I think they should grow in size & cost as the game/research progesses.

Also the armor should work differently, more like real life. Hit with a hammer and nothing happens, hit a thousand times and nothing happens. So you would need heavy guns or armor piercing to do damage. Breach the armor and then, maybe, apply the light weapon hits.  Easier said than done, but maybe light weapon fire can be ignored until hull damage is 50% or 75%.

I'd really advocate an Yamato-Class Battleship in one of the micro-expansions in a sort of a super-Kol that would cost 5000 credits, 600 metal, 600 crystal. It would be bigger, badder, and have 5 flak turrets built in. 

All three factions would get this "Super-battleship" type capital ship.

Of course the fundamental problem with capital ships remains that Capital ships just go down way too fast to Strike Craft (instantly replacable) and light frigate spam. A general faction wide buff to all capital ships in form of slightly more hull points as well as benefiting more from research upgrades and Flak turrets would greatly greatly help in making Cap ships play a better role in Sins.    

Ok, my suggestion of a bigger badder Capital Ship is this:

A cap ship with just roughly 20-25% more hull points and 10% more shields. It'll cost 5000 credits, 600 metal + 600 Crystal compared to 3000 credits and 400 m/crystal.It'll take up 90 logistics points. It cannot be one of the starting free capital ships. Only obtainable after the 2nd capital ship logistics point research.

It'll have marginally more firepower than a typical cap (20%) and Flak turrets (equal to about 3 Flak Frigates)

It'll be able to carry 3 strike craft upgradable to 4, and it'll have special abilities such as the Ion Bolt, Flak Burst, and other (direct combat abilities) to make it a real battlewagon.

It'll by no means be invincible, it'll still go down to spam and in fact might be somewhat of a showpeice. It'll be like the super star destroyer in Star Wars or the Yamato in WW2, both went down due to being outnumbered and lost to strike craft spam. (lol) 

The heavy logistics points and huge cost of the ship will essentially make this ship unspammable. It'll be most useful as a "tank" to draw in fire while other ships take out the enemy ships. Because of its only marginally better firepower, it won't make sense to make more than 1 or 2 at max.

This is a good suggestion, I know many people will like.

The Rebel Alliance in Star Wars spammed Strike Craft and you know it!

They could be a man and duke it out, capital ship to capital ship with the Star Destroyers because they were weak.

Sounds like a very very cool idea!!  I like it! Now all we have to do is resize a cap from each race, say twice the size. Five times might be a little much, but hey, haha, we could give it a try and see if we like it or not.    And then beef up the specs like you were saying and voila!!  Instant Bad Capital!!    We have the tools right here in the forum, and i have used resize and the text converter to work with the meshes, but im no pro, just a newbie messing around.    But its fun!!

-Teal

  Just an idea, i know several people have made bigger planets. But with the resize tool, wouldn't it be easier to make the ships "smaller"?  I mean half their size, right? then the planets become bigger by comparison, and the ships still retain their detail at 1x or 1.5x close up view. Of course we might have to rescale the beams and guass gun shells though, as they might appear way to big!!  I'm working on a Starbase mod for 1.12 and the base is 5x bigger, and the weapons look way too small, i mean the beams and plasma bursts. So im looking at increasing the beam width, but havent looked at the plasma's yet, so dont know how im going to try that one.

But smaller ships across the board for all races, might make for an interesting play. Gravity wells, will be twice as large then, haha, and we could make the ships faster, well, haha, i would have to tinker and see what looks right, but that might be a maybe. 

Small might be very cool!! 

-Teal

alight when i posted this i said i want the ships bigger but sum1 said that it would become unrealistic? wtf? this entire game is unrealistic! i just want it to be cooler and have more bang for my buck you know. capital ships are weak but if they were stronger with added guns(flak, gun batteries, plasma turrets, mac guns) the first sight of a capital ship should strike fear in you and you should be like oh fuck a capital ship. and if you think this would make them cheap and that pple would just make a small fleet of unbeatable cap ships then there are ways to level out the playing field what i am proposing is that they just need to be bulkier, badass, and a real threat when they enter the field of battle. am i right or what?

Maybe in one of the micro-expansion we could get a new super-capital ship for each race? The capital ships are huge already, just zoom in to a fighter, and turn the camera towards the capital ships. The capital ships in Sins are a lot bigger than the ones in Homeworld 2, for example, but look smaller due to the scope of the game.

I really wish there was a size variance in planets though. I'm pretty sure the universe doesn't have a standardized planet size

To be honest I dont know why everyone always want a bigger ship. Once you get your super ship then someone wants a super super ship and those good old classic Caps/Frigates/Cruisers get forgotten. There is no need or a Uber ship in SINS. Unless you mod it. 

Like I said in Post #3. We look forward to your mod.

Stop telling people to mod it themselves, people post in here because they OBVIOUSLY want it to become mainstream! 

You're not gonna be able to get a multiplayer game among strangers for mods making them very limited in playability. 

I don't mind better and bigger ships, what I want is more estheically better looking ships, or update to the current image of the ships, if they can create more ships, they can certainly find ways to make the ships look better

Couldn't we technically just make the planets and stars bigger?