Range of ships

[Tycan Erah'lav]

If all Capital ships have a fleet presence of 1000, all freighters a presence of 100 and all fighters of 10, then should all fighters cost the same and the choice be for purely RP reasons. Or else should there not be a grading system, say the price of the ship divided by 1000 becomes it's fleet presence?

[Tycan Erah'lav]

Perhaps even a general list of fighters (like we have troops) and then allowing people to choose something to personalise. Like fighters being X credits and providing Y fleet presence vs. interceptors that cost more, have less presence per cost but have an advantage over fighters. I just don't see the point in buying any of the expensive fighters when buying a cheap one gives exactly the same stats in a battle.

[Sankichi Samaya]

I think this does make sense, as a personal opinion from a mod.

I think both ideas would work, one being more ismple than the other. However, I guess there are some things to think about. If everything was the same price, everything would have to be of equal fighting value. Also, that would make upgrading weapons systems faulty... Especially since everything has a different weapons range.
So, on that note, we could just go with the second system, in the way of fighters.
I don't think it'd be good to that system with bigger ships, though, because they're too personal and such. So, I think we could do this for fighters to make them simpler and possibly cheaper, but I think we should continue with the system we have for bigger ships.

[Tycan Erah'lav]

I think fighters can be more personal, there's a wider range and even to look at the movies, the X-wing is always associated with Skywalker and vice-versa. On bigger ships, I think there should be somewhat more than a grading system. As it stands both a CR90 corvette and a super star destroyer count as a fleet presence of 1000. Honestly, anyone want to tell me a blockade runner could take on an Executor?

I'd suggest to have fighters/freighters/other more personal ships be equal to their price divided by 1000, a squadron of such being 10 of those ships (perhaps buying a squadron should yield a higher fleet presence - more powerful working together, or else be cheaper - for buying in bulk). Then have the larger ships sub-divided, so there'd be corvettes, cruisers, heavy cruisers etc with every ship in a certain class being counted as equal, and then just choosing what cruiser you'd like the most for personal reasons. Remains relatively simple but balances out much better.

[Sankichi Samaya]

Okay, I think you have a good sense of what you're talking about, here. I agree with you, now I'm getting Seph on the job to look this up. Thank you, Tyc!

[Taisho Techimaru]

That is a very good point and i think it works, i'll talk with eaon and set that up. thanks for bringing this up. *tips hat*


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