Posted by: Iranon
« on: November 11, 2017, 07:31:44 AM »Unfortuntely, things can become quite gamey if you play with the restrictions in mind.
I may actually want a sensor pod consisting of nothing but a huge sensor and 1 layer of armour, and this would allow me to build practically any ship of the same size or smaller (except, ironically, a sensor pod with a different sensor).
But tooling all shipyards for something consisting of the most expensive things you can make (usually hardened beam fire controls, sensors for civilian designs) and never retooling them ever again is just cheap.
I may actually want a sensor pod consisting of nothing but a huge sensor and 1 layer of armour, and this would allow me to build practically any ship of the same size or smaller (except, ironically, a sensor pod with a different sensor).
But tooling all shipyards for something consisting of the most expensive things you can make (usually hardened beam fire controls, sensors for civilian designs) and never retooling them ever again is just cheap.