[Phoenix-D]

"Question: Why do you want the Crew Quarters and Life Support components to have mounts? I'd think the SE4 standard "x-amount required for this Y sized ship" would suffice."

Because the smallest ship is 100kt and the biggest ship is 8000kt. To keep the amount of LS and CQ fair would involve a LOT of clicking.

"It sounds like you're taking the components and scalling them down. The mount system in SE4, actually came about during the first Beta period, was designed to take components from the standard size and move up in range/power, not down. We weren't thinking of using mounts to "minatureize" components."

Which is where this problem comes from. However, using the mounts to scale things up doesn't work. Why would the player even bother? I suppose I could make them ridiclously expensive and use the mount to scale down, then hope I didn't run into the same problem..

"It seems to me a HH MOD could use the "Neutonian" system from the B5 MOD for the engines, a modified mount system for weapons and maybe side-wall generators. The only thing that'd be hard to do is the "fog of war" since SE4 doesn't have any."

See problem about ship sizes. This also ends up running into the 255 MP limit, which drasticlly cuts down on the amount of speed captial ships can have. And I still don't know what the problem with the SDs is.

Phoenix-D