Must be armed with at least 4 light laser cannons and 2 heavy laser cannons
[X] Plan Leaving Space for Shields and Crew
I'm not saying you're wrong about the raw stat difference, but the stats don't seem to reflect how much of a bonus the mass driver would be against pirates.
Wait, so their requirements really are for 6 turrets?
Staying with my earlier explanation, I would take it that they are great against weaker fighter shielding. As they don't need to directly hit a fighter to damage it. They could also be used in a dual-purpose I think?
That's what they wish to have. As cheap as possible.
Adding more double death though makes it better against fighters. Against the trade corps and their drone fighters an extra turret is an extra drone being destroyed. Because with unshielded fighters a single hit with a good weapon kills and we can get 2 double death for one mass driver (which is why i switched from quad death to double death). I also pick up more advantages which we can use to refine the model at the end.
Yeah...
In that case, then @Void Stalker, much as I would like a Mass Driver, meeting the requirements will be hard enough without it. As in, I don't think we can actually do it.
Also, I'm noticing that for every turret but the mass drivers, the weapon stat equals the component spaces used times 2.
Maybe we should note that two heavy's are a requirement...
We have to fail at least one requirement. There's no getting around it, because we need 1 space for the crew at absolute minimum. 2 if we're unlucky and can't use a small compartment.
Compartment space is the bigger issue we are running into, we have a lot of advantages after weapons to use for tuning the ship and we have a -1 to final cost from a company trait but squeezing it and shields and crew quarters into the frame is what we are running into more. We should expect at least 1 compartment for crew quarters, shields are unknown in compartment size. We also get to add special weapons if we have any space leftover. As it is going for tougher shields should help against pirates as they are less likely to damage and thus lower need to repair ships. Without knowing shield space though I am leery of adding more weapons (and if we did it would be a 5th double death turret since those take up 1 space). Right now my plan has 6 compartment space left we need crew quarters and shields which take up space so at a minimum 1 space for each (and they could be more as a 1 space shield is likely quite weak). If shields are in the 2-3 range for normal then that means if we leave 6 space we might be able to fit in large shields.
