Corvette Under 1.8.497102

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I was presented with the message shown below and it raised the question - what is a Corvette?  Is it a Fighter? Frigate?  Cruiser?  Battleship?  Dreadnaught?

All it says is that it is a "vessel of great potency", but that is not enough information.  Perhaps you could provide a popup showing the vessel's characteristics like you provide for every ship.  I believe that would provide players with sufficient information to make a decision.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Out of curiosity, I accepted the ship.  It turns out to be a cruiser with the following characteristics:

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

There is a big confusion about naming ship classes in novels and games. But there a consensus that corvettes are smaller than frigates.

What they do in Gc4 is sometimes weird for me as fighter and bombers should be on carriers.

The corvettes should be your first in system vessels. 

The frigates that have hyper drive, upgraded to destroyer (tin cans) then cruisers and finally battleships (very few have ever been built as they are sitting ducks).

Dreadnoughts are a figment of story teller, but OK it's a game! 

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