I know for game balancing issues that the components change size with hull size but its still a big pet peeve of mine. The AI is or being held to be the greatest AI around for gaming, and truthfully I believe it does a superb job.

I just can't see my Electronics Chief coming up to me and stating that system A (which is small) does the same job as system B (which is electronically a copy of A only bigger), but due to the f act we are classifed as a large hull we have to install system B.

I have always held to the belief that miniaturization by increasing the hull size is a radical and super idea as your only having to change size on one object vice hundreds... however, you lose the brownie points by having a super idea when you go back and increase the size of components anyways due to hull type.

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Suralle Straykat
Kat Lord @ Large

I just can't see my Electronics Chief coming up to me and stating that system A (which is small) does the same job as system B (which is electronically a copy of A only bigger), but due to the f act we are classifed as a large hull we have to install system B.

Well, I think it depends on the system. If your system was a life support system, you'd expect it to be bigger to accomodate the larger crew and larger environment, and if it was an engine, it'd have to be bigger to move a larger mass.

Defence techs would be bigger to accomodate the larger area one has to defend on a big ship (increase in circumference of shields, larger target means more point defence to cover the whole ship, larger surface area for armor), but weapons you'd expect to remain the same size no matter what.

And for all of the above, you wouldn't expect them to get any bigger if miniturisation created more space for components, which means, I feel, that module sizes should be tied to hull type and not size.

I've noticed what I think is a bug regarding Huge vessels and miniaturization. In my current game, I have a 170ish Huge hull, and a Mass Driver, which is stated to have a size of 12, only has a size of 6. BUT! It requires 12 places to be placed. Since there are no items smaller than 5, I always have about 4 excess points. Why is this happening?

I've also seen it a couple of times. After researching one of the Miniaturization techs my new design was using less space (than stated) for each component. I could create mega-powerful ships and quickly conquered the whole galaxy

Honestly, I think a better way to do things would be to fix the size of components for each hull type instead of hull size so that a Huge Hull's engines would always be the same size regardless of miniturisation's bonuses to hull size.

Do you have any idea what that would do to the game? It'd make miniturization techs God, make any weapon but lasers worthless, and make any ship above medium size utterly useless.

I've also seen it a couple of times. After researching one of the Miniaturization techs my new design was using less space (than stated) for each component. I could create mega-powerful ships and quickly conquered the whole galaxy

That may have been the "Upgrade" bug that was supposedly fixed in 1.11. If you upgraded a ship in 1.1, it didn't take hull size into account when determine component size. So you could make very powerful large ships.