'Traits' 4 Veteran Ships (Select Priority by Template)

I'd rename the Vodyani one to Faithful, or another religious term. I'm also unsure if they'd be willing to go that far down the micro-rabbit hole with at least ten options, given their resistance to micro in all other facets of the game. That said, the "core four" could still work without being too disruptive.

Romeo wrote:

I'd rename the Vodyani one to Faithful, or another religious term.

Good idea.  Are there other faction-specific modules?  I haven't played as lumeris yet, but haven't noticed one for sophons or cravers, but I wasn't really looking out for it (although I guess there is what is called 'sophon free move')

 I'm also unsure if they'd be willing to go that far down the micro-rabbit hole with at least ten options, given their resistance to micro in all other facets of the game. That said, the "core four" could still work without being too disruptive.

Good point.  It's just a little dissatisfying to reap such broad benefits of leveling up, but I'd like that outcome too.  Give the navy a little more flavor.

I was thinking the specific trait gained from the 'training' would randomly result in one of the 'micro' options, or be automatically chosen based on what modules are actually present in the design.  

Hard to imagine crew getting a boost to shield defense without shields.  Perhaps a virtual training experience could account for such a thing, and while it may not, at first, appear to be of benefit to gain increased shield defense on a vessel, the unlocking of additional module slots could easily afford opportunity to take advantage of such a trait.  

I guess I hadn't previously thought that through, but I suppose that making an informed decision about how to upgrade a template would require some data on traits currently possessed by the ships in your fleets, just the number that possess it seems enough to me, though i'm not sure where it would fit in the gui, perhaps another tab in the military screen, which shows overall fleet composition, and beside each ship type, the number with a specific trait.

Gosh, that would easily get overwhelming, wouldn't it, with successive revisions to ship designs.

huh.  Yeah,  you're probably right, general bonuses would be great!

The "experience" a ship gets shouldn't translate to HP or Shield / Hull resistance or any other hardware based factor.

That has nothing to do with experience.

But I do see this as increasing accuracy, critical chance, evasion, patchwork repair on ship (repair 5% of damage taken for example apart from what the repair modules would give).

I wouldn't go into micro and just get those 4 factors increasing with each level.

ok, so the way I interpret that is "it's cleared for DLC!"

jk, but I still think it would add some intimacy to fleet management.