So I wanted to build some really badass Battleships inspired by WW2 designs (Yamato, Iowa, Bismarck exc).
The first big design problem I encountered was that all these classical Battleships used an "all or nothing" approach to armor allocation.
What this means is that critical components such as the Main Weapons, Magazines, Command(combat bridge) and Engines get a very thick armor layer, while all other non-critical components get none at all.
In Aurora however it's only possible (as far as I found) to give extra armor to magazines and laser turrets. Since I wanted to build a bad-ass classical style Battleship I was obviously using railguns to throw big chunks of metal at far ranges.
So what I suggest is two things:
1. ) The ability to give individual armor to any internal component working like a second layer. Or the ability to group them into a armor box, with a set secondary armor layer.
2. ) The ability to mount railguns into turrets for armor protection. I don't care for their tracking bonus, if tracking would make them overpowered remove the tracking and let us just be put into turrets for cool and armor.
Since these could historically be placed in a smaller box the armor could be around 2-4 times as thick as if it had been spread out evenly over the ship.
Also I don't really agree with the design logic that weapons have the same tracking speed as the ship speed. A big ship can turn be a bitch to turn around even if it goes fast (inertia).
And finally a question since I'm a newb that only played 6. 0 for a week so far. Is it really intended that Annual Fail-rate % grows so crazy out of control as ships start to grow big?
The same ratio of Engineering spaces will have 800% AFR on a 10k ton vessle, 1600% on a 20k ton, 2400% on a 30k ton and so on. . .
When you get to 100'000 ton it gets so bad that you need to dedicate 40% of the entire tonnage towards engineering spaces to get it down to 100% AFR.
For a 5000 ton design 2% engineering spaces is enough!
Why would anyone ever want to build these big battleships ??
Edit: Removed some pictures and links since first time posters apparently are not trusted with links and pictures