Pterosaur is a really good base to make an amazingly OP B-class ship. Mine has 4x PB-75 HeLion beams & 2x 1750 EM weapons, over 3300 cargo space & full mobility with 28 jump range, 1450 sheilds (UC Vanguard Bulwark shields that can be unlocked by completing the very first UC Vanguard quest) & 35 reactor power (best B-class reactor). That thing handles my weekly runs to Kryx to savage the main Crimson Fleet with taking minimal damage, and I have considered adding some top-end B-class particle beam turrets for the 3rd weapon slot, so I can just shift the power from the EM weapons to the turrets if I need to destroy a lot of ships fast, then shunt it back to the EM weapons to disable the last ship for boarding & capture. It also has a crew capacity of 7 & like 3-4 passenger capacity with the modifications I made to it. It also only has a single ladderway at the rear of the ship that essentially connects the rear-facing Taiyo landing bay to the docker on the top level (the modified configuration has 3 full levels). Basically hab modules are, from aft to forward: Deck 1 (landing bay access): 1x1 NG Storeroom, 1x2 NG Workshop, 1x2 NG Armoury. Deck 2: 1x1 NG Companionway, 1x3 NG Engineering Bay, 1x2 NG Control Center, original NG cockpit. Deck 3: 1x1 NG companionway, 1x2 NG All in One Berth, 1x2 NG Captain's Quarters. I put a docking module on top of the 3rd deck companionway. EDIT: There is actually a better B-class reactor than the DC303 you show here, namely the 104DS Mag Inertial Reactor that has 39 power output & almost 100 more hull HP, but it requires not only max Piloting & Starship Design, but also character level to be at least 60.
Crew does work that way you just can't use it with the way the ship comes by default. Each system adds points of "crew work" Can't have the members if you don't have the capacity AND work. Some modules ensure you get a minimum crew count if you add the modules for capacity like shields and grav drive cause the ship has to have those. Another reason the vanguard obliterators are a top tier weapon at 2 power each cause they still give .25 crew per gun and you can max at 6 guns. So, you have to have modules for crew capacity and then the "systems" that also add up to 8 to back it up.
I'd definitely tweak a few things about the ship. Generally I like the NG All-In-One A because it has a galley and research station in addition to the usual 2 passenger slots. Those two Storerooms on the bottom could easily be swapped for a Workshop. The Captain's Quarters up top isn't necessarily bad, but I'd definitely remove all the windows for a side-by-side to see what things get stripped; generally the fore/aft ones that replace doors strip away less.
One thing I wish you could do is get multiple sets of the same weapon and simply set each set as a different weapon priority. I really would love 3 banks of 6 Vanguard Obliterator Autoprojectors or 4 banks of 3 high power automatic particle cannons. It wouldn't mess with the 12 max power requirements at all. Maybe mess with the triggers some, but that shouldn't be hard to fix. Can you imagine? 18 guns pointing in the same direction 😂😂😂
8:08 Yeah, Nova Galactic is easily my favorite of the manufacturers when it comes to their interior design (except for the notable absence of a bathroom in the captain's quarters lol). The only other one that comes close is Stroud-Ecklund, due to it being the more "luxury-ish" interior design. Taiyo's interiors are such a disappointment IMO, the game talks them up as being an advanced and high-quality manufacturer (and externally, at least, they are), but when you get to the interiors they're just a reskin of the sorta trashy HopeTech interiors. It's too bad, because I quite like the "space-submarine" aesthetic that they have, I just can't stand the interiors for the most part lol
Pterosaur is a really good base to make an amazingly OP B-class ship. Mine has 4x PB-75 HeLion beams & 2x 1750 EM weapons, over 3300 cargo space & full mobility with 28 jump range, 1450 sheilds (UC Vanguard Bulwark shields that can be unlocked by completing the very first UC Vanguard quest) & 35 reactor power (best B-class reactor). That thing handles my weekly runs to Kryx to savage the main Crimson Fleet with taking minimal damage, and I have considered adding some top-end B-class particle beam turrets for the 3rd weapon slot, so I can just shift the power from the EM weapons to the turrets if I need to destroy a lot of ships fast, then shunt it back to the EM weapons to disable the last ship for boarding & capture. It also has a crew capacity of 7 & like 3-4 passenger capacity with the modifications I made to it. It also only has a single ladderway at the rear of the ship that essentially connects the rear-facing Taiyo landing bay to the docker on the top level (the modified configuration has 3 full levels).
Basically hab modules are, from aft to forward: Deck 1 (landing bay access): 1x1 NG Storeroom, 1x2 NG Workshop, 1x2 NG Armoury. Deck 2: 1x1 NG Companionway, 1x3 NG Engineering Bay, 1x2 NG Control Center, original NG cockpit. Deck 3: 1x1 NG companionway, 1x2 NG All in One Berth, 1x2 NG Captain's Quarters. I put a docking module on top of the 3rd deck companionway.
EDIT: There is actually a better B-class reactor than the DC303 you show here, namely the 104DS Mag Inertial Reactor that has 39 power output & almost 100 more hull HP, but it requires not only max Piloting & Starship Design, but also character level to be at least 60.
Crew does work that way you just can't use it with the way the ship comes by default. Each system adds points of "crew work" Can't have the members if you don't have the capacity AND work. Some modules ensure you get a minimum crew count if you add the modules for capacity like shields and grav drive cause the ship has to have those. Another reason the vanguard obliterators are a top tier weapon at 2 power each cause they still give .25 crew per gun and you can max at 6 guns. So, you have to have modules for crew capacity and then the "systems" that also add up to 8 to back it up.
I'd definitely tweak a few things about the ship. Generally I like the NG All-In-One A because it has a galley and research station in addition to the usual 2 passenger slots. Those two Storerooms on the bottom could easily be swapped for a Workshop. The Captain's Quarters up top isn't necessarily bad, but I'd definitely remove all the windows for a side-by-side to see what things get stripped; generally the fore/aft ones that replace doors strip away less.
One thing I wish you could do is get multiple sets of the same weapon and simply set each set as a different weapon priority. I really would love 3 banks of 6 Vanguard Obliterator Autoprojectors or 4 banks of 3 high power automatic particle cannons.
It wouldn't mess with the 12 max power requirements at all. Maybe mess with the triggers some, but that shouldn't be hard to fix. Can you imagine? 18 guns pointing in the same direction 😂😂😂
It's a nice ship, slap some better weapons on those weapon mounts, and poof you got a nice ship. The interior is really nice.
8:08 Yeah, Nova Galactic is easily my favorite of the manufacturers when it comes to their interior design (except for the notable absence of a bathroom in the captain's quarters lol). The only other one that comes close is Stroud-Ecklund, due to it being the more "luxury-ish" interior design. Taiyo's interiors are such a disappointment IMO, the game talks them up as being an advanced and high-quality manufacturer (and externally, at least, they are), but when you get to the interiors they're just a reskin of the sorta trashy HopeTech interiors. It's too bad, because I quite like the "space-submarine" aesthetic that they have, I just can't stand the interiors for the most part lol
Sounds like Taiyo is the Starfield equivalent of Elon Musk. Overhype outweighs the actual product.
I think they were supposed to be the apple of the stafield universe, but they lack that sort of style with there interiors