Ships

Ships in Novus Aeterno will be customizable, with the player being able to choose the size, components, and even having limited choice over the look of a ship.

Hulls
A hull is the shell of a ship while also determining the basic stats of a ship. There will be multiple versions of the same hull with different number of component slots, with the possibility of the slots being in different areas, and the armour strength varying. Confirmed hulls Corvettes, Destroyer, Cruisers, Battleships, Dreadnaughts, Super Frieghters, and Capital ships

Corvettes
Being the smallest and cheapest, corvettes are quick and easy to manufacture, and thus make for excellent scouts. They are agile and make for excellent flanking ships. Be warned however with their weak armour and limited weapon slots, they will not last long in a fight. Some players perfer to mass produce these ships and 'zerg' their opponent, but with a few well aimed shots a player can cause a chain reaction of explosions and have a tight knit fleet of corvettes vaporize. If a player wishes to specialize in corvettes it is wise to have multiple groups going in at once from multiple vectors causing the enemy to unfocus their firepower.

Dreadnaughts
Dreadnoughts are (currently) the strongest ship in the game. A dreadnought has extremely powerful frontal armor but its engines take 2x damage, so it is practically unbeatable unless you can outmaneuver it and get behind it with a corvette or some other small ship. The dreadnought has over 4 fontal weapon slots and 2 weapon slots for each side. It has 2 shield slots and 2 engine slots and 2 slots for either ftl drives or troop transports.

Command Points
The balancing between old and new players comes down to the Command Points (CP) system.

The cap on CP is the same for any player within Novus AEterno, no matter how long they have been playing the game. Each Ship a player builds will have a CP cost determined by the strength of the components the player has decided to place on the hull. Stronger components and more High-tech components will cost more CP. A veteran player might have greater tech than a new player, but the CP costs of their ships will also be a lot greater.