Wait. I realised something disturbing....
I'm trying to do a pure Star Fed playthrough. As in : Only Star Fed ships, weapons and fighters.
And I realised that some of the average Fed ships ARE NOT compatible with the weapons of their Faction.
The Star Fed is mainly an energy based faction, with only 3 balistic weapons, and some of its ships can't equip the majority of the weapons, if any.
Here is a list of Base line ships (aka those you can find on the market) with this problem, I'm not including super ships or variants :
The worst offenders, almost entirelly useless with only Star Fed weapons :
- The Perseverance : all small weapons are balistic, the medium and large are balistic or composite.
- The Resolute : Only balistic mount.
- The Brava : All ballistic, and one small composite at the back.
- The Hirondelle : 4 ballistic and 2 composites.
Those are less hit by the ballistic problem, but it is still felt :
- The Kestrel : the last change before the 0.97 has gutted this poster boy. The four small front weapons are left empty and the two medium on the side are left for the most useless part of the Fed arsenal. And it has the Build in Fed mod to boost energy weapons.
- The Emerillon : One of the least hit with the problem, the two front small point can not be filled with Fed weapons.
- The Cormorant : the 3 small mounts are ballistic, and the medium composite can't really compensate for it. I'm not so critical on the medium balistic since this ship is more of a missile platform, so the scrapshots actually work for it.
- The Brane : 2 of the small hard points are useless, but the medium and synergy point can pull the weight.
- The Byte : 2 useless small balistic.
This make 9 out of 21 baseline combats ships that do not benefit from their faction weaponry one way or another.
And it's bugging me...