Yeah, but thats only a small part of the whole cargos thing… and i’m going to explain it, again, if you want read it
[size=90]<< The Cargo Containers, Antimatter Tanks and Cargo Ships with Negative Costs is a whole new idea/experiment called The Cargo Division (as i call it).
It is intended to be a THIRD side in the GSB battles, i mean, Your Combat Fleet, The Enemy Combat Fleet and now, The Defenseless/unlucky commercial ships that are begin escorted and/or intercepted in to the space battlefield.
Thats the Sci-Fi view of the thing, your fleet and your allied transports, and the enemy fleet. >>[/size]
If we look at the gaming view, Cargo stuff may look different, but, again, let me try to explain you how it works:
First, we have Antimatter Tanks. They have a little “negative cost” [size=80](<- i will explain this below)[/size] but if they go down with the ship, they will make a REALLY big boom, killing to everyone around with its powerful shockwave.
In the other hand we have Cargo Containters, they dont have explosive power and they can act as a light armour, but the most important thing here, is that they have the highest negative cost. Why Negative? Its simple:
Your fleet (F) = + Cost
Your cargo ships (C) = - Cost
F + (-C) = Less Total Fleet Cost
In fact, the cargo ships idea is an exchange of deployment space for more credits, if you have more credits you can equip your ships with more expensive and powerful stuff, always keeping the total amount of ships.
Think on cargo ships as some poor commercial convoys that were unlucky enough to get intercepted by enemies. As fast as the transports capintains notice that they cannot do another thing than face the threat with just a few low power weapons (like throwing rocks to a plasma shield) they will try in a desesperate last kamikaze effort to take the enemy, and everything around, with them.
But obviously, there are several ways to take the advantage with just a few of these cargo ships stuff, experimented commanders will archeve memorable tactical encounters with them ^^