Component suggestions

[drspendlove]

Decryption Chamber

Price: 28k
Mass: 110 (10 more than Triple-Arc Signal Array)
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Rychart

Ship Pools: +5 Electronics
Effect: +10% to Credit rewards when Spying; Starts Spying missions with +2% Chance of drawing mission card.

Analysis: For a small orbital op component it is somewhat expensive. It's mass is 10 more than the most similar existing component, which can force an upgrade of a mass reducing component to squeeze it into some ships. It gives a healthy amount of electronics, which makes it viable, but not optimal, in an electronics-defense ship combat strategy. The credit reward when spying comes from slicing into the encrypted channels, and will the dedicated spy boost the herself toward getting other meaningful upgrades to her ship. The bonus to mission card features like the Military Officer trait and can be stacked. In fact, this component coupled with the Triple-Arc Signal Array both stacked could make for very lucrative and efficient spying missions with some significant ship combat defense dice at the expense of having the crew be heavily geared toward +Electronics skill.

[drspendlove]

Grand Ambassador's Office

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 5%
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 5 Mass
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Thulun

Ship Pools: None
Effect: +5% Credit Bonus to Diplomatic missions, Houses 1 Officer, +1 Shield Rating



Envoy's Office

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin - 5
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Rychart

Ship Pools: None
Effect: +3% Credit Bonus to Diplomatic or Spy missions, Houses 1 Officer 



Trader's Quarters

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 50%
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 10
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Moklumnue

Ship Pools: None
Effect: +3% Credit Bonus to Merchant missions, +2 Cargo Space, Houses 1 Officer


Merchant's Cabin

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 5%
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: De Valtos

Ship Pools: None
Effect: +6% Credit Bonus to Merchant missions, Houses 1 Officer


Adventurer's Cabin

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 10%
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Javat

Ship Pools: +1 Ship Ops
Effect: +4% Credit Bonus to Exploration missions, Houses 1 Officer, +1 Armor



Navigator's Office

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin - 20%
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Alta Mesa

Ship Pools: +1 Navigation
Effect: -2 HW Fuel Cost, Houses 1 Officer



Compact Officer's Cabin

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin - 30
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Zenrin

Ship Pools: None
Effect: Houses 1 Officer


Military Officer's Cabin

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 15%
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Cadar

Ship Pools: +1 Ship Ops
Effect: +5% Credits for Military Missions, Houses 1 Officer


Hunter's Lodge

Price: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 20%
Mass: Reinforced Officer's Cabin + 5
Slot: Small
Faction Restriction: Steel Song

Ship Pools: None
Effect: +5% Credits for Bounty Hunter missions, +1 Shielding, Houses 1 Officer

[drspendlove]

Aggressor Guidance System
Cost: 55k/85k/130k/195k
Slot: Medium
Mass: 280
Faction Restriction: Steel Song for Level 4

-- Level 1 --
Ship Pools: +4 Navigation +4 Pilot
Effects: +12 Range Change, +5 Boarding, -15 Escape

-- Level 2 --
Ship Pools: +5 Navigation +4 Pilot
Effects: +15 Range Change, +5 Boarding, -20 Escape

-- Level 3 --
Ship Pools: +6 Navigation +5 Pilot
Effects: +18 Range Change, +5 Boarding, -25 Escape

-- Level 4 --
Ship Pools: +7 Navigation +5 Pilot
Effects: +20 Range Change, +5 Boarding, -30 Escape


Analysis: Competes with Peak Velocity Module. Has better Piloting than it, lending itself to a Pilot Defense build. Gives Navigation instead of Electronics and Ship Ops, further helping it get out of long range positions. Harms escape chances but not enormously with the lower level modules. Higher level modules indicate a commitment to combat in all settings. Boarding bonus is flat so it doesn't heavily compete with small modules that are dedicated to that option.

[drspendlove]

Interrogation Cell
Cost: 20k
Slot: Small
Mass: Prison Cell + 10
Faction Restriction: Steel Song
Other Restriction: Requires Government Rating 9+, Military Rating 8+
Effect: Houses 1 Prisoner, Missions requiring a prisoner grant 1 intel upon completion.

