Somehow the failure rate always ends up somewhere north of 25%, even after adding as man engineering spaces as possible, unless I cut down on what's in the ship. So I guess I would want to know a few things:
1. What's an acceptable failure rate?
2. Is there any way to decrease the failure rate other than by using engineering spaces, without making the smallest ship possible?
And third, how is my design?
Prick class Corvette 2,000 tons 198 Crew 209 BP TCS 40 TH 200 EM 0
5000 km/s Armour 2-14 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 3
Annual Failure Rate: 32% IFR: 0.4% Maint Capacity 65 MSP Max Repair 20 MSP Est Time: 4.03 Years
Military Nuclear Pulse Engine Standard (5) Power 40 Fuel Use 100% Signature 40 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 45.0 billion km (104 days at full power)
10cm Meson Cannon RoF-5 (1) Range 30,000km TS: 5000 km/s Power 3-3 RM 3 ROF 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beam Fire Control Sx2 32kR-3kS (1) Max Range: 64,000 km TS: 3000 km/s 84 69 53 37 22 6 0 0 0 0
Pebble Bed Reactor Sx1 Pwr-3 (2) Total Power Output 6 Armour 0 Exp 5%
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
It takes only 0. 75 years to put on out, which seems all right to me, and I like how mesons do so little damage, but ignore armor. It's also damn fast, at least compared to my empire's max tracking speed of 3000. It's also really small so it should be able to get pretty close before getting spotted.
Though, now that I think about it I probably seriously messed up something really important. . .