Okay...  First off, I agree with the fact that the Egg is good, but I also believe the others have their uses.

Kortul: Good battleship which can counter anything you throw at it.

Power Surge: increases the DPS of this ship by about 80% for 30 seconds with another 10 seconds after that.  It also regenerates health faster.  This requires so little AM for what it does, I generally classify it as a demi-passive.  This is quite good.

Jam Weapons: Deactivates SC in a very large radius.  A couple Kortuls and just a few sentinels can negate any number of SC you throw at them.

Disruptive Strikes [Passive]: This ability is bugged.  As it stands though, it is still good enough to prevent the enemy from using annoying things like Shield Regen and Shield Restore.  If fixed, this would make it far harder for enemy support ships to heal their allies as they would have no AM to do it with.

Volatile Nanites: This is a mass Pinpoint Targeting.  It increases damage done by 30% (very big boost in this game) and causes them to hurt each other upon death.  Call me crazy, but that is pretty good.

Skirantra: Good healing ship which allows friendly SC to stay alive far longer than normal, making them more effective.

Repair Cloud: Awesome ability.  It heals 300 hull to all ships in the radius, including SC.  This is why most people get this ship.

Microphasing Aura: This greatly improves the survivability of SC.  By making them dodge enemy fire, they don't die as quickly and it also allows them to deal more damage.  This is good.

Scramble Bombers: This is crap, I'll agree with you there.  I think it is a general consensus in the community that this needs to be reworked.

Replicate Forces: No its not the best one ever, but it is still helpful.  I tend to use this on sentinels and overseers.  If bombing a planet, it can help there as well.

Antorak: Hehehehe...  Yeah.. Have to agree with you there.  This is the crappiest capital in the game.

Phase Out Hull: Yeah...  This is just a weird form of Ion Bolt.  It does stop CB and MB though, so it is helpful to at least get one point in this...

Subversion: Yep, agree with you there.  Since I tend to have factories on border worlds and those right behind them, this tends to have very little effect.  I suppose it would be good at preventing an enemy from setting up an SB though...  In that way it would help a lot...

Distort Gravity: Yeah, the ships use the same AI as before, only now they go fast so it screws up their movement...  It is helpful in moving across vast distances, but then again, that is what you have Phase Gates for, so this doesn't really help that much unless going through enemy territory...

Stabilize Phase Space: This is actually pretty good.  By activating this right before you fire your Kostura, you can send your fleet straight towards the enemy's homeworld.  On the flip side, if attacking deep in enemy territory and the enemy suddenly shows up with a level 6+ Holy Trinity/multiple Marza's, you can evacuate quickly and save your eggs.

Vulkoras:  This ship has the most powerful PM batteries in the game.  Its something like 78 PM damage by level 6.  At level 10, this is dealing more than a hundred DPS with PM's alone.

Phase Missile Swarm: Finally, someone who understands how this ability isn't good.  The most important thing to note is that the PMS doesn't actually fire PM's.  They are just normal missiles...  If it fired actual phase missiles, it would be far better.

Siege Platform: Allows you to go deploy them while the rest of your fleet is getting shot at.  When you have enough deployed, you can go back and start pummeling people yourself.

Assault Specialization: Turns this ship into a one-man wrecking crew.  This thing allows you to deal far more damage to structures (and SB's unless I am mistaken) as well as planets.  Very good passive for a planet bomber.

Disintegration: While this is no MB, this is still a good "Super-Beam" weapon.  You heal yourself 50-75% of what you deal, making this a great way to take out enemy caps while keeping yourself alive.  Did I mention it deals damage directly to the hull?  Combine this with the PM's this ship already has, and this thing slaughters caps.

Well, there you go...  While the Antorak is indeed worthless, the others do have their uses...

 I just don't see why you think the Kortul is worthless?  It is a great ship which can effectively counter fleets.  I mean, one of these will make your fleet far more effective.  When you combine the counters of the Kortul with Nano, you get a very good combo which is hard to kill.

The same applies to the Vulkoras.  Against ships, it has tons of PM's and against planets/structures, it has abilities.  I just don't see what your point is...  In practice, Disintegration deals more direct damage than Cleansing Brilliance.  Technically, they both deal 2000 raw damage, but Disintegration damages the hull directly, rather than worrying about shields and mitigation.  That is what makes this good.  Sure, you can't synergize it with other abilities or hit multiple ships with the beam, but you do gain regenerate health thanks to it.

The Skirantra is on the bubble for me.  MPA is a good boost to SC and RC is a good thing to have as it vastly improves survivability of both fleet and SC.  I tend to get this ship to accompany an Egg as it helps out quite a bit.  When you combine this ship with a bunch of light carriers, it becomes more useful as MPA and RC just about make your SC immortal.

