Spore- & Blow Ship Rank swapped?

[flaser]

Description:

Expected behavior: Blow ships have long-range weaponry, so they should be further back in, at higher rank of the battle than the direct & close-range armed Spore ships.

Actual behavior: Blow ships should have a higher rank, possibly (unless the low is a Symbiot "feature") rank 4-6 like other "space artillery" ships (e.g. Vau/Human Dreadnoughts and Cruisers).

Game version: 1.51 vanilla

Steps to reproduce: Check units stats

[Xenotrenium]

This is an interesting one. Grappler rank = 1 Blow Ship rank = 2 Spore Ship rank = 3

Indeed, the Blow Ship would appear to have more longed ranged weaponry, but still comes between the Grapplers and the Spore Ship, leading to a somewhat inconsistency of the unit design rules of rank placement.

This can probably lead to some confusion as to battling the symbiots, seeing as Blow Ships are targeted before Spore Ships.

We have some options here: -Give Spore Ships the longer ranged attacks (what is a spore ship exactly?) -Alter the ranks to mirror the human counterparts

Good find, I believe it makes sense to alter the ranks as you describe. It may also be prudent to keep it as is, as the Symbiots are truly non-human as well.

What do people feel makes the most sense here?

[floralpond]

Is there a lore reason why symbiots might have a seemingly messed up ranking system? They are crazy aliens after all. Maybe Luxor knows 😁