Converted Hangar

Up to date for latest version, 0.97a.

Converted Hangar
Common Hullmod
5,000¢
Description
Converts the ship's standard shuttle hangar to house a fighter bay. The improvised flight deck, its crew, and the related machinery function at a pace below that of a dedicated carrier. Increases fighter refit time by 1.5x, and the fighter replacement rate both decays and recovers 1.5x more slowly. In addition, bombers returning to rearm (or fighters returning to repair) take 40% of their base time to relaunch, where it normally takes under a second Increases the minimum crew by 20 to account for pilots and fighter crews. Increases the ship's deployment points and supply cost to recover from deployment by 1 for every 5 ordnance points spent on fighters, or by at least 1 point. This comes with a proportional increase in combat readiness lost per deployment.
S-mod bonus: Increases the rate at which the fighter replacement rate recovers by 10% for cruisers, and by 25% for capital ships. No added effect for destroyers.
Short description
Improvised fighter bay for non-carriers.
OP cost
Frigate
Destroyer	10
Cruiser	10
Capital	10
Categories	Fighters
Game data
ID	converted_hangar
Tier	1
Tags	special, non_phase, merc, standard

Overview

Converted Hanger is a hullmod that can be installed on any Destroyer-class, Cruiser-class and Capital-class ship, except Phase ships or ships that already have proper fighter bays.

Notes

• Adds a Fighter bay to the ship.
• Fighter replacement rate decays and recovers 1.5x slower.
• Increases fighter refit time by 1.5x. For bombers, time to rearm is also increased to 40% of modified refit time.
• Increases minimum crew requirement by 20.
• Increases Deployment Point cost of the ship by Ordnance Point value of the fighter wing divided by 5 rounded up, with minimum of 1.
• Ships with Vast Hangar receive no penalties from the Converted Hangar.

Tips and strategies

The following section contains user-submitted suggestions, these may be inaccurate or outdated.

• Provides a way to obtain fighter capabilities without needing proper carriers.
• Can be used to spam cheaper fighters, albeit at a lower efficiency than proper carriers.

Changelog

Patch 0.96: Reworked, no penalties to fighters, increased refit/replacement rate and DP of the ship instead Patch 0.95.1a:  Fighter damage taken penalty reduced to 25% (was: 50%) Fighter speed penalty reduced to 25% (was: 33%) Patch 0.9:  Removed fighter replacement rate penalty Can now re-launch returned fighters quickly, i.e. useful for bombers Fighters have reduced stats and d-mod overlay as if the ship had a Defective Manufactory d-mod (-33% speed, +50% damage taken) OP cost for bombers increased by 100%; by 50% for all other fighters