I think that the SDD should be jetisoned from the game altogether! What a silly and widely abused device.
That said, I know that some people just love 'em (mostly because they abuse them IMHO
). And so here are my
very opinionated opinions.
i) I think that the SDD should be much larger in size (say 25kT), so that it will a) be taken out by incoming fire more frequently and b) people will have to really consider whether they want to give up
that much space for the privelege to go hari-kari.
ii) I also think that the SDD should appear much later in the tech tree to give some time for races to actually use boarding parties. If you recieve SDD at only level 3 propulsion... my goodness that's atleast 30 turns before anyone has even
thought about getting advanced military let alone built them into any ships.
iii) I think that SDD should be grouped with say engines or weapons or something targetable by special weapons to give Groups like the borg a chance to shoot it out.
iv) it would be nice to decrease the size of the defense and boarding parties to bring up their use a little too.
That's it, I feel much better now
