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You also need to add support for universal slots, OPs, and hullmods.
I love this editor a ton. 
I can't wait to redo some ships with tons of Universal slots, awesomeness.
Well, on the Apogee, it is 9 OP to reduce the shield cost be 210 flux/second! It is useful some of the time, and on some ships. Do not doubt the Shield Stabilizer.
For me, the choice is pretty clear. I accept FTL and other stuff because it makes sci fi in a traditional sense possible. I don't accept star fighters because I don't think they're necessary and I think they're /too/ unrealistic. I don't have any hate for anyone who thinks otherwise, and, as I said, if you WANT star fighters, fine. Just accept that they make no sense-- as opposed to less sense, like a battleship would be.
I took an onslaught, stuffed tons of defense related hullkods, and put on only a bunch of mortars and flak cannons, and a few other cheap things. it was surprisingly effective, and actually managed to kill another onslaught which had gone a weapons heavy route. going to try a paragon next.
i failed Latin in 7th grade.. use Engrish.
How about an overclocker module that increases weapon rate of fire (and possibly other things) at the cost of 50% more flux from weapons. There are actually some ships that have too much flux venting capability to use effectively with their low-flux weapons.
I'll just keep dreaming that eventually one of these games offer option to re-fit whole hardpoints - for a cost ofcourse.
Let's say for example you find a nice Cruiser with a fixed large energy weapon pointing straight forward and bunch of medium 270 degree arc energy turrets. Take your Cruiser to a station with shipyard that can change the layout to a medium 180 degree forward turret mount of your chosen weapon type and change some original turret mounts to fixed arc medium missile bays, for example.
So changing hardpoint type ballistic/energy/missile would be just matter of cost, adding turret would make large hardpoint>medium&medium>small with arc based on the hardpoint's position (so a fixed forward mounted gun couldn't turn 360 degrees because it'd actually collide with the hull around it) or otherway around remove turret making the hardpoint bigger. Maybe even base the turret slot's price on how big firing angle you want for it.
So that way you could have a fleet of ships with same hull, but totally different layout&combat role.
So much fun.
In my opinion this is actually a huge problem. There should be a certain amount of catharsis from carnage, but as it is now, players are walking on egg shells. Even single ship losses can be catastrophic. Even if you win, you still lose. You lose with fan-fair. That's fine to a degree, but I think players should enjoy combat, rather than dread it.
If you won but most of your fleet was destroyed, where should you be?:
1. near dead, basically back at the beginning again only now with more supplies then you know what to do with.
2. hurt, your fleet size has shrunk visibly.
3. singed, you repaired some of yours and your enemies neutralized craft, most of your crew are dead, but you have lots of hardware.
4. fine, you repaired most of your craft and you took your pick from your enemies.
5. but you won, your fleet just doubled in size.
Right now it's at 1.
I think fun would be at somewhere between 3 and 4.
I'm still looking for a way to mod the scrap rate of craft. It looks like it may be something I can't change.
if u read the wiki u linked... it refers to em as heavily armed cruisers or hevy cruisers = battlecruisers
besides those are way bigger than destroyers of the same navy...
and considering most cruisers in the game have medium mounts not large ones... u cant balance having destroyer with several large guns... maby 1 without any other turrets or slots... and missing shield generators...
its called battle cruiser...
I'd also love to see a new panzerschiff/"pocket battleship" class of ships that are faster than anything bigger, and outgun anything smaller. These would be destroyer-sized hulls with large mounts instead of medium, low crew requirements and cargo capacity, and higher-than-average fuel capacity.
My problem with this is how on earth do you balance this sort of ship? Because a large destroyer type ship with multiple large mounts would be super powerful. Hmm, tough one.
you had no marines lol, are you gonna send in your fry cook to capture a ship?
Edit: O: oh my you DID have marines, silly me!
I'd argue that it will distract from fleet management. It's annoying to have to manage fluff like +2 broadsword of rareness. Just let me throw some lasers on my frigate and move on. There's enough to do.
It seems the more intact armor segments, the higher likelihood it will be boardable.
lol
