TL:DR R15 implant should be R1 with changed statistics
Right now, the R15 implant is quite useless, the money/synergy boost is gained at the last rank, where you most likely will no longer need those. That is why I would like to suggest to make them the R1 implant where you will actually make good use of the boosts and where you need them.
The rest of the implants would get Current rank+1 so it’s just a matter of shoving things to the right.
On top of that suggestion, I would like to suggest to make the boost like this:
Empire:
Current: R15
Synergy gain +5%
Credit gain + 5%
Main weapon damage +5%
Suggested: R1
Synergy gain +10%
Credit gain +10%
Main weapon damage +5%
Federation:
Current: R15
Credit gain +10%
Hull&Shield strength +10%
Suggested: R1
Credit gain +20%
Hull&Shield strength +5%
Jericho
Current: R15
Synergy gain +10%
Missile damage +10%
Suggested: R1
Synergy gain +20%
Missile damage + 5%
This would make them a bigger impact on your progression early on, and would help you get further. The hull&shield increase might be slightly too high still though.
I feel that the current R15 implants are at the wrong position due to them coming too late, when you no longer really need the bonus they give. And since progression in this game is alreay (painfully) slow I feel that this might help get rid of it a bit.(Though further improvements to the current progression is needed)
The rest of the implants would get Current rank+1 so it’s just a matter of shoving things to the right.
Than you will have to shift all the ships to maintain current implant - ship relationship, on top of that changing r15 to r1 you are in a sense reverting the change to pre 0.9
The federation would make it quite OP and able to get near 70-80k EHP on engi’s/guards, which is why I wanted a 5%.
The jericho should be 5-10%, since you can nowadays spam missiles, so a 20% increase would be too much in my opinion.
And 5% main weapon damage has a smaller impact I feel than a 10% missile damage increase.
@xKostyan right now the R15 implant are quite useless, which is why I want them in a far better position near the beginning so progression is more quickly. The ships wouldn’t have to shift at all.
The R15 implant applies to all your ships. Once you get it, your T1 ships get a boost.
Nope, only the credit/synergy does, but when you already reached T15 with a faction, those are generally less of a problem. It would be a much better implant to have from the beginning of the game than the end.
Choosing those boosts would be great at the beginning. I hadn’t memorized the full description of the implants. But a synergy boost would be really helpful as well as automatic loyalty.