[Monroe]

I like the variance in etas, I think it adds to the strategy of the game. Why take the eta strategies out of the game? They are not too complicated for newbies but at the same time add complexity to attacking and defending that helps keep the game interesting. As Tietäjä points out the ship stats tend to compensate for the differences in etas to balance them out, and certainly there hasn't been a huge rush to FI/CO because they are faster then CR/BS. In short I have yet to see a good argument in this thread as to why this should be done, and there are interesting tactical reasons for it not to be done.