Take a look at the Drengin's abilities in the Report. Maybe he has a miniaturisation bonus. I cannot built this ship with a minaturization score of 25% (the same as the Drengin
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I'll just add that, like Sinnod I have looked at a ship that i was simply unable to replicate with equivalent or higher tech - in my case it was also a frigate, but with 3 superior deflectors and 9 laser V's. I know of only one building that increases miniaturization, and that's a galactic wonder which hadn't been built at the time. I've never encountered anomalies that give miniaturization bonuses, nor have i seen planets with that sort of bonus. T
What sort of bonuses do anomalies give that can result in this sort of disparity in ship designs? I've had the same thing happen to me and i still don't know what the cause was.
Playing a game on painful difficulty, i was in a war with the Yor after just recently shifting everything into research, catching up and slightly surpassing them. The war isn't going well, but i'm at least able to fend off their early fighter fleets - then these monstrous frigates appear that have *9*laser V's, 3 superior deflectors and it looks like impulse 3 drives (I had espionage high enough to be able to read off its stats). Remember - i'm actua