' Wrote:--------------------------------- Anyway you can't "box" all ships into easily defined classes with limits very far from each other.
Yes you can, since you need to redo the SP difficulty hierarchy anyway to rebalance the vanilla ships it's pretty easy, if you attack it from the big picture viewpoint.
And it doesn't make for a boring mod to have specs within a preset range, in fact it makes no difference to anyone except the player who want's to find the best pvp setup, and is that who you are catering to?
It's when you start giving people an edge, making a BD bomber for the NovaPG for instance that's better than the rest of the bombers that you cause balance problems.