The miniaturized guide to miniaturization
Doing some research of my own, found a few questions about miniaturization and not many answers (none that I could find), so a couple of hours of research and testing later …. Here it is.
Each of your miniaturization tecks adds to a total pool of a miniaturization bonus. This bonus is applied to your hulls space i.e. A "medium" hull ship has a base size of 38. With 25% miniaturization (Enhanced miniaturization) it will have a new hull size of 47 (38x1.25=47.5)
I think that was pretty basic, let’s go on
Where some peoples problem comes from is that sometimes the space your components (engines, weapons ect) takes up, is more than before you got your miniaturization tecks. Well they do. The space your hull components take up is a multiplier of your hull size, so if you increase your hull size your components may take up more room (but you will have heaps of extra room from the miniaturization process, so whatever)
Using the same case as the one above
When equipping an Ion drive to a Medium hull, with zero miniaturization, the ion drive will take up 7 spaces but with 25% miniaturization the same ion drive will take up 8 spaces, so much for making things smaller eh?
The math
The base size of an Ion drive is 4+9% of hull size, so when your hull gets bigger …. So does the stuff
Base size of component = c
Final component size = C
Hull size = H
Hull size modifier = h
h x H + c = C
9% x 47 +c = C
4.23 + 4 = C
8.23 = C
If you replace the 47 (hull size with 25% miniaturization) with 38 then you will come up with 7.42 (seems to round down always)
Well I hope that helps some of you out their that are tweaking there warships to the nth degree (that is what was looking into myself)
my info comes from https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Miniaturization
and the Galactopedia https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=162&AID=105605
