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General Discussion / Re: Carriers
« on: October 27, 2019, 03:16:41 AM »But isn't the point that it used to be a freighter, having lost it's storage space to make room for a fighter factory.
They are the quintessential makeshift warship.
Yep. Every Condor originally started out as a Tarsus. And eventually the conversion became so common Tarsus hulls were converted while still under construction essentially creating a new derived class.
This is why Condor has worst stats than the Tarsus for almost everything, it is sacrificing part of literally every ability in order to carry fighters in the same space that used to be cargo/engines/etc.
It's not supposed to be "good". It's supposed to be "good enough".
And the metric you're using to quantify that is; "can it get fighters into battle?"