An alternative to racial bonuses

Instead of a racial bonus system, which often ends in someone just trying to get a bonus that overpowers everyone else or a half-attempt to create something unique for a rolling system some players don't care about. I recommend using an alternative.

Using a set list(albeit large) of fleet doctrine bonuses. The ideas of these fleet doctrine bonuses would enable players to pick one that best suits their nation, giving them a unique way to set up their fleet while still maintaining overall fairness across the board.

Some examples of this include:

"Small ships, big dicks"
+ all ships smaller than a cruiser gain a +1 to their attack roll, and destroyers get +1 AC
-not able to produce ships larger than a cruiser, other than a carrier

"Carrier fleet doctrine"
+carriers get 1 free extra hanger and super carriers get 2 free extra hangers
-battleships and Dreadnoughts take a negative -1 and -2 AC respectively

"Supersize me"
+ ships larger than a cruiser gain +1 AC, and +10 HP
-ships smaller than a cruiser gain -1 to AC, and -1 to ATT

"Planet Killers"
+battleships and Dreadnoughts get +1 AC and Dreadnoughts gain +2 ATT
-not able to produce Supercarriers, and ships smaller than a cruiser take -1 AC

"Sneaky peaky like"
+all ships gain a +2 to attack when exiting stealth, and gain a +1 bonus to stealth checks
- all ships -1 AC


This list could go on a lot longer to fit anything from electronic warfare, to ultra tank fleets, to fleets designed to hit and run. The fleet doctrine would be applied to a race/nation as a whole. And as you can see allows specialization in certain areas.

Any thoughts?

Hold it up for now, we need to make the original system easy before we move onto anything else, I know we talked about it over PMs but this post is just to keep everyone else involved.