I like to share my "what I am playing" status in steam. So I do not have to write all my friends, "wanna play with me?" They automatically see what I am doing and may join me if they are excited.

Still, I think such a feature should be optional.
I personally will keep it enabled.

Make very unit able to shoot to ground/air from Transports (Percival Ghettos incoming)

Is there a formula to have an equal and fair recharge rate across factions?

I don't mind if cybran is faster recharging their shields.
UEF has a longer timeout before recharging.
Aeon has a slow recharg but nearly no timeout.
some uniqueness, or so whatever.

But there should be a common ground like "1k HP should take ~30 seconds and has a 5-second cooldown"

submerge T2 TD and give cybrans T3 TD cloak -kappa

They are built more quickly. When I try to emergency defend something: I build T1 stuff.

In all other points I agree with you T2 > T1 but to think one step further, the HARMS (cyb-T3-troplauncher) is also superior in every way.

I do not exactly understand why this is "unbalanced" in your opinion. https://forum.faforever.com/topic/759/balance-thread-guidelines may help you to clarify this.

on 4v4, it is a common practice to share techs in order to get the "best from each cake". Indeed Cybran sucks with shielding but has various other (mostly offensive) stength.

So new meta will always be first Air now?
Still, If we modify the "risk vs value" odds it may become less frustrating because you know the enemy has committed into the bomber and invested a lot of resources that he is missing now.

I think it should be possible to have "first bomber" a valid strategy that have to be considered.

Still, I agree with Blodir playing against those are very annoying.
But as Femboy said (in a rude way): It is very possible to counter this with intel and intie quickly.

In my opinion, the bomber may need to get "less frustrating" instead of "weaker".
And to do so: Increase cost to make it a tougher risk vs value calculation for the attacker.

Still, the Laser locking on the ACU while the Transport was sucked in looked hilarious!

What I did with the GC: I right-clicked the ACU several times while it was loading.

Not sure if the transport ship was captured by the Claws, but it may seem so.
Beam kept locked on ACU, that looked very wired.

@maudlin27 good point! So the rate may scale with max shieldHPs.

Is there a formula to have an equal and fair recharge rate across factions?

I don't mind if cybran is faster recharging their shields.
UEF has a longer timeout before recharging.
Aeon has a slow recharg but nearly no timeout.
some uniqueness, or so whatever.

But there should be a common ground like "1k HP should take ~30 seconds and has a 5-second cooldown"

Yes, don't use realtive paths in the Startup commands, this got me twice, too

Maybe someone with editorial permissions adds this information to the Wiki?