I had corrected it before you posted that, but on well...  Throw an Egg in with an Antorak for good measure, and you have the best raiding party in the game.  If you come under fire, you can always retreat and then come back later.  Unless they intend to burn x hundred thousand credits fortifying every single world, this would work quite well.

There is actually a use for targeting uplink, if you're spamming Lrms. I beleive you only need to have it at level one to outrange a Argonevs basic weaponry (not 100% on other SBs). It won't be insanely usefull, but can save losses when rushing a freshly built sb, or allow your Lrms to contribute to taking out repairbays/the SB itself when you have bombers going for a more upgraded SB.

i suppose the range does help, i forgot about that. but you still would never really need more than 1 akkan. its colonize ability really sux. i save 600 credits? maybe? progen and jarrasul are much better

Are we talking only about regular sins caps or can we talk about mod cap ships like bsg, 7 deadly sins and star wars?

someone made n3rull angry!

yeah... for someone I have never seen as highly vulgar, someone made him very angry indeed.  I'm just trying to figure out who/what did it...

True.  I do agree with you there.  The Advent caps synergize and the TEC caps are independent (minus Kol+Dunov).  The Vasari caps are just out-there.  They have by far the strangest abilities in the game and many of which aren't really all that helpful.  Balance mods are on a quest to fix the imbalance in the game and just recently we have had three people who have common sense begin mods of their own.  If the devs see the end result of those mods, they will hopefully change the game in a way that is beneficial to the community.  I'm working on a mod currently that while it is not focused on balance, I will try to fix some of the things this game is obviously doing wrong.  I'll make sure to take another look at the caps.

I also apologize for being wrong about Disintegration.  I genuinely thought that it did damage the hull directly, as damaging the shields doesn't make sense for a weapon like that.

I also know that caps aren't for damage dealing.  I'm just saying that it helps out.  If caps didn't do any damage at all, they would be far less effective.  Albeit not their primary role, covering fire is something caps do well.  I was also mentioning the PM's damage as it is a very large amount for PM's.  Also, you said 150 for the Marza.  That would only be at level 9-10.  I was talking level 5-6.  They deal about the same missile damage, although yes the Marza's is higher.  I just believe it is not that much different.

But as for MPA, it spreads the damage out.  By preventing them from taking another volley, it will save your SC.  Due to the cooldown of enemy ships, it would reduce the overall damage your SC take, and by spreading it, you allow your SC to regenerate while others are taking reduced poundings.  A flak frig cannot kill a Vasari SC in one volley.  For this reason it helps.  Even if they could, it would still help as it would shorten the duration, thus decreasing the damage dealt.

Really, I do agree with you on many cases, but I just don't see your point on Repair Cloud, Fighter Blink, and Volatile Nanites.  Power Surge is border line...  I like the ability as an 80% damage buff is very nice, but you are right on the shield regen.  It doesn't really do all that much for survivability.  I too calculated it out once and you are correct, it heals very little.  IMO, the Kortul would be significantly more useful if Power Surge healed more and increased damage a bit more.

Just curious, but would you deem Disintegration good if it did damage the hull directly?  Just curious as I am thinking about giving it a damage nerf but making it ignore shields for my mod...

Well, hopefully I'll be able to post without "Forums Go Boom" happening again, but its happened on my few posts so...

30 HP/sec for 10 seconds isn't bad at all.  That's like a repair bay operating on your entire army for ten seconds. 
Yeah, shield restore totally outclasses it, but SR is one of the game's very best abilities.  Microphasing aura is serously underestimated, and is actually quite a solid passive ability that's particularly useful in fighter vs fighter dogfights.  Categorizing replicate forces with scramble bombers is inappropriate; scramble is the weakest ability in the game by a longshot, and nothing comes close.  Replicate is below average, but still has its uses.

Seeing as Vasari basically end up using carrier-based strategies in the late game and the Skirantra is the only Vasari capital ship that buffs fighters and bombers, it's a solid choice.

The Vulk is basically an armoured super-siege frigate.  You can use it like you should be able to use siege frigates to threaten enemy border planets and force them to either split their fleet or sink money in static defenses.  You don't use it for its combat abilities, although disintigration is worth adding to if only as a self-heal on a ship that may be frequently flying solo deep in enemy territory.

Although I will agree it's underpowered, I will also add that it's underrated.  Phase out hull does have several practical uses even if most of its theoretical uses never happen.  Subversion has a wickedly long duration and can essentially shut down construction at an enemy's forward base.  Distort gravity can bypass PJI's; obviously that's not important against enemies who don't use them, but against someone who does it's invaluable.  The Antorak's ultimate ability is probably one of the strongest in the game, effectively giving you access to the primary effect of the Vasari superweapon.  Combined with distort gravity to get into position, your fleet can attack your enemy anywhere, then use the same ability to retreat back the way you came.  Subversion leaves a chain of sentries to warn of approaching enemies and shuts down reinforcement production nearby.  A very solid combination.  If the Antorak can reach high levels, it goes from a silly single-purpose (disruption) cap to an awesome multi-purpose one. 

