we can make more minor incremental changes.
Please continue to share your experience as we need to understand sentiment from both sides.