Khhmmm, I dont even know what u want :S
If you want that in the describtion of the vessle IN THE GAME it says all those things than I stand by my first comment. As you do build a fleet based on their capabilities, but  IMO you should found out those capabilities by yourself, with game experiance. There is just no fun if everything is right there for you

But I like the idea of vessle describtion in manuals or online sites. And that already is done with FO

When you put your cursor over a unit, it just gives a short description of the unit and its role instead of the amount of damage phasers do. That the player can figure out on his/her own. A short description, like this.



Besides, you guys did it with special weapons, why not do it with ships too? Novices don't have to use a special weapon to figure out exactly what it does.

Especially in a game where the exact roles of ships aren't well-outlined by their names. According to Wikipedia (I don't know if any of you guys wrote it, but here it is anyway)


-Wikipedia

But the game's a real time strategy game, not a guess-what-ship-is-good-against-what game.

I always thought the premise of strategy games was to defeat the enemy by capitalizing one's strengths, superior tactical manoeuvring, and having your force defeat an enemy's based on their strengths and weaknesses instead of trying to figure out what ship's good against which.

Besides, you don't need to figure out what's good against which unit - that's already given to you. You also don't have to try each station to figure out what that does.

Of course it does. Experience in things that can't be described, like resource management (not just who builds the bigger fleet but who builds the better fleet) build styles, base layout, guarding expansions, tactical manoeuvring...

the numbers are a level of its power, if you notice it also gives you he shield & hull points of that ship, this way you have an idea about how much of a beating it can both take and dish out.

i've been doing this for the odfs on my install of A2, and i can tell ya its quite hard & time-consuming. hard in that it takes a lot of thought to make up something believeable, and besides i think that the FO team have left that up to the imagination of the players, probs because its highly unlikely that everyone will agree on what it says. so make your own judgement on what you want the description to say, use your imagination.