Note: Intel is never conflict intel.

[fallen]

May 26, 2019 8:48:36 GMT -5 drspendlove said:

Interrogation Cell
Cost: 20k
Slot: Small
Mass: Prison Cell + 10
Faction Restriction: Steel Song
Other Restriction: Requires Government Rating 9+, Military Rating 8+
Effect: Houses 1 Prisoner, Missions requiring a prisoner grant 1 intel upon completion.

Note: Intel is never conflict intel.

Hey that's very cool twist What a evil monster you are tho lol

[drspendlove]

Storm Demagnetizer
Small
150 Mass
Cost: 65k
Restrictions: None

Ship Pools: +3 Electronics, +2 Navigation
Effect: +15% Safety in Radiation Storms, +18 Radiation Resist

[drspendlove]

Storm Engine
Large
Normal Mass + 5%
Cost: Normal Engine Cost +10%
Restrictions: None

Ship Pools: Slightly more Electronics than Balanced, slightly worse Pilot
Effect: +50% Safety in Radiation Storms, +10 Radiation Resist, +1 Shield Rating

Notes: Radiation Storm safety doesn't raise above the safety of a non-radiation storm ever. This engine should only be available to very small ships for balance.

[drspendlove]

"Negotiator" Plasma Artillery
415 Mass (+115 over level 7)
Medium Size
+2 Ship Ops (-1)
+3 Electronics (+1)
+10 Gunnery (+1)
+10 Accuracy (0)
38% Critical Chance (+8%)
22% Crippling Chance (-8%)
2 RP to fire (-1)
140-150 Damage (-11 to -20)
30-170 Radiation Damage (-10 to +40)
5% to Hit Craft (0)
Cost: 180k (About 80k more than undiscounted price of level 7)
Restrictions: Event gated

Here's one perhaps to be unlocked in the fight against Xeno ships or anything you want to be wrecked with Radiation Damage. Overall a very small improvement in Skill pools. The main tradeoffs are considerably heavier mass for an amazing 2 RP cost for a medium weapon. Additionally, it focuses more on defeating via critical hits than crippling hits. Notably it has a bit less standard damage and even slightly less radiation damage if you're unlucky. However, the max radiation damage is extreme and the 2 RP cost means it could be stacked with more/other weapons, supposing you find a way to make the mass work out for you. It retains the horrible chance to hit craft.

[contributor]

Ok, I'm not going to be nearly as detailed as everyone else on here. Components that I think would be cool are armors that protect against certain kinds of debuffs. They would provide lower armor value but remove or reduce the chance of weapon caused debuffs. 2-3 different classes for long (medium) and short range. So for long range, the armor would protect against Void Contortions, Electrical Fire and Secondary Explosions etc. Short range armor would protect against System Blackout, Radiation Wash, Venting Hull and Ruptured Bulkheads. These armors would offer the player the chance to choose to further focus their defense strategy, but offer real tradeoffs.

[nerezzar]

Catapult launch bay
(Catapult micro bay?)

Stats similar to launch (micro) bay, but locked behind story process/sacrifices fuel capacity/double fuel cost?
The first (/number of catapult bays/favors interdictor?/only usable with interdictor & shuttle?) launched craft each round will immediately close in on the enemy ship effectively saving one round of flight time.
(This obviously ignores defensive flight plans)

I'm not entirely sure that this is still needed but I'll suggest it nonetheless.
As is, the damage from craft is pretty acceptable. However, due to the slow nature, you still can't really solely rely on them but still need weapons to use up your RP/apply early debuffs.

This might help applying that crucial early -20% accuracy from interdictors and only marginally increases the damage:
25% for one craft (launch&close, bomb, retreat&land instead of launch, close, bomb, retreat&land)
if you launch 2 interdictor T1, 2 Bombers T2 and it applies to one of each, that's a Savage increase of roughly 10%.

Compare that to e.g. scanners and I'd say that's acceptable as you can't stack them as easily.

