How about a shipthat has very weak base stats, has a low point cost, but is highly modifiable. Take a Lambda for example that has 2 attack, 1 defense, 2 hull, 2 shield and cost about 20 pts give or take. It flies about like a y-wing. But it has an upgrade bar that allows you to put just about whatever you want on it. Throw in some Title cards or modification cards that allow you to increase its base stats and/or movement. It gives you an option to pretty much make the ship whatever you want it to be.

Then maybe some elite pilots that have abilities that allow you to reduce the point cost of some uprgrades by 1, such as misiles, mines, torps. Or an ability that allows you to not be required to reveal what upgrades you've take unitl you use them in combat, although you would have to reveal the total point value of the ship. The ship would be kind of a sleeper and would leave your opponent guessing what kind of damage it could do.

You could use this ship as cheap, weak, canon fodder, or pimp your ride to the max and make it a real beast, or anything in between.

the thing is it allows u to have two missiles on the same ship or allows u to put a missile on a ship that doesnt normally have missiles. you could decrease the cost to two i suppose but then i will get flamed for making it too cheap. Vader or Maarek with two missiles anyone?

I'm thinking putting in a provision to allow ships to support each other in an attack. Dystopian Wars allows you to combine attacks from similar type weapons. Every weapon that supports adds half it's dice, rounded down. I played X-Wing and Tie Fighter extensively back in the day, and lost a few advanced ships (like a fully shielded Tie Defender) by simply getting ganged up on by a number of smaller crappy ships. It's a good tactical decision. You only get to make one attack with multiple fighters, but you have a better chance for your attack to have an effect. Would make a collection of 4-5 Academy pilots really dangerous.

Another way to shake up the Meta would be to have the b-wing and Tie Bomber and then Pilot expansion boosters for the wave 1 and 2 ships. IE new pilot cards and ship cards. along with new upgrades and R2,R5 droids etc.

I'd like to see faction-specific upgrades. Having all upgrades be neutral seems like an obvious ploy to make everyone buy one of everything. -.-