SEV: Are there missing ship types?

Strategia_In_Ultima · #1 October 5th, 2006, 05:52 AM

That would IMO be more of a retrofit than a ship-size upgrade. As it is, in SEIV (haven't had the chance to try the SEV demo yet, and don't know if I will anytime soon), you can refit a ship to any other design of the same size, provided the new design adds no colony modules or spaceyards. Retrofitting a Battlecruiser-size ship from a cargo transport to a heavy-hitting warship is also rather extreme.

Suicide Junkie · #2 October 5th, 2006, 07:13 AM

Eh?

You still have to do the retrofit in order to gain the benefits of the technology upgrade to ship size.

It isn't automagic upgrades, at least in stock.

Barnacle Bill · #3 October 5th, 2006, 12:53 PM

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Strategia_In_Ultima said:
That would IMO be more of a retrofit than a ship-size upgrade. As it is, in SEIV (haven't had the chance to try the SEV demo yet, and don't know if I will anytime soon), you can refit a ship to any other design of the same size, provided the new design adds no colony modules or spaceyards. Retrofitting a Battlecruiser-size ship from a cargo transport to a heavy-hitting warship is also rather extreme.

To add to Suicide Junkie's comment, retrofit is the mechanism by which one takes advantage of a hull size increase in SEV. If you do an "upgrade" on an existing design, and new levels of hull technology have increased the size of that hull type since the original was designed, you now have extra space to fill up with more systems. You can then retrofit the existing ships of the first class to the second class. In SEV terms, that's basically what the Italians did with the Conte di Cavour's - upgraded the design to a larger hull, upgraded or replaced the engines & weapons, then retrofitted their existing ships to the new design.

dmm · #4 October 5th, 2006, 01:20 PM

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Strategia_In_Ultima said:
That would IMO be more of a retrofit than a ship-size upgrade. As it is, in SEIV (haven't had the chance to try the SEV demo yet, and don't know if I will anytime soon), you can refit a ship to any other design of the same size, provided the new design adds no colony modules or spaceyards. Retrofitting a Battlecruiser-size ship from a cargo transport to a heavy-hitting warship is also rather extreme.

See my subject title. I wonder if that's a popular show with the Xiati.