Discussion 100-199 meter Corvettes

[Niki Priddy]

I've noticed with corvettes within the 100-199 meter size range, that the hangar rating is skewed and is not linear with the rest of the sizes that follow after it in regard to balancing the submission or in starfighter capacity.

• 50m [Base: 0 | Very Low: 0 | Low: 0 | Average: 0 | High: 0 | Very High: 0 | Extreme: 0 ]
• 100m [Base: 0 | Very Low: 0 | Low: 0 | Average: 0 | High: 0 | Very High: 1 | Extreme: 2 ]
• 200m [Base: 0 | Very Low: 0 | Low: 0 | Average: 1 | High: 2 | Very High: 3 | Extreme: 4 ]

It is the beginning of starships that can have a hangar for starfighters, but it takes a "point" automatically when being made, even if it is not adding a hangar for starfighters at any point.

For submissions above a mass produced rate of production, this is likely not an issue and I would otherwise ignore it to move on with life. In the end this is all for fun and doesn't amount to anything in the end besides having a neat boat to have in your repertoire. But it's been in the back of my head for a long time now after this submission was flagged for the hangar rating and has made me avoid this size of ship altogether.

I pose this question for discussion.

Should the Hangar Rating for 100-199 meter ships be changed to this-

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  100m [Base: 0 | Very Low: 0 | Low: 0 | Average: 0 | High: 1 | Very High: 2 | Extreme: 3 ]

To bring 100-199 meter ships into the same balance as any other ship submission at the point of creation with no balancing around an automatic point in hangar rating, or remain the same?

 

[John Locke]

Niki Priddy

This is a good suggestion, and if it had been brought up earlier then it's something I would have strongly considered adding as an amendment to the factory rules. The 100m corvette is one that has caused confusion in the past, and this would have provided a path to prevent any further confusion. The reasoning behind the way it's set up is as follows. The average fighter, the X-wing, is 13m in length, and a standard squadron of X-wings numbers 12 (per rogue and wraith squadrons. This means that the hangar space required would need a length of 156m, a hangar isn't going to have all the ships lined up nose to thruster, but even doubled or tripled up it's a huge chunk of a 100m ship that would need to be used up for the hangar, hence the very high requirement.

However, per the latest factory update, May 27 2024, the balancing system is no longer in place. Outside of some rules regarding extreme ratings submissions no longer need to be balanced in regards to the ratings system. What this means is that the hangar ratings are no longer a concern when it comes to building a corvette submission except as flavour for the ships. As I stated above, finding hangar space to fit even 1 squadron is going to be very hard, fitting on 2 is going to live little room for anything else.

 

[Niki Priddy]

John Locke

Thank you and much appreciated input.
I've seen a handful of art pieces with the CR 90 corvette and Gozanti's having starfighter compliments of varying sizes and thought I'd ask. There was actually an animation I will link here I came across a while back that had a modified CR 90 with A wings that were mounted to launch directly from the midsection. Returning to their hidden docked position likely would have been a dangerous task but it was a neat thing that caught my interest.

Convor Strike - A Star Wars: Remnant Fan Film

 

[John Locke]

Niki Priddy

That's pretty cool, and totally doable as a q-ship type vessel.