So we have a turret rotation lock block, ship blueprints, and so on, but I feel we lack something that would make swapping turrets so much easier.
I suggest thee the Turret Slot block! Available as a pre-fab block for each size factor (associated to tech level, iirc), these could be placed on your ship and not do anything to it physically, beyond showing something similar to a holographic block and preventing placing other blocks that would otherwise make the placement of a turret invalid. All of this would be available in the standard ship building screen.
Placing such a block, beyond "reserving" the spot for a turret, would create an empty slot in the ship's UI where you assign numbers to turrets. This slot should show the maximum turret size in its tooltip as well as the supporting block's material. The menu should now show your turrets' inventory and allow for simple drag and dropping of turrets into these slots, placing the turret there (or removing it!) without having to go through build mode.
Furthermore, it may be of interest to integrate a short string field when placing these blocks where players may write a few words to describe the position of the slot. This information would also appear in the tooltip when mousing over a slot in the UI. Alternatively, it may be interesting to allow players to color those blocks and have the slot display its color in the UI as the background for that slot.
This would allow for schematics to save turret emplacements and allow for easy and convenient swapping of turrets. The number of blocks that can be placed should not be tied to your ship's maximum capacity, only the actual act of placing turrets in them should be restricted by your ship's limit. This avoids issues with swapping modules or building that ship from a blueprint and losing most of the turret emplacements.
All of this saves a lot of time and messing around trying to select turrets and shifting them around as well as making life a lot easier when you want to upgrade turrets or whatever.
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So we have a turret rotation lock block, ship blueprints, and so on, but I feel we lack something that would make swapping turrets so much easier.
I suggest thee the Turret Slot block! Available as a pre-fab block for each size factor (associated to tech level, iirc), these could be placed on your ship and not do anything to it physically, beyond showing something similar to a holographic block and preventing placing other blocks that would otherwise make the placement of a turret invalid. All of this would be available in the standard ship building screen.
Placing such a block, beyond "reserving" the spot for a turret, would create an empty slot in the ship's UI where you assign numbers to turrets. This slot should show the maximum turret size in its tooltip as well as the supporting block's material. The menu should now show your turrets' inventory and allow for simple drag and dropping of turrets into these slots, placing the turret there (or removing it!) without having to go through build mode.
Furthermore, it may be of interest to integrate a short string field when placing these blocks where players may write a few words to describe the position of the slot. This information would also appear in the tooltip when mousing over a slot in the UI. Alternatively, it may be interesting to allow players to color those blocks and have the slot display its color in the UI as the background for that slot.
This would allow for schematics to save turret emplacements and allow for easy and convenient swapping of turrets. The number of blocks that can be placed should not be tied to your ship's maximum capacity, only the actual act of placing turrets in them should be restricted by your ship's limit. This avoids issues with swapping modules or building that ship from a blueprint and losing most of the turret emplacements.
All of this saves a lot of time and messing around trying to select turrets and shifting them around as well as making life a lot easier when you want to upgrade turrets or whatever.
Thoughts, comments, approval?
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