In another thread in the main forum there was talk of how out of line some ships base stats are. One prime example being the Annaconda with its ridiculous low hull mass compared to its armour Hitpoints. Another being the T9 which is woefully lacking in armour given its mass. So being a beardtard engineer IRL, I took the numbers in the current version of EDCD's up to date coriolis shipyard website, put them into a spreadsheet modelling hull armour HitPoints VS Hull Mass and worked out average HP/Tonne and retrospectively applied that to all ships. I've done this both ways so in one column I'm bringing the mass inline with what the current armour value multiplied by the average coefficient of HP/Tonne is, and in another column I've brought their armour inline with the average hit points per tonne against their current mass.
The eureka moment and the basis of my idea that I am presenting here as a suggestion is that the game would benefit from players being able to chose a lightweight or a reinforced frame for their ships hull onto which they would then fit the bulkheads of lightweight alloy or military grade composites or reactive armour or what ever. A hidden benefit of this is that it would at a stroke double the amount of hull types available, and more importantly pave the way for nerfing shield boosters as has been beta'd twice now. If you gave the big ships like cutters and corvettes more armour HP inline with their mass, and add mass to the conda keeping its current HP, it would make it more feasible to nerf stacking shield boosters.
Going with my spreadsheet the data would suggest that a Conda Lightweight would be 698HP armour / 400T where as a Conda Reinforced would be 945HP / 541T. A Corvette with a lightweight frame would be 666HP / 381T and a corvette Reinforced Frame would be 1571HP / 900T and a Cutter light weight would be 720HP / 412T and finally a Cutter Reinforced Frame would be 1920HP / 1100T. Yes the cutter and Corvette would have more strength in their hull, but so they should as they are military ships and require hard earned ranks and lots more credits to buy them, where as the conda is a civilian ship and the cheapest of the big 3.
This is a screenshot of the spreadsheet...
And heres a link to it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...qsWKlbG8mY15vV9X6N6jZBl9yo/edit#gid=708326601
Basically what you see in the image, plus two other tabs one each for light weight and reinforced framed versions of the hull. These are pairings of the higher values of mass and HP for reinforced and the lower pair of values per ship as the lightweight version.
The eureka moment and the basis of my idea that I am presenting here as a suggestion is that the game would benefit from players being able to chose a lightweight or a reinforced frame for their ships hull onto which they would then fit the bulkheads of lightweight alloy or military grade composites or reactive armour or what ever. A hidden benefit of this is that it would at a stroke double the amount of hull types available, and more importantly pave the way for nerfing shield boosters as has been beta'd twice now. If you gave the big ships like cutters and corvettes more armour HP inline with their mass, and add mass to the conda keeping its current HP, it would make it more feasible to nerf stacking shield boosters.
Going with my spreadsheet the data would suggest that a Conda Lightweight would be 698HP armour / 400T where as a Conda Reinforced would be 945HP / 541T. A Corvette with a lightweight frame would be 666HP / 381T and a corvette Reinforced Frame would be 1571HP / 900T and a Cutter light weight would be 720HP / 412T and finally a Cutter Reinforced Frame would be 1920HP / 1100T. Yes the cutter and Corvette would have more strength in their hull, but so they should as they are military ships and require hard earned ranks and lots more credits to buy them, where as the conda is a civilian ship and the cheapest of the big 3.
This is a screenshot of the spreadsheet...
And heres a link to it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...qsWKlbG8mY15vV9X6N6jZBl9yo/edit#gid=708326601
Basically what you see in the image, plus two other tabs one each for light weight and reinforced framed versions of the hull. These are pairings of the higher values of mass and HP for reinforced and the lower pair of values per ship as the lightweight version.
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