What if small ships jumped the farthest?

And you’ll never find any. Polonium on the other hand..

In any case, the mechanic itself is already in the game. Knowing FDEV, military fuel would probably be tritium.
Alternately, military fuel is regular hydrogen spiked with yttrium and polonium - i.e. by the 3300s ships can synthesize the recipe from raw ingredients if available.
 
There’s nothing actually wrong with the small ships, they have just become relics from a time when we had to save our credits to afford the bigger more expensive ships back when the galaxy made sense...

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The Vette is fine the way it is balanced against the other 2 big ships. It’s a warship, it should have greater firepower and maneuverability than the cutter or the anaconda. It doesn’t have the jump range or versatility of the anaconda, and it doesn’t have the speed, range, and cargo capacity of the cutter.

Sorry, you won't change my mind on this. Increase its range if that is an issue, although i'm not sure why any warship needs big range. Anaconda's range needs the nerf bat as well. The Cutter is the only ship with 2 huge hardpoints, so that's already a serious differentiator. I'm not saying make it type 9 or even Cutter manouverability, but i needs to be closer to the Anaconda than the Eagle.
 
Sorry, you won't change my mind on this. Increase its range if that is an issue, although i'm not sure why any warship needs big range. Anaconda's range needs the nerf bat as well. The Cutter is the only ship with 2 huge hardpoints, so that's already a serious differentiator. I'm not saying make it type 9 or even Cutter manouverability, but i needs to be closer to the Anaconda than the Eagle.
Corvette, the Corvette has 2 Huge Hardpoints and manuverablilty.
 
The Conda has slightly more firepower then the Corvette by the way (145 to 127 fixed multi dps), and a better convergence on the huge and larges.
It's just declassed by the three c7internals.

Its an interesting point, although its one that doesn't take into consideration target size. Against large targets, the Corvette has the edge.
 
Its an interesting point, although its one that doesn't take into consideration target size. Against large targets, the Corvette has the edge.
Not with Plasma Accelerators ;)
Or, yes it has, but not because it does more damage, but because it can take more punishment.
 
Corvette might have a crap jump range, but it has much better supercruise agility which means it's the best at interdictions when compared to Cutter and Anaconda.
 
One could argue that’s sort of already in game via the synthesized fuel you can use on your FSD. It’s a non-scoopable fuel that greatly enhances your jump range. You even have the regular FSD to fall back on should you run out of the non-scoopable fuel.
Nah.... the big difference is you still have infinite total range exploitation because you can still refuel with a scoop. Military drives you could only refuel at stations.

This is a critical point, because there's a school of thought that if you introduced a new FSD with, say, 100LY range, that it would just be more power creep. But if that jump range meant you also couldn't go further than 500Ly from a station, then it won't get considered in that.
 
What gets me is this is 3306 yet compute advancements just stopped in 2020, I mean flight computers from 2020 are FAR better than what is in 3306...and we are just a bunch of semi-evolved chimps still bound to our organic space craft hurdling metal bricks to neighbor planets to gather information. So not too impressed with these 3306 civilizations. Sure they have FSDs but used on some bobo compute tech that we surpassed in the 90s. ;)
 
What gets me is this is 3306 yet compute advancements just stopped in 2020, I mean flight computers from 2020 are FAR better than what is in 3306...and we are just a bunch of semi-evolved chimps still bound to our organic space craft hurdling metal bricks to neighbor planets to gather information. So not too impressed with these 3306 civilizations. Sure they have FSDs but put on some bobo compute tech that we surpassed in the 90s. ;)
With the size of the units... I'd be more inclined they got stuck in the 40's...
 
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