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by Huillam » Fri, 23. Sep 22, 01:41
I would disagree on that last statement. Overall the non capital ships would be great player ship due to their high speed but at the same time they do trade a lot of firepower for that speed (and absurd survivability). Thanks to SCHs replacing losses for M3s (and to a lesser extent M6s) isn't much of an issue and the increased survivability isn't, in my opinion, worth the loss of firepower (especially as Kyon Emitters can't be mass-produced) for player owned ships that aren't actively played.
The R (if I'm not mistaked that's the one with 12 main guns) has a huge burst damage while the G has excellent sustained damage but, and then again it's totally subjective, not worth the cost: I could get enough money to buy a Pteranodon or a Tyr which would have the advantages of both (minus the speed) in a fraction of the time it would take my PHQ to build one of those.
While the T and the V have the best mix of total shield and shield generator (by a really small margin), their true defense come from their insane hull: While Litcube has my eternal gratitude for the changes in LU regarding hull tanking that's still not something that I'd do on purpose. In term of DPS, those ships only shine because of their Gamma Kyon Emitters but still lack the versatility of terran capital ships and without those GKE they'd come a slight loss of anti-capital dps when weighted against M2+. The smaller size is indeed great but aside from the cool factor the size of M2+ come with many technical issues that make the game less enjoyable.
Finally, considering their insane damage output, I'd probably have to break the game to survive long enough to scan of those (during my test I simply set the minimum shield value to scan to 100% which made things insanely easier than they'd be in a normal playthrough).
Now and as that was slightly off topic, I'll stop there. I'd like to add that this is not a complaint nor a request. I fully respect your decision (and still love your mod even if it doesn't allow me to scan OCV ships), I simply took that opportunity to share my feelings regarding OCV ships.