Yah just like the title suggest, I like to see the dev add a "ship engine" component to the game. For now a pure attack ship, loaded with loads of weapons and warp drive, own almost anything in this game. Adding a ship engine might balance that a bit. For example you have 50 hulls with 40 power engine. A weapon will use more engine power compare to a defensive shield for example, but less hull space. For example a laser 3 will use 5 hulls but 10 engine power and a defensive shield will use 10 hulls but only 5 engine power. Therefore you can only put 4 "laser 3" before you run out of engine power (not to mention you need to put a warp drive as well). To use your hulls and engine power more efficiently you then have to mix them both. A combination like 3 "laser 3" and 2 defensive shield for example is more efficient in this case rather than a pure offensive ship.
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