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Sayle said:
Comments or criticism welcomed, obviously.
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I'd much rather see just the costing change with size instead of the base warp speed (for any platform larger than like 40kT or smaller than "massive"). At a certain point warp cores would get too small or the mass moved too large but for all our regular warp ships I feel a speed hit will be too strong a disincentive.

If we had warp core cost more strongly scale with ship size and then have a modifier (light, standard, heavy) like shields do it would let us maintain performance of small ships, decrease cost on small ships, and let us tweak ships in each size bracket to reflect designed missions. The modifier could be used to modify speeds or open/restrict nacelle options, put a small modifier on phaser damage/shield output, or affect defense rating (light duty can't take as much punishment).

Edit: This may be what you're suggesting and I'm misunderstanding.

As far as base cost anything that'll decrease the floor for small ships helps. That or just boosting our budget for new ship production so the new normal has a ton of "small" ships formerly known as light cruisers.
 
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[X] Medium Cargo Bay

I'm conflicted. I REALLY like an Arboretum, and I want to stick to the mission brief... but broad functionality.

Steven Kodaly said:
[X] Arboretum (+2 Science)

If Starfleet really likes the landing capability coupled with cargo space, it shouldn't be that hard to build a variant without an arboretum.
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If landing works well we can make more ships that land. But I want to trial it first.
 
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[X] Medium Cargo Bay

We went to the expense of arming this ship pretty well, and our fleet is outdated and badly depleted. Let's make the most of this design.

Starfleet needs to rebuild; it needs a new class of ship that can fill in for all of our losses without breaking the bank. Let's make this ship that. A science hyperspecialist produced in smaller numbers at a time when we need more modern ships ASAP seems like a miss to me.
 
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[X] Arboretum (+2 Science)

If Starfleet wants more cargo they can build other ships. We want a really good science ship focused on biology, even if that means Starfleet builds fewer of them in favor of Excaliburs.
 
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