Importance of bridge, troop quarters, life support

[jowe01]

What is actually the importance of bridges, life support and crew quarters. As far as I have noticed, the ship "only" looses movement points if you loose one of them. Why is there an Auxiliary Bridge but no replacement component for the others ? What is the disadvantage of an Auxiliary Bridge compared to a "real" Bridge ?

[Nyx]

If you lose your bridge your ship will sometimes act randomly. You also lose movement when you lose engines, but in combat, you need to lose two engines to lose one point of movement. As near as I can tell there is no difference between an auxiliary bridge and the real thing.

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[evan42]

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Originally posted by jowe01:
What is actually the importance of bridges, life support and crew quarters. As far as I have noticed, the ship "only" looses movement points if you loose one of them. Why is there an Auxiliary Bridge but no replacement component for the others ? What is the disadvantage of an Auxiliary Bridge compared to a "real" Bridge ?

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As mentioned, having less than the minimum number required for its hull class, then you will only have 1 movement point.

There can be only 1 bridge on a ship, so if want a backup or backups of a bridge, you can build Auxiliary Bridges instead. They are the same thing.

As for life support and crew quarters, you can always build more of them then the required minimum. That's why there are no "replacements" for them. You can build 2 instead of 1, in case 1 of them is destroyed.

For me, I almost always build ships with the minimum requirement. I think it's better to have armors or shields instead of those backups.