Why do light fighters like the Arrow have the same cooling, shielding and power capacity as medium and heavy fighters like the Hornet and Hurricane? Weaponry and hull armor aside, what incentive is there to use a larger, slower ship when a nimble, tiny fighter has the same capability?
TL;DRThe speakers disagree that light and heavier fighters have the same capability, explaining that identical components behave differently depending on the ship, especially coolers and heat.
I disagree that it has the same capability. It may have the same items inside, but if you put a glass of water inside a 55 gallon oil drum versus 55 gallons of water inside an oil drum, both the same item in there, they behave very differently, sloshing around.
The heat system also interacts in ways that are not immediately intuitive. So for example, you might have the same cooling capacity on two different ships, but because they have all different items and a different loadout, the heating behaves differently.
So depending on the size and make and model of a ship, two different ships may use the same component differently, with different levels of efficiency, different performance characteristics, even though it's the same component.
Exactly. Especially, like I say, coolers. They may seem to have the same values across multiple ships, but on the Arrow, it may let those guns fire for much longer, but it lets the F8 fire everything for a much shorter time.