Tali wrote:
You cant carry as much stuff on the Defiant.
I was thinking about the Defiant recently in this context. It might be a Tier 10 version of a shuttle that's normally Tier 5. I could certainly buy that a Tier 10 ship is more advanced than a Tier 5 (of the same frame) and therefore has higher DCs for repair, piloting, systems, etc. As someone else pointed out, I'm having a hard time reconciling that with a Captain struggling more to give someone an order, but aside from that type of incongruity, if the DCs just scaled effectively, the rest seems plausible to me.
The end result of the Tier model, I'll note, is that I'm designing ships backwards - I give them the equipment that I want them to have, and then back-calculate what Tier that makes the ship (i.e., how difficult is this ship to crew). In turn, that gives me knowledge on what level the PCs need to be in order to fly one (or fight one).
