Now I have been playing for a short while but I have many mods installed with hundreds of different ships and something I noticed is that similar sized ships can have wildly different max speed.
I am going to talk about capital ships since they are the most noticeable but in some mods when chasing another fleeing enemy ship one of three things happens:(the two ships are both capitals and similarly sized)
- The ship is slow and the enemy ship flees
- They have the same speed and the enemy ship blows up or flees
- The ship is faster and the enemy ship blows up.
Now I know that not all ships will go the same speed but when you have two ships that are almost the same and one goes lets say 50 and the other goes 10 something is wrong with that picture.
Now fiddling with a capital ship's speed I found that for the bigger capitals their max speed should be no less then 25 but no more then 50. And for the smaller capitals their max speed should be no less then ~45 but no more then 70.
For their turning speed a good number I found, for the most part there are outliers, is half their max speed or no more then 25.
Also if you look through the starsector wiki most capitals have a max speed ~30 with a few that go ~50 and and one that can go 70.
I used console commands to give myself all the hulls (1451 ships) and for the most part have a max speed in the ranges I gave above. Out of the ~75 or so I checked most have a speed of ~30 with a few >45 or <20 with one that had a max speed of 9. With the few super capitals with a max speed of ~20 which seems resonable.
The reason I bring this up is that these are warships and as such need to have a speed that makes them viable in battle. If your ship cannot go fast enough to attack the enemy then its a waste of a ship.The whole point of having a warship is to be roughly equal to or greater then your enemy ship. Not less then.
Edit: Is there Max speed list or ship class data list that states what data ships should have so that we don't end up with ships that don't meet their class rating?