This is what I do to make fighters more realistic:
Fighters are around 15-30kTs right? So how can a fighter bay be 30kT and hold 4 fighters for launch? So I increased the fighter bay to 100kT - I think it makes it more realistic. Plus, then you don't have 100's of fighters to track from each heavy carrier in battle!
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