[drspendlove]

Reference above with 22% discount showing

Micro Extraction Drill
Price: 22k (about the same as extraction Drill)
Mass: 115
Size: Small
Faction Restriction: None
Ship Pools: +1 Ship Ops
Effect: Increases yield of Raw and Refined Resource discoveries by up to +5 during Exploration

Micro Resource Processor
Price: 27k
Mass: 125
Size: Small
Faction Restriction: Javat
Ship Pools: +2 Ship Ops
Effect: Increases yield of Raw and Refined Resource discoveries by up to +8 during Exploration; Adds 5 Fuel Capacity.


Analysis: We don't have a ton of ops choices with small components. We have intel gathering and damage mitigation. Small components are known for their skill pool bonuses so these give a token amount of ship ops. The weaker of the two does require slightly less mass, making it attractive in very select circumstances, but is generally inferior to the Javat-specific choice. These generally pale in comparison to the medium size components and wouldn't stack very effectively. But there are cases where small ships want to do some exploring and this would be an option to dip into that domain without sacrificing a limited availability medium slot.

[resistor]

Jun 6, 2019 7:45:14 GMT -5 drspendlove said:

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Reference above with 22% discount showing

Micro Extraction Drill
Price: 22k (about the same as extraction Drill)
Mass: 115
Size: Small
Faction Restriction: None
Ship Pools: +1 Ship Ops
Effect: Increases yield of Raw and Refined Resource discoveries by up to +5 during Exploration

Micro Resource Processor
Price: 27k
Mass: 125
Size: Small
Faction Restriction: Javat
Ship Pools: +2 Ship Ops
Effect: Increases yield of Raw and Refined Resource discoveries by up to +8 during Exploration; Adds 5 Fuel Capacity.


Analysis: We don't have a ton of ops choices with small components. We have intel gathering and damage mitigation. Small components are known for their skill pool bonuses so these give a token amount of ship ops. The weaker of the two does require slightly less mass, making it attractive in very select circumstances, but is generally inferior to the Javat-specific choice. These generally pale in comparison to the medium size components and wouldn't stack very effectively. But there are cases where small ships want to do some exploring and this would be an option to dip into that domain without sacrificing a limited availability medium slot.

I like the concept, but have some nitpicks.

The existing exploration yield components don't give Ship Ops, and small components are supposed to be weaker, so I don't think they should get a unique bonus like that.

Instead of +5 fuel capacity for the Javat one, why not +5 cargo? I think it would make more sense for it to be a cargo bonus because it would be consistent with how Medium exploration yield components give more cargo than fuel, if any fuel at all. Also I think it would be better utility to be able to store the bonus loot dug up.

If small explore yield components are added, Medium Extraction Drill should be raised to +8 cargo so that it can be an at least somewhat competitive option

[drspendlove]

Eh, I think having components be strictly better than others is a less fun pattern than having some nuance between them. I don't feel strongly about the exact details though.

[drspendlove]

Comparing against Capital Bridges, but should be somewhat applied to all Bridges. It might make sense to have level 1-4 varieties then it could be fun to have these on faction-specific ships by default.

Bridge of Memories

Grants 25% Resistance to Morale damage in deep space rolls.
Slightly less Navigation than level 4 Bridges, no armor bonus, same jump cost
Cost = Level 4 cost +5%
Restriction: Zenrin, 8+ Military, 9+ Spaceport

Fleet Captain's Bridge

Grants +10% Accuracy at range 4 and 5.
Slightly less Electronics than level 4 Bridges, +3 Jump cost instead of +1
Cost = Level 4 cost +15%
Restriction: Cadar, 10 Military, 10 Spaceport

Ace Pilot Bridge

Grants moderately more piloting than other bridges
Slightly less Ship Ops, no armor bonus.
Cost = +15%
Restriction: Alta Mesa, 9+ Military, 10 Spaceport

[resistor]

Javat-exclusive Cargo Hold that gives 60 cargo, but only 40 fuel capacity. Compared to other cargo holds, it is giving 10 more cargo than Cargo Bay 5, but has the fuel capacity of a Cargo Hold 1.

Javat mining, refinery, and industrial worlds have so much supply it would make sense for them to develop super high capacity holds to move huge bulk shipments of goods. Also, Jav is the only one of the three 'economy factions' that doesn't have an exclusive cargo hold yet.