Why does the Endeavor have such weak armaments for a deep space science vessel that's the length of an Idris? Could it get some point defense systems along the centre hull to protect against torpedo attacks and ships attempting to directly board?asked by Hawx
TL;DRThe Endeavor is a science ship, not a combat ship, so its weapons are intentionally limited; more point defense turrets are possible, but that waits until testing shows obvious weaknesses.
Well the first answer is that the Endeavor is not a combat ship, it's a science ship! We intentionally kept the weapons very limited. It's not an explorer either. It's a ship that goes to safer areas and does science. In fact, it has the armoured cab specifically so you can detach the valuable, complex, part and explore at your own risk. The other half of that question is, it's entirely possible that we get additional point defense turrets. It's going to wait until we go into the white boxing/grey boxing stage, and we start playing around with it and go, "Oh, okay, here's an obvious vector where enemy fighters take it down every single time." So we will build a solution to that. Until we get to that stage, it's hard to say.
Alright. Yeah, because, I mean a lot of it is sort of... on paper it can be one thing but, like you said, once you see it in there.
Yeah. A lot of... I shouldn't say a lot of, but every single ship goes into the game with the "Oh here's the flaw we didn't see. Here's how we needed to play differently." There will be changes, that's a potential one. We'll see!
Cool.