Is Corvette-Class Starship Worth it?

1. Design uniquenes - You are basically able to build anything you want and the procces is so fun.

2.Combat potential - If positron ejector array (deadeye cannon), phase beam or infra-knife weapon system is fully upgraded (3 exterior modules of the weapon, all it's techs and 3 upgrades) your DPS becomes huge (other weapon systems just not that good).

3. Co-op friendly - The ship can carry several people, so you can travel and explore with your friends.

4. Higher stats - Some maxed out corvette`s stats can be approx 1.5x higher than maxed out starship`s.

5. Mission radar - Identical to nexus mission radar, except for mission list depends on system you are currently in.

6. Storage crates - It is possible to set 10 Storage moduls inside a corvette-class starship (automatically connected to your storage crates in freighter or base).

7. Living walls - You can build one or several livng walls to grow and harvest plants.

8. Hazard Protection Unit and Health Station - You can build and use them to recharge your exosuit`s hazard protection and health.

9. Nutrient Processor - you can make really cozy flying kitchen with this thing, just make sure its placed in ambassador class hab.

10. Autopilot and spacewalk - Pretty useless feutures, but anyway it`s cool free bonus.

11. Launch fuel economy - It is possible to leave pilot seat in mid-flight, so you can skydive on a planet without landing your ship and then return by using teleporter.

12. Free assembling and units farming - You can find some parts for free and assemble them into like 10.000.000 units corvette.

1. Tech slots - If you want your corvette fully upgraded you need at least 40 tech slots, which means you need a lot storage augmentations or huge amount of units. Also there are class limit, that means you can`t get those 40 tech slots if your corvette-ship is lower than A-class.

2. Upgrading class - To upgrade corvette`s class from C to S you need 85.000 nanites. That`s a lot (ofc chances of assembling S-class corvette are super-duper low).

3. Parts obtaining - If you want to build something but ugly box you need to spend couple of hours to get parts from salvaged scrap. But worst thing about that is some parts are expidition-exclusive.

3. Leaving the ship - To do so, you need to walk out on your own, that might be a problem if you build huge corvette.

4. Visiting a pirate or abandoned station - There are just no proximity teleports at such stations, so you need to run towards NPCs for like 20 sec, same if you want to go back to your ship.

5. Maneuverability (not a stat) - Controling corvette feels heavier and it is harder to perform sharp cornering than any starship, so you need to learn how to control the ship.

If you are about to build your own corvette and looking for inspiration here are my personal designs.

Class - S
Damage Potential - 222.2
Shield Strenght - 491.7
Hyperdirve Range - 2254.6
Manoeuvrability - 1688.0

Class - S
Damage Potential - 254.0
Shield Strenght - 477.0
Hyperdrive Range - 1916.7
Manoeuvrability - 2065.1