
Heres a couple Technologies or perhaps mini technologies - that dont have a huge effect on game play but may enhance combat strategy and tactics.
Torpedo Resistant Hull
For a small cost of space but a lot of finanial cost you can design ships which have a high-tensile alloys which are stronger than standard armour and reduce the damage that torpedoes do to a ships armor and hull
Torpedo damage against armor could be reduced by 25%
Torpedo damage against the hull could be reduced by 35%
Other damage could be reduced by 10% against hull and armour just to be fair
This tech would be mainly used for increasing the survivability of large expensive cap ships
Stealth Design
This tech would give the smallest radar cross section possible for a ship of X size allowing it to remain undetected more easily. The downside of this design is that the hull strength is reduced by 15% and tonnage by 10%.
This design may allow each ship size to have the same visibility as the next size down ship. So a battleship has the same 'sensor visibility' as a cruiser; cruiser as a destroyer......
Following from MoO2 ships are detected correponding to their size and I'm modelling this idea off that but the dev team may have a different way of incorporating sensors into freeorion
Only exception is for ships larger than battleships which are simply too large for this design to be practicle
Employing the tech would also give a bonus to a ships velocity making the design a must for assault groups and/or solo raiders.
Advanced Miniaturization/Compartment Design
This design makes use of your empires best engineers and ship designers who employ the most advanced technology and theories to miniaturize ship components and minimize the complexity of ship structure and systems. The end result is to increase a ships tonnage by for eg 15% and reduce component size by 20%.
Advanced Miniaturization combined with Stealth design would make a dangerous combination for large ships which can move around more stealthily and yet have the same payload as a standard ship of that size.
I'll leave that there for now. Feedback most welcome
