Best Starships...

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
I think we could give them some other advantages, though. Increase the tonnage a bit and add more slots for armor and shields, for example. They are stationary, after all. What practical limits are there on the amount of 'stuff' you can pile in one location in space?

Increasing armor and shields without increasing range or dealing with the level 1 weapons issue just means it takes the player longer to batter them down from complete safety.

Nothing in space is really stationary, you do need to station keep some. More importantly for a defense station as the size goes up the ratio of surface area to volume goes down. To a point this is a good thing but eventually you've got lots of volume that can't be used for putting things on the outside of the station- like armor or guns.