Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It would hardly be “better results” then, now would it?
No, the costs are not significant. In fact, you'll end up with a better ship with a bulkhead/expander combo than if you try to armour tank the poor thing.

Remember, an expander cancels out a bulkhead but a bulkhead does not cancel out an expander. Put the two together and you get something that's better than you had before. That leaves you a third module to push on in whatever direction you're interested in.

Granted, this is napkin math since I'm at work.

No lowslots is about 900 mil.

Triple bulkheads turns into about 2.4 billion.

Seems like it would be better to not make any changes to the freighters and jump freighters unless they have been deemed overpowered or oversized, or...? The only customization I would have wanted, would be to paint my Charon flat black.

Only reason I could see for adding a plate is when you have a inertia stab and hyperspatial mod in the other two slots. It's really just a fringe option.

Stop asking for DCU. It's a terrible idea. There is a reason they have restrictive fittings. DCU has no drawbacks other than not having a 3rd slot for cargo.

and provides an absurd ehp buff.

How about the full cargo failwhale? They should be rare but we all know they will happen.

The base cargo capacity of Freighters is being decreased so that a set of three Tech Two Expanded Cargoholds adds 21-25% cargo above the previous maximum values. For Jump Freighters, three T2 Expanders will increase cargo capacity by 1-2%.

That change still confuses me. I don't use either frighters or JF but it seems stupid to nerf the T2 version in this way. The way this reads regular freighters get up to 21-25% boost while JFs get next to nothing over what they were before this change. Yes they have more choice now, but it gives little reason for cargo capacity to be one of those choices as it doesn't boost it all that much beyond what it used to have.

That means either all cargo expanders or a severely gimped cargo hold. You might as well out right mention that you are nerfing JF rather then trying to disguise it in this manner.

Why the special case for reinforced bulkheads over just making bulkheads some 0-1 for fitting?

I wonder if nanos mean I still need a web alt or can be bumped so easy...

Max armor resists on lets say a Anshar with some Deadspace resistance plating (2 adaptive, 1 explosive ~210 M) is an average of 72.15% without boosts. 90k raw armor puts armor EHP 323k

With boosts (travel for webs?) average resists become 75.475% = 422k armor ehp... all without 'sacrificing' cargo space.

even without boosts, it seem is considerably higher (323k armor + 247k hull + 47k shields = 617k ehp)

T2 fit is 62.625% average armor resist so.. 240k+247k + 47k shields which is 534k which is a bit less then 3 bulkheads.

I feel like my math is off somewhere as it seems a bit high, but I've been up 24 hours so hopefully someone a bit more alert then me will verify.