It would be nice to have a artifact that you can get via arty shipments to remove decks form your ship and or add this alternative option to ship bot. to support larger ship players that want to change to a smaller ship build without resetting.

-1. High rank ships with thousands of TOs reduce their damage cap to in line with their rank... I think not. You made your bed, lie in it (or reset)

-1
The problem with SSB is that they have low stats for a long time, hence bad planet etc. That's their price to pay for being insanely hard to kill.
If something like this was made, the price would be gone, enjoying a "full" life style early on AND get to be near invincible later is NOT appropriate nor fair.

Lemme tell you something. The way the damage calculations work, the only thing that makes damage go up as you go up in ranks is the decks. Seriously. If high ranks have less decks than low ranks, then the high ranks would take less damage per round, making PVP take forever. You want to have to take 500 hits for each kill? Support this idea.


Here's a situation for you.

You and your opponent are both rank 1000. You have identical stats:
Attack: 10,000
Defense: 10,000
Hull: 50,000
Decks: 981 (Pure SSB)

Your opponent is a Xecti, has both trinity cores and the auto evasion node.
That gives them 14,000 Attack and 16,820 Defense

You're attacking, so you're buffed. You have Obelisk/Crux/Foci/Amp/Grid/Nanite. Your new stats are as follows:
Attack: 14,611
Defense: 12,000
Hull: 75,000

Let's see how this fight goes eh?



Yup. I wasn't exaggerating, nor does that include shields.

With the current 6k deck behemoths, it takes 1/6th of that number of hits (still 80ish) to kill a guy.

So. With that in mind, I say -1.

I would hate to have these artifacts stored everywhere. make it as some sort of option available to ranks 100+ to convert deck space to storage and it could be useful.

then we could use all those stored up ship bots for cargo



if you can change ship design, race and profession why not be able to change class of ship?



its fair if everyone can do it

It won't be fair to the people who are already SSB. They suffered for a long time, for nothing?
Not that I like the SSB ppl... they are annoying as hell, but it's still unfair for everyone else to have what they earned.

No! >:(

maybe in reality I'm protesting the silliness of this mechanic...

i think everyone is afraid of the ssb and thats why this is such a good idea

It really is silly. Damage caps should be reconsidered.

Why exactly is it silly?
Have you seen the logic behind it explained ever?

i could see maybe a slight rework of the formula though.

well, actually i never can understand why rank is figured into dmg cap...
and tbh, i feel crew should also be considered. Not linearly ofc, cause that would defeat the purpose of crews and making them useless, but instead square root or 2/3 power(cube root of the square) of the total count. I mean... where are your crew located anyway? they must occupy space don't they?

in this case consider cargo into the cap

Im not sure the rank part does have an explanation logically, but it is needed so there aren't rank 1k's with a damage cap of 20

Being a ssb or even a msb is a double edge sword, people don't realise the work that goes into becoming one and remaining one, I've seen first hand how much rearranging these guys have to do to perform a task, they literally have to rearrange their ships to do anything effectively, this is one example from a friend,

He is a msb, he can not fit all scanners and all cloak into his amount of decks, therefore his ability to find and hack people within his bt range is very limited considering the space others have to fit everything. (It pretty much rules out hacking without debuffing and totally rearranging his ship to have nothing but as much scan and cloak as can be fitted onto his ship)

Every play style has its benefits and its drawbacks, the above is an example of a draw back amongst others for MSBs-SSBs similar to the ability of larger ships taking more damage (that is a well known drawback). Taking away the damage cap benefit will just lead to less variety in ship styles in the upper ranks, which is one of the positives of this game (the ability to pick a path for your ship). Not to mention punish the select few who have started from day 1 or early ranks on a plan that has led to their benefits in later ranks. Do you really want all ships to be the same (same mods, same ship size, same damage cap, same cloak, same scan)?

I personally would like to see more variety in ship styles implemented into this game or more areas to use strategy and tactics in your ship (something more advanced than the current list of races and professions that can be change all the time), but that is a different topic.

I've never heard a logic to justify it that I particularly liked, so please, go ahead and state yours.

Cargo is compressed silly. So my 600K cargo would only take up a small portion of one deck. lol

Sorry couldn't resist on that one. lol