What about sub-capital [ships, like the Perseus, Polaris and Hammerhead]?
TL;DRSub-capital ships vary by role and loadout, with the Hammerhead having a specific role and needing fighter cover, and the bigger the ship the more combat becomes naval-style, with no formal categories yet.
They're interesting, yeah. So it depends on the ship, right? For example, if you take a look at the Constellation, the Constellation...
Let's go bigger than the Constellation. Let's look at the Polaris. Let's assume there's the Javelin up here. Now let's get smaller: Perseus, Polaris, Hammerhead, those kind of things.
It depends on the ships and what kind of roles they have. I can't talk too much about the Polaris, but for example, the Hammerhead has a specific role in such a big capital ship battle. So it has a specific role, right? And the other ships... it would care about the fighter cover. It would not fare well against similar-sized opponents that are purposely built to take down similar-sized ships. So it depends always on the ship. Some ships rely a lot on turrets. Other ships, I wanted to say the Constellation here, because the Constellation is very forward-centric. It has these massive size five mounts which face forward. So a ship like that is obviously not relying much on the turrets to do the alpha damage against larger enemies. So there will be a transition period between the size of the ships and how they maneuver. But that's all combat details. But the bigger the ship, the more it turns into this naval-style gameplay.
Even when I said it, I realized there's going to be arguments about what is a capital ship and what isn't a capital ship, and how big. I said sub-capital and I just meant smaller than a Javelin.
We had some categories, like what is a sloop or something like that. But the thing is, we do not have too many ships of these categories. So at the moment, building a category about that is probably not that useful. We'll see how it all plays out.