This is my ship classification system. It assumes that your ship's longest dimesion is length.
Ship classes with specific roles:
Runabout
-7x7x7 or less
-unarmed
-may have sheilding or armor
-usually has plexstorages
-very fast
Interceptor
-10-30 long
-main armanent is usually pure AMCs
-focuses on speed and firepower over sheilding
Fighter
-30-50 long
-may have missiles, but also mostly AMCs
Bomber
-40-70 long
-focuses on missiles over AMCs
-has heavy sheilding
-sometimes has turrets for defense
Heavy Fighter
-50-70 long
-focuses on AMCs over missiles
-focuses on speed over sheilding
-also may have turrets
Hybrids of fighters and bombers are always called fighter-bombers.
Ships with Non-specific roles. These ships can have multiple custom roles:
Corvette
-70-150 long
Frigate
-150-300 long
Cruiser
-300-400 long
Battlecriuser
-400-500 long
Battleship
-500-600 long
Dreadnought
-600-800 long
Titan
-800 or above
Roles:
Non-combat roles:
Cargo
-focuses on sheilds over firepower
-always has a large cargo bay
Mining
-always has a large mining array
-focuses on sheilds and speed over firepower
Personal transport
-transports people
-usually has a large interior
-rarely armed, and focuses on sheilds and speed over firepower.
Combat roles:
Destroyer
-designed to fight ships larger than itself
-focuses on ship-mounted firepower over sheilds
-turrets are few but powerful
-sometimes has missles
Anti-fighter
-designed on take on large numbers of much smaller ships
-pure anti-fighters have a shotgun array and focuses on sheilds and speed over ship-mounted firepower
-turrets are many but are small and are equipped with shotguns rather than single large cannons
Carrier
-focuses on sheilds over firepower. sometimes even unarmed
-has powerful turrets
-designed to carry large numbers of smaller ships
The roles are made to be hybrided with classes and even mixed together. For example, you could have a destroyer corvette, or a carrier titan, or a mixture of both, or a frigate that is a mining-cargo-destroyer-carrier because it is focusing around all of those roles at once.
Hopefully this added a ruler to measure your ships with instead of adding lines for you to draw between.
Ship classes with specific roles:
Runabout
-7x7x7 or less
-unarmed
-may have sheilding or armor
-usually has plexstorages
-very fast
Interceptor
-10-30 long
-main armanent is usually pure AMCs
-focuses on speed and firepower over sheilding
Fighter
-30-50 long
-may have missiles, but also mostly AMCs
Bomber
-40-70 long
-focuses on missiles over AMCs
-has heavy sheilding
-sometimes has turrets for defense
Heavy Fighter
-50-70 long
-focuses on AMCs over missiles
-focuses on speed over sheilding
-also may have turrets
Hybrids of fighters and bombers are always called fighter-bombers.
Ships with Non-specific roles. These ships can have multiple custom roles:
Corvette
-70-150 long
Frigate
-150-300 long
Cruiser
-300-400 long
Battlecriuser
-400-500 long
Battleship
-500-600 long
Dreadnought
-600-800 long
Titan
-800 or above
Roles:
Non-combat roles:
Cargo
-focuses on sheilds over firepower
-always has a large cargo bay
Mining
-always has a large mining array
-focuses on sheilds and speed over firepower
Personal transport
-transports people
-usually has a large interior
-rarely armed, and focuses on sheilds and speed over firepower.
Combat roles:
Destroyer
-designed to fight ships larger than itself
-focuses on ship-mounted firepower over sheilds
-turrets are few but powerful
-sometimes has missles
Anti-fighter
-designed on take on large numbers of much smaller ships
-pure anti-fighters have a shotgun array and focuses on sheilds and speed over ship-mounted firepower
-turrets are many but are small and are equipped with shotguns rather than single large cannons
Carrier
-focuses on sheilds over firepower. sometimes even unarmed
-has powerful turrets
-designed to carry large numbers of smaller ships
The roles are made to be hybrided with classes and even mixed together. For example, you could have a destroyer corvette, or a carrier titan, or a mixture of both, or a frigate that is a mining-cargo-destroyer-carrier because it is focusing around all of those roles at once.
Hopefully this added a ruler to measure your ships with instead of adding lines for you to draw between.
