



If you're still worried about capital ships, you'll probably always want to start with either a Marza or an Akkan depending on how aggressive you want to get: Akkans should always get colonize and ion bolt (targetting uplink is fairly worthless unless you're planning on using it for starbase sniping with Ogrevs or you're up against a lot of abilities that decrease hit chance), while Marzas should be getting always get bombs, but the other ability to max is up to you. Advent is generally the race where ability usage is the most important. I'd probably say that your lategame performance has more to do with either faulty macro (you aren't getting your economy to a high enough level) or bad fleet composition (LRM's, Hoshikos, and carriers are your best friends) than simply choosing bad capital ship abilities. TEC in general put much more emphasis on raw cost-effectiveness than ability usage, especially lategame.
