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Ship Cores

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SAIDS Ship Cores are blocks that allow modders to assign points to blocks, or groups of blocks, through a .xml. It's an in-game way to implement this rules document

Ship cores provide limits for ships, and allow you to specialize by spending upgrade points.

Ship Specializations

• Artillery
• Railgun
• Guided
• Autogun
• Energy
• EWAR (Frigates and Battlecruisers only)

Ship Perks

• Frigate: 1 perk slot
• Destroyer: 2 perk slots
• Cruiser: 3 perk slots
• Battlecruiser: 4 perk slots
• Battleship: 5 perk slots
• Capital: 6 perk slots
• Station: 3 perk slots

Available Upgrades:

Upgrade: Damage Resistance (0.9x/0.8x/0.7x) Grid damage taken modifier
Upgrade: Thruster Boost (1.25x/1.5x/2.0x) thruster modifier
Upgrade: Power Boost (1.25x/1.5x/2.0x) power output modifier
Upgrade: Drill Boost (1.5x/2.0x/4x) drill speed and (+4/+8/+16) Max drills
Unlock: Raise Production Limit (+8/+16/+32) Production blocks (h2/o2 gens, refineries, assemblers)
Unlock: Afterburner (frigate, destroyer, cruiser only)
Unlock: Blink Drive (frigate, dedstroyer, cruiser, capital only)
Choice: Stealth Drive (disables blink drive, frigate and battlecruiser only)
Choice: Blink Drive (disables stealth drive, frigate and battlecruiser only)

Core Types

Frigate Core

Available Classes:

• Artillery
• Railgun
• Guided
• Autogun
• Energy
• EWAR

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Destroyer Core

Available Classes:

• Artillery
• Railgun
• Guided
• Autogun
• Energy

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Cruiser Core

Available Classes:

• Artillery
• Railgun
• Guided
• Autogun
• Energy

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Battlecruiser core

Available Classes:

• Artillery
• Railgun
• Guided
• Autogun
• Energy
• EWAR

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Battleship Core

Available Classes:

• Artillery
• Railgun
• Guided
• Autogun
• Energy

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Capital Core

Available Classes:

• Artillery
• Railgun
• Guided
• Autogun
• Energy

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Station Core

Available Classes:

• Artillery
• Railgun
• Guided
• Autogun
• Energy

Fighter/Drone Core (Small Grid)

Currently unused. Might be added later.