Ship size expansion

While I agree that it would be nice to have lots of free slots, I understand many of the reasons Amplitude limited it the way they did.  Frankly, to my mind the restrictions in this case are a good thing as they limit the amount of "cheese" builds and, believe it or not, encourage creativity by forcing the player to think outside of the box.

For this suggestion I did not include any drastic changes regarding slots that would fall outside the way it would affect the new ship hulls as I intended this idea to be focused solely on the new hulls.  I do plan on posting some slot related ideas (new modules, rework of slot numbers, new and reworked bonuses, etc.) in a separate idea post so stay tuned for that.  Additionally, you can always start a discussion about slots in the forum.

Suis3i wrote:

only addition would be a dedicated light carrier, one that is in the medium category but carries more fighters/bombers and is less focused on weapon modules. 

I like the idea of a dedicated light carrier in the medium ship size, with the bonuses of the Carrier. I will add that in with a suggested change to the current Coordinator type to be more focused on support modules with 0-1 fighter/bomber slots.

nigelton wrote:

I think  Dreadnought and Titan be bit overkill, and hard to balance, not only in space combat, but ground too, planets have too weak defence, in time big ships carry more manpower. 

I am going to assume you meant the "Super" sized ships and you meant Baseship instead of Dreadnought for this point.  On that point I do agree that balance would be a challenge for the Devs but I know they would be willing to work on it and, if recent history is our teacher, they would get it balanced out pretty well over time.  As far as the effect the "Super" ships would have on ground, that is already an issue that current builds have.  I have built "Small" ships that, when grouped (5 siege ships with 2 escorts), can cause 400+ siege damage per turn.  This tells me that the problem is already there and the larger ships would not add much to it, especially if the siege ship mods were not allowed on the "Super" ships.

Additionally, the "Super" ship sizes are intended to be very much late game, final measure type ships.  The would have enormous costs associated to them and very high cap costs so you could not field more than 1-2 in a fleet even with ALL of the cap bonuses.  To that end, they would bring tremendous benefits to the owner and deterents to their enemies, but if they were lost it could swing the tides of a war to the other side.

nigelton wrote:

Large Battleship very good idea, i don`t like carrier work as gun-boat,  like small/midd ships have two types by roles, large need diversity too.

My dissatisfaction with the current setup of the Carrier class hull type is actually what prompted me to start thinking about new ship sizes.  I don't like the idea of having large mounts on something designated as a carrier and would prefer to have another hull type intended for slug-fests.  As it happens, the above suggested Battleship was the first new hull type I came up with.

nigelton wrote:

Missile/Torpedo Barge be good too, this type of weapon need hard buff, or maybe make glass-cannon type ship, with good buff to overall dps, but easy to kill.

Yes, a glass-cannon is exactly what I had in mind with this ship type.