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We are talking about special maneuvers here which would logically scale in difficulty with the frame size of the ship. I haven't run the numbers on this yet and I'd be curious if anyone has but I'm wondering how many levels or tiers would it take to max out the upgrades on say a medium frame ship? My thought being that you can only pack so much gear into a certain frame size.
So just pulling numbers out of the air...am I going to max out a medium frame ship at tier 11 or 12 or so and because my party doesn't want to have to hire extra crew to run a larger ship then the PCs continue to level up and not invest to raise the tier of their ship further. If that's the case the PCs skills of course continue to increase thus making special maneuvers easier. Following this line if they then decide to increase the tier of their ship they're going to have to go to a larger frame size and with the increase in tier the DCs increase but the size of the frame increases as well...which you could argue is a logical progression for the DC increase.
I don't believe the intent was that PCs are REQUIRED to increase the tier of their ship unless they choose to. If we look at the ship examples presented in the CRB it seems more the case that a ship can exist at whatever tier sort of in a vacuum. In other words a ships teir is more along the lines of a tech level or how "good" it is.