Ship construction from the new player perspective

[Visinvictus]

@Gladi099

So who makes the NV1 for the BR1 that a System Ship still needs?

Ah yeah, Scientists…

It’s pretty simple to fix this:

• Move NV1/NV2 to the Ftl engine
• Combine BR1 and BR2 into a single BR module, and add 5 Workstations (BWS) to the list of components required
• Remove ACS from the STL engines, and adjust STL engine formulas accordingly. I have quoted my suggestions for fixing STL engine formulas from another thread below.
• Remove WAI from LIS, WR, and AIR formulas entirely. Replace with something from ELP and/or software dev such as basic AI.
• Remove the different size crew quarters recipes and replace with a single crew quarters, but the number of crew quarters scales with the size of the ship.

@Visinvictus

Another balance change that would help make the smaller cargo bays useful is if we would need multiple (much cheaper) STL engines on a ship depending on the size of the cargo bay. In real life, the more mass your ship has, the more thrust it will require if it is going to reach orbit. For an example of how this could work in game, the number of engines required could be 1 for a ship with a tiny cargo bay, 5 for a large cargo bay, and 8 for a high load cargo bay.

To balance we would need to remove the ACS from the STL engine formula (especially since the description of this item specifically mentions FTL reactors), and each engine would require 1 Fuel Pump, 1 Nozzle, 1 Flow control device, some Fluid Piping, some quantity of Thermofluid (coolant) depending on the type of engine, an amount of metal or alloy of an appropriate level for the engine, and a fastener kit.

I would also probably want to remove the BOS requirements for Combustion chamber and replace it with something else, and adjust the Nozzle recipes so that only ANZ and HNZ require AML time.