So i had the idea today to have a ships speed and HP decrease as you add more modules to a ship, leading to the idea that a ship might be better if you don't spend all of your tonnage.



This way the differences between two races tonnage would be buffered to an extent.

- Physically correct would be an acceleration decrease, top speed in space would be the same. But yes, different ship speeds sound good.

- I don't get the point of HP decrease, this depends on the hull.



Your overall idea of buff/debuff on tonnage usage is good, but there could be balancing issues that make game design more complicated. Maybe a little too late for release and issue of a later patch.

Yeah, at this point everything people suggest is going to be after the games release unless it is a UI type of change.



And maybe the HP decrease was a little far, (The idea was to get people to stop using full weapon destroyers).



But i would love to see the speed one.