Upgrading sentinel ship class

[Giacomo]

I had an A class sentinel ship with core damage of 300. When I upgraded it to S class it's core damage dropped to 257. Is this normal? I thought stats should increase with class, what am I missing?

[GenSec39]

In terms of "is this even possible?" - yes, this is normal.
In terms of "is this a good result?" - NO, it's not normal, it's horrible result.

You see, each class for each type of starship has certain range of min and max base stats. But there is a catch - min stats for highher class can be lower than max stats for lower class. For example, if you were unlucky, you may get a ship with min stats for S class, which are worse than max for A class - that's exactly what happened in your case.

[MaximumEffort]

I wouldnt worry either way. You can still shred Sentinel Freighters quite easily if you upgrade one of your main weapons.

[GenSec39]

Originally posted by MaximumEffort:

I wouldnt worry either way. You can still shred Sentinel Freighters quite easily if you upgrade one of your main weapons.

I'm afraid he has to worry - he said goodbye to 50k nanites and got worse ship than he had.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

Originally posted by GenSec39:

Originally posted by MaximumEffort:

I wouldnt worry either way. You can still shred Sentinel Freighters quite easily if you upgrade one of your main weapons.

I'm afraid he has to worry - he said goodbye to 50k nanites and got worse ship than he had.

But he earned a supercharged slot......

[Giacomo]

That's really bad game design but the way you explained it makes sense. I guess I just have to keep trying

[mfan2k2]

In most cases, the bonus stat range for a ship is strictly higher when you upgrade class. There's a few cases where the bonus percentage is ~5 points lower between A class max and S class min, so generally even then you don't see "upgrade" downgrades unless you go looking for them, but the damage bonus percentage for Sentinels is 15 points lower for the S class min vs the A class max, a trait shared only with the shield bonus of solars.

The addition of a 4th supercharged slot is still probably worth it if you want to use that particular ship, but if you're already ship hunting might as well at least see if you can find a better version of that interceptor.