So I love the game and its mechanics. Ship building is fun and you can be an artist or an engineer. Combat is simple and exciting. Balancing your ship is not a headache at all. I was able to build and balance my first ship with the help of the side stats bar with great ease. Love it.
I just have a few things that I would love to see in this game.
1. Reverse Engineering: The ability to take mods and turrets that you find and revers engineer to base types of those turrets and mods.
2. Research and Development: Take base blueprints of turrets and mods and improve your understanding of them through research and resource consumption.
3. Mod and Turret Production: The ability to mass produce base level turrets and mods, and then upgrade them through the research mechanic to upgrade them.
4. General Production: The ability to produce every item in the game that can be traded would make markets in the game more susceptible to player influence. To go into a system with a station that you control and begin producing small arms, or beef cakes, or textiles, or carbon nano tubes would be powerful. Eventually you will see a player driven economy that can encourage trade rather than just straight out piracy.
5.Weapons Scaling: I love the weapons selections given in the game. Already there are so many with so many variations that its hard to get the same weapon twice. I would however like to see scaled weapons. The 1x1x1 works for smaller ships but being able to scale them to a 3x3x1 and 5x5x2 or even doing a spinal mount would be awesome. I foresee a frigate class ship with several smaller turrets taking out the riffraff buzzing about my ship while I line up my spine mounted extended rail-gun that I scaled 1x1x10 and punching through the enemy hull with the force of 3 Hiroshima bombs. That would be cool. Also for weapons and scaling I would love to see missiles and torpedoes as well as point defense guns.
6. Player Jump-gates: I would love to find some random system off the grid with nothing in it but a few rocks and set my station up and a jump-gate that costs a little to go through. Of course you would have to build two and the range would depend on mods and the materials used. You could set up defense platforms to thwart off your enemies or even a jammer to slow the charge up of the FTL drive to a crawl and some sort of engine dampener to slow sub-light as well.
7. Propulsion Jamming: Ya it sounds like eve online but with how fast you can move and warp in and out of systems, catching an enemy is almost impossible. The first of these technologies that would be cool would be a Jump point beacon. You build a small station with this component in a system and it will last for a set time before needing to be recharged or use some resource. When a ship jumps into the system they will jump within a 1km - 20km range depending on the size of the component built on the station. Now when ships warp into the system they will be forced to this location. The second of these devices would be similar to the first only with the opposite effect. While you are within the field your warp charge-up will be reduced to .01% of its speed or something like that, depending on its size. The last of these devices would reduce the engine acceleration of any craft within the area of effect. This will allow you to build traps in your home system to prevent pirates from just jumping in on top of you.
8. Special Fuels: The base resources are awesome and simple, but what if you could mine them and refine them into fuels to add power-ups to ships and special devices. This would give them a little more depth than just construction materials and all the extra crap you save over time from salvaging.
9. Ship Production: Ships produced at a shipyard should cost less than if you are building them in deep space. Ships should also take some time to construct. The starter drone should have the lowest base value construction ability and should take a long time to build a battleship or even a frigate. A construction component part would be cool with scalable effectiveness in efficiency, price, time to build, and maybe even max size.
10. Captain Tactics: I would love to be able to have captains with personality and tactics. I can order to focus fire on one target, or occupy an enemy fleet like a swarm of bees, or ram the enemy ships if the captain's ship is reduced to low health or looses its weapons, or flee if the ship becomes to damaged. A captain is a ships brain, I would like to give him one.
11. Scalable Command Structure: I love that captains are needed to crew other craft that you are not piloting, but for a ship with 6 crew a captain is a bit excessive. How about giving a lieutenant or a commander the chance to command their own little escort. A captain would be required on one of them and he could command the squadron. Admirals would be required for fleet command on your ship or in larger fleets. A 3 lieutenants to one commander and 3 commanders to one captain.
12. Crew Personality: It would be cool to be able to train your crew for specific tasks or even make them more efficient at what they do. i know that fewer are required to run the guns and engines and things like that but what about making accuracy better for gunners and engine thrust better for engineers or power production better for technicians. I would love to make my crew a bit more dynamic as well, with names, and small histories, and personality quirks. This concept works well in games like Star Command and FTL, Star Trek online etc...
13. Crew Training and Promotion: The leveling is cool but what if you could have the option to train normal crew to become specialized and specialized crew to become even more specialized then that would be awesome. All automated of course. The only thing the player would have to do would be to select the crewman and put them on that training path.
14.Drones: I have seen some touch on this but I will also put in my two cents. Drones would be cool as support craft and lighter fighters or miners. Not as efficient but slightly less expensive. Pilots are an arm and a leg at the moment.
15. Asteroid Regeneration: I know in the real world resources are finite, but also in the real world resources in space are ridiculously plentiful. A single 500 meter asteroid has more platinum based metals in it than 10 earths. and its mostly iron and nickle. Regenerate the resources or give the option for it in a world.
16. Specified Jump Coordinates: Its nice to be able to jump into another system and just pop out on the other end but what if you could choose the coordinates of that system that you jump into? That would be awesome.
So far that's all I got. I know its ridiculous but you have the potential to do what No Mans Sky failed at doing in a lot of ways. I'm sure you aren't to keen on planets or that type of exploration but you could, and you could set it up to be far more direct than just a random race to the center. People like to cooperate and they failed at that.
Comment if you guys like what you see or why you don't think it would work. I like a good discussion.
