A mod idea :)

[Starhawk]

Okay some details I've decided for what I'm going to do:

Fighters: Some races will NOT have them and others will have them purely for fighter and interceptor (as in MISSILES people ) duty others like the swarmers will use them extensively including "destroyers" which are actually going to be the SIZE of a destroyer but under the fighter classification.

I am increasing the capital class ship weights MUCH larger then the smaller ships for example:

Icaran:
Frigate= 300kt
Destroyer=350kt
Light Cruiser= 425kt
Heavy Cruiser=500kt
Battlecruiser= 1,000kt
Dreadnought= 4,000kt
Super Dreadnought= 6,000kt
Commandship = 8,000kt
Battlemoon = 10,000kt

Hra-Thrall

Supressor Frigate= 350kt
Light Destroyer = 400kt
Heavy Destroyer = 500kt
WarCruiser = 4,000kt
Harbringer = 5,000kt
Legacy = 7,000kt

Terrenesi:
Frigate = 250kt
Destroyer = 300kt
Fleet Destroyer = 500kt
Heavy Cruiser = 800kt
Battlecruiser = 3,500kt
Dreadnought = 10,000kt
Super Dreadnought =15,000kt

The reason you are seeing such DRASTIC changes is because it's hard for me to see Space Empires fleets compared to those of "real" fleets, you don't see such tiny changes from size to size a modern Destoryer is MUCH larger then a frigate and a modern cruiser is MUCH larger then a destroyer and a modern Carrier is orders of magnitutde larger then a cruiser.

So basically as your ship classes go up they get to be TRUE capital ships as opposed to skirmishers and lightweight combat ships.

Also I am modding in shield mounts so that a SD mount will be MUCH more powerful shield generators then say a battlecruisers (that's per shield generator not just because the mass of ship you have available for shields).

I'm also lowering the average weapon fire from 1 to 2 turns per cycle.

Basically I want people playing to see REAL naval slugging matches where a battle can last several GAME turns and where if they see even 30 Dreadnoughts entering their space they get a wee bit squimish

Of course with AI this will also be easy to pull of because I can put say 5 battlecruisers to his 1 dreadnought so even if your one of those players who goes for quantity over quality your going to regret it when his 1 dreadnought chews your battlecruiser formation to peices.