The Vault show various component manufacturers, can we expect same company synergy bonuses when choosing components? Such as Aegis Cooler would work better in an Aegis ship. Or will 3rd party component companies such as J-Span and Wen-Cassel have better overall stats due to component specialization?asked by HeroicFrog

That's actually a very good question. Right now we aren't conceiving of same company synergies bonuses. There certainly could be a case where there will be some equipment that say an Aegis ship works has and the only kind of cooler that fits is an Aegis cooler, which is the case in the real world in some cases.So there's that but I would say that in general you would look at the stats of the component and its quality level and that would dictate how it performs and how it would help in your ship. And whether or not there was a bonus because Aegis works better with ... an Aegis component works better with an Aegis ship, I don't know yet, and that's actually something that I will actually bring up because we are in the middle of finalising a lot of our component stats so could potentially be a cool thing.Like maybe there's an extra feature that you get with an Aegis cooler in an Aegis ship. It will still operate as a cooler on another ship but you just wouldn't have the extra, I don't know, fidelity or reading. Which can happen sometimes where you have a cooler, like on a computer, and if it works ... put the Corsair cooler in the Corsair case it's like built for it. You can take the Corsair cooler and put it somewhere else but it maybe isn't quite as good as a fit or works quite as well.