I am going to attempt to detail the method that I have determined to create starships for Star Fleet Battles. The system that I came up with is very similar to that used by FASA's Ship Construction Manual. I figured that if that system worked with fairly regular success, why not base it off of that.
And while some of the things present in my system have no basis to support it in actual terms of SFB, they were necessary in order to come up with a balance. The first and foremost thing that you will notice like this is Ship Computer Packages. No real basis in SFB, but still necessary in order to give me something to guage other things with.
Currently, I am capable of creating almost all Federation ships EXCEPT for PF and Interceptors, and X-ships. These are the two areas that still elude my cursory checks, and will require greater thought before I can include them. Mind you, the system I am going to detail is rather accurate to the system available for Federation ships. It does not allow gross fluctuations in ship power or combat power. I do have the intent of creating an "expansion" that would allow for bigger and nastier ships, but at this time, only the basics are down. It could be possible, I guess, to simply use the BPV calculation formula to create ships however you want, but these are not guaranteed to fall anywhere near "accurate".
It is also my intent to have the ship generation for all the races. This is quite a time consuming effort, though, as I literally go through EVERY ship SSD for that race in order to come to these calculations. Currently I have only a couple of the races done, and fewer yet on the computer. Bear with me.
| Federation | Klingon | Romulan |
| Kzinti | Lyran | Hydran |
| Gorn | Instellar Concordium | Tholian |
| Orion | Andromedan | WYN |
| LDR | Jindarian | Seltorian |
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