Time to increase airship components?

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I hate how they tease us by letting us build models of all 7 possible airship types so we can see what they look like when they're properly assembled, but only the lower three tiers (Bronco, Invincible, Enterprise) are actual possible ship combos. Even a full Invincible II is 3 points over the airframe capacity limit.

It's another smack in the face of all FC airship engineers that some of the recommended airship configurations in this thread are ugly as sin. My sense of aeronautical aesthetics cries at this.

Unfortunately the only way this is ever going to get fixed would to completely rework the airship stat system. I’d propose the following :

• Instead of stats being affected by individual airframe component, stats are freely allocated from a point pool up to a maximum rating of 150.
• This ‘airframe tuning capacity’ pool increases as each airship levels up. Additional ‘bonus’ capacity for all ships is unlocked by set amounts when your company builds a new set of airship parts of the same type for the first time (representing increased airship expertise and availability of improved components/techniques respectively). Tuning capacity would start at 350 for a level 1 airship with only Bronco parts constructed and would increase to say 500 for a level 50 airship with all 7 airship types constructed.
• Tuning an airship’s stats via the tuning capacity pool is done using a system similar to adjusting the stats on a relic weapon, requiring a requisite amount of airship repair materials (renamed to airship maintenance materials, as they will now be used to both repair and retune airships).

This way the incentive for building new airship parts shifts from getting optimal stats to increasing company airship tuning capacity. Companies will also be able to tune their fleet for specific goals of faster turnaround, increased collection, or greater exploration capability. Finally as individual components are no longer tied to specific stat ratings companies would be free to configure ships to their own design tastes without compromising airship stats.