Per Ship Jump Engines

[Beersatron (OP)]

Would it be feasible to have a jump engine that is designed to jump the one ship?

I would quite regularly just have the one ship flying around and it seems a waste to have this jump engine that can open a portal for 3 ships when you could save some space for more Razzle magazines

So, atm the smallest squadron size is 3, you could say that is the most cost effect way of producing them at the start of the tech tree and a single ship jump engine would cost 50% and use 50% of the space (so it isn't a direct correlation of a third).

The issue would then be that if you did group these ships together into a TG, would you be able to jump them as one fleet or have to split them up -> jump -> regroup them on the other side?

[Father Tim]

Steve deliberately made jump engines large, expensive, inefficient, and squadron-capable because he didn't want hordes of single ships flying around, jumping willy-nilly, and generally being blub*-like intead of being deployed in batle groups.  Given that he added smaller-than-15-HS jump engines after repeated requests, you might get the single-ship version you're looking for but why not just use SM mode to double your race's jump engine efficiency and pretend that their max squadron size is one?


*blub here refers to some other 4X game where every ship is jump-, hyper-, or FTL-capable