It's still the weakest Vasari capital ship because it's the hardest to use and still not great until the very high levels, but on the other hand it's regularly underestimated.

Volatile Nanites are pretty awesome.  Obviously if you compare to missile barrage you're going to be disappointed, but compared to other ultimates (cleansing brilliance, anyone?) this is a pretty solid and devastating ability.  Hard to use and requires good timing, but very powerful.  Otherwise the Kortul is nothing more than a collection of average but uninspiring abilities.  It's an average capital ship, which is neither good nor bad.

The problem I see is that people always compare to the Evacuator, Progenitor, and Marza when evaluating how good a capital ship is.  The problem, as was mentioned, is that these capital ships overshadow everything else.  Repair cloud doesn't stuck, it's just overshadowed by shield restore.  Volatile nanite doesn't suck, it's just overshadowed by missile barrage.  The Vasari capital ships (evacuator excluded, obviously) are emblematic of the game's "average" capital ships.  They don't stack up to the game's best, but they're solid and respectable at what they do.

Ship to ship: Radiance is the best hands down.

As for the vasari caps; the egg is useful at the start and later because of its planet vortex and nano disassembler.

The Kortul is the best thing the vasari have versus strikecraft and one of the hardest ships to kill due to distruptive strikes and power surge.

Antorak gets useful if it can get to higher levels, but sins is a combat game and a raiding ship doesn't really fit in.

Skirantra is useful almost exclusively for repair cloud and the highly situational replicate forces.

The vulkoras is a big siege frigate, and thats about it

I'm not gonna respond to all your posts because you all basically confirmed my statement .

Anyway:

Repair Cloud does 'stuck' .

• It 'stucks' as a fleet healer, because you can only apply it to ships that are heavily beaten. Shields absorb damage from the first point taken to the last hit point in the ship's hull (unless under phase missile fire, but it still takes massive shield restoration and huge shield-to-hull point ratio to actually kill something with shields still present) while restoring hull points only helps when ships are close to death. This limits the use of this ability, because there's usually only one ship being beaten to the point of losing all shields.
• The 30 hp/s healing is not enough to save the ship from MB or CB or starbase fire, so being AOE is not really helpful.
• That said, it lasts 10 seconds for 100AM. Drains-you-dry.
• It is only useful for healing strikecraft, but then again, strikecraft won't survive long enough to wipe the enemy fleet before the Skirantra is out of AM to keep them going. Remember the cooldown on fighters/bombers' weapons is like 8-10 seconds. So the AM reserves on Skirantra are about enough to keep the strikecraft alive for, maybe, 4-5 weapon salvos.

So - Repair Cloud is a good, micro intensive ability that helps you keep your strikecraft alive for 30-ish seconds into the battle.
As a fleet healer, it's lul.

Volatile Nanites is overshadowed both by MB and Malice-CB (CB triggers Malice. If Vasari had something that could quickly blow up 10-15 ships, like CB, it would make Vol Nans great. Sadly, they don't have anything like that, except a squadron of 6 Vulkoras' with 3/3 PMS each... lol).
So it's basically heavily overshadowed by all other crowd control abilities out there ^^ which means it sucks.
When you look at the Enforcer, you will see that it's so good - it has so much hull and shields and guns and w00t and reintegration. Yay. But then you compare it to other HCs (and illums lol) and see that it is worse, it's ability is worse, it's overpriced, its weapon upgrades are on a sadistically high tech level (and thus much more expensive and take much more time to make).
Everything is relative.
Being noticeably worse than every counterpart available to other races means that this thing sucks.

Along that line, when you have one über ship, one good planet cracker and three 'average' ships (as in - way below the other two) then why would you bother taking them.
Then, when you know they're not a valid choice to start with, they're not a valid choice at all, because only the biggest games ever see a second or third cap being fielded (with scarce exceptions of two-egg starts or vulkoras spams, which don't help this argument at all).

all of this matters not, when compared to the nano-dissembler of the Egg.

You take your level 10 Kortul and put it against my level 10 egg and I will take yours down before you take down my egg.  This is a battle with no other ships or factors determining an outcome.  The nano-disembler ability bypasses your shields and immediately eats your hull points down at a rate that you cannot regenerate them to save yourself.  Trust me, the Kortul is nice, but nothing in this game can match an Egg that is run properly.  Ask any old pro that knows anything of the game and they will agree with this statement.