In my experience with mod ships that rely on built-in weapons, they tend to be the most boring ones. I hope not to see any more of them in the base game.
I see people suggesting low tech elite frigate, but that kinda goes against the whole idea behind low tech. Unless we give it Phase Skimmer it's going to get bullied by everything. Same as Vanguard which was supposed to be the elite frigate. Unfortunately armour stats demand much higher numbers if one hopes to stay alive in bigger fights.
Just make it cheat, in a similar manner to Paragon. Paragon would be absolutely pathetic, if it did not have ATC instead of ITU. Odyssey would be subpar, if it didn't have almost destroyer-tier mobility.
A "command destroyer" with built-in Operations Center. Flagship for those who don't want to fly a ship.
A ship whose entire point is to not be ever seen... Just take any random civilian ship and slap Operation Center on it. At least David's time won't be wasted.
I've been thinking about making a mod that would just add actually good loadouts to the game since many enemy loadouts are just not at all optimal, and enemy fleets with proper loadouts and S-mods. Have fun actually facing some of the ones that chew through Ordos under AI control.
Second Wave Options mod adds better AI loadouts, but it also adds a lot of other stuff. For s-mods you will need to get crafty, since it needs to be scripted and iirc for enemies it's just "s-mod random mods, autofit to use the freed OP". Hopefully I'm wrong and it's possible to exercise more control over them.
Huh, now that I think about it, destroyer lineup really ends suddenly. Average DP cost is 10 I guess and the most "elite" ships are Manticore and Medusa at 12 DP. I know Harbinger is 20 but all phase ships are more expensive relative to their size class.
For comparison, the cheapest combat frigate is 2 DP (if you consider Kite to be a pure combat frigate) or 4 DP (if you would rather consider Lasher the cheapest combat frigate) and the most expensive non-hyperion frigate is 300%/100% more expensive. The cheapest combat cruiser is 14 DP, the most expensive non-phase combat cruiser is 114% more expensive. The cheapest combat capital ship is 35 DP, the most expensive non-phase combat capital ship is 71% more expensive
And the cheapest combat destroyer is at 9 DP, the Enforcer, while the most expensive non-phase non-carrier combat destroyer is 33% more expensive. Even Drover is just 56% more expensive than Enforcer. Destroyers have a very narrow DP range, unlike other ship sizes.
-35-60DP High Tech, decent mobility Battlecruisers. Would be nice if their total armament wasn't anything impressive but it featured some Universal mounts for them to be highly customizable
Odydo yessey