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Freighters, Fighters and Fun Rides

The goal of this mod is to sharpen the lines between the different vessel types. It tweaks all ships to better fit their designs and/or descriptions. Now, only the most expensive freighters have turn speeds that rival those of the cheapest fighters -- and some ships shouldn't consider combat at all. Fighters no longer have freighter class cargo space. Most of the niche ships (shuttle, mustang 8t, etc) now have a specialty and a big debuff. All of the Allrounders now have special debuffs, and some are more expensive. The EVA Jetsuit is now kind of amazing. Try it. It's cheap, even in Hard Mode -- just buy an ECM as soon as possible.

----------------Here's my vision of how this mod is meant to be played:
-freighters can't maneuver, but get plenty of missile capacity and cargo space and decent warp speeds to make quick getaways
-even some of the cheapest fighters can fly circles around most combatants in a 1v1, but they now lack turrets by default and have limited missile capacity and very, very limited cargo space
-the "fun rides" are for you grunt workers out there who just want a space taxi sim.
-the jetbikes and EVA Jetsuit are now perfectly suited for combat if you play defensively

Best when used with: Hard Mode, War Bigger Bounties, the custom ship mods, Space Evolved. This means missiles will be, basically, one-shot kills that need to hit a target worth at least 30k for you to make money. The 300k+ bounty missions in WBB are especially useful for acquiring quick funds. The custom ship mods give you an out if you need a good ship in the midst of all these debuffs. And Space Evolved is just beautiful.

Not compatible with: Missile World

Update: There was a bug that happened any time a missile exploded within the loaded map area, and another whenever a shipyard screen with a custom mod ship was loaded. These have both been fixed. A new game is NOT NECESSARY, but you might get a glitch where the top part of the space HUD (cargo/temp/etc) looks weird. To fix this, ditch some cargo the normal way (it should work) or sell at a station. Voila.