Crazykippy08
&
kwhwwymwn
Thank you for the ship submissions!
Oneye - Thank you for the welcome!
The difficulty in this mod follows the following rank, versus how much the ship 'costs'. The reason is that is how the game decides to place a ship in a rank or not. For 'groups' of ships, it is the total cost of that group, so you can have smaller ships in a group, where a single ship could be much bigger as long as it stays within the cost range for that rank.
RANKINGS
Rank 0 = 0 to 65,000 / Civilian
Rank 1 = 65,001 to 100,000 / Knave
Rank 2 = 100,001 to 150,000 / Hack
Rank 3 = 150,001 to 200,000 / Adept
Rank 4 = 200,001 to 300,000 / Rogue
Rank 5 = 300,001 to 500,000 / Fiend
Rank 6 = 500,001 to 750,000 / Cutthroat
Rank 7 = 750,001 to 1,000,000 / Marauder
Rank 8 = 1,000,001 to 1,500,000 / Pirate
Rank 9 = 1,500,001 to 2,500,000 / Privateer
Rank 10 = 2,500,001 to 3,500,000 / Raider
Rank 11 = 3,500,001 to 4,500,000 / Psycho
Rank 12 = 4,500,001 to 5,500,000 / Corsair
Rank 13 = 5,500,001 to 6,500,000 / Buccaneer
Rank 14 = 6,500,001 to 7,500,000 / Warlord
Rank 15 = 7,500,001 to 15,000,000 / Legendary
So the maximum a ship can cost is roughly 15 million in order to make it into the mod. Any bigger, and the number of player computers that can handle a ship that big becomes limited.
Because of the new way ships are created, as you alluded to, is one of the reasons I would like to update this mod. I can certainly take out the 'lesser' made ships and replace them with either new, or updated designs in each rank.
My main purpose however, is not so much having awesome ships. It is more to increase the variety of ships available, and increase the size of the ships available. On a larger map, once you have a big ship or a fleet, what the game throws at you is limited in difficulty.
My big wish for the game is that it will place the lowest level ranks near the player start position, and the further away from that you go, the higher the rank the system bounty is.
As it is, I waste a lot of time clearing out those level 1 rank systems, when I am already rank 12.