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Camulus777
So I love the game and its mechanics. Ship building is fun and you can be an artist or an engineer. Combat is simple and exciting. Balancing your ship is not a headache at all. I was able to build and balance my first ship with the help of the side stats bar with great ease. Love it.
I just have a few things that I would love to see in this game.
1. Reverse Engineering: The ability to take mods and turrets that you find and revers engineer to base types of those turrets and mods.
2. Research and Development: Take base blueprints of turrets and mods and improve your understanding of them through research and resource consumption.
3. Mod and Turret Production: The ability to mass produce base level turrets and mods, and then upgrade them through the research mechanic to upgrade them.
4. General Production: The ability to produce every item in the game that can be traded would make markets in the game more susceptible to player influence. To go into a system with a station that you control and begin producing small arms, or beef cakes, or textiles, or carbon nano tubes would be powerful. Eventually you will see a player driven economy that can encourage trade rather than just straight out piracy.
5.Weapons Scaling: I love the weapons selections given in the game. Already there are so many with so many variations that its hard to get the same weapon twice. I would however like to see scaled weapons. The 1x1x1 works for smaller ships but being able to scale them to a 3x3x1 and 5x5x2 or even doing a spinal mount would be awesome. I foresee a frigate class ship with several smaller turrets taking out the riffraff buzzing about my ship while I line up my spine mounted extended rail-gun that I scaled 1x1x10 and punching through the enemy hull with the force of 3 Hiroshima bombs. That would be cool. Also for weapons and scaling I would love to see missiles and torpedoes as well as point defense guns.
6. Player Jump-gates: I would love to find some random system off the grid with nothing in it but a few rocks and set my station up and a jump-gate that costs a little to go through. Of course you would have to build two and the range would depend on mods and the materials used. You could set up defense platforms to thwart off your enemies or even a jammer to slow the charge up of the FTL drive to a crawl and some sort of engine dampener to slow sub-light as well.
7. Propulsion Jamming: Ya it sounds like eve online but with how fast you can move and warp in and out of systems, catching an enemy is almost impossible. The first of these technologies that would be cool would be a Jump point beacon. You build a small station with this component in a system and it will last for a set time before needing to be recharged or use some resource. When a ship jumps into the system they will jump within a 1km - 20km range depending on the size of the component built on the station. Now when ships warp into the system they will be forced to this location. The second of these devices would be similar to the first only with the opposite effect. While you are within the field your warp charge-up will be reduced to .01% of its speed or something like that, depending on its size. The last of these devices would reduce the engine acceleration of any craft within the area of effect. This will allow you to build traps in your home system to prevent pirates from just jumping in on top of you.
8. Special Fuels: The base resources are awesome and simple, but what if you could mine them and refine them into fuels to add power-ups to ships and special devices. This would give them a little more depth than just construction materials and all the extra crap you save over time from salvaging.
9. Ship Production: Ships produced at a shipyard should cost less than if you are building them in deep space. Ships should also take some time to construct. The starter drone should have the lowest base value construction ability and should take a long time to build a battleship or even a frigate. A construction component part would be cool with scalable effectiveness in efficiency, price, time to build, and maybe even max size.
10. Captain Tactics: I would love to be able to have captains with personality and tactics. I can order to focus fire on one target, or occupy an enemy fleet like a swarm of bees, or ram the enemy ships if the captain's ship is reduced to low health or looses its weapons, or flee if the ship becomes to damaged. A captain is a ships brain, I would like to give him one.
11. Scalable Command Structure: I love that captains are needed to crew other craft that you are not piloting, but for a ship with 6 crew a captain is a bit excessive. How about giving a lieutenant or a commander the chance to command their own little escort. A captain would be required on one of them and he could command the squadron. Admirals would be required for fleet command on your ship or in larger fleets. A 3 lieutenants to one commander and 3 commanders to one captain.
12. Crew Personality: It would be cool to be able to train your crew for specific tasks or even make them more efficient at what they do. i know that fewer are required to run the guns and engines and things like that but what about making accuracy better for gunners and engine thrust better for engineers or power production better for technicians. I would love to make my crew a bit more dynamic as well, with names, and small histories, and personality quirks. This concept works well in games like Star Command and FTL, Star Trek online etc...
13. Crew Training and Promotion: The leveling is cool but what if you could have the option to train normal crew to become specialized and specialized crew to become even more specialized then that would be awesome. All automated of course. The only thing the player would have to do would be to select the crewman and put them on that training path.
14.Drones: I have seen some touch on this but I will also put in my two cents. Drones would be cool as support craft and lighter fighters or miners. Not as efficient but slightly less expensive. Pilots are an arm and a leg at the moment.
15. Asteroid Regeneration: I know in the real world resources are finite, but also in the real world resources in space are ridiculously plentiful. A single 500 meter asteroid has more platinum based metals in it than 10 earths. and its mostly iron and nickle. Regenerate the resources or give the option for it in a world.
16. Specified Jump Coordinates: Its nice to be able to jump into another system and just pop out on the other end but what if you could choose the coordinates of that system that you jump into? That would be awesome.
So far that's all I got. I know its ridiculous but you have the potential to do what No Mans Sky failed at doing in a lot of ways. I'm sure you aren't to keen on planets or that type of exploration but you could, and you could set it up to be far more direct than just a random race to the center. People like to cooperate and they failed at that.
Comment if you guys like what you see or why you don't think it would work. I like a good discussion.
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