What is a battleship? Well, the first sentence from wikipedia says "A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns." Currently we have a lot of gun choices, but a tech 40 gun is still pretty small looking (and boring) for my battleship(consider my battleship is pretty huge). Visually, under the current conditions, I can build gunboats, frigates, corvettes, bigger gunboats, bigger frigates, bigger corvettes, armed cargo ships, and carriers. I think I am missing out on the whole aspects that defines ship classes of what to be destroyers, cruisers, and battleships.
I want to suggest the ability to build bigger turrets in certain size from turret factories, which adds more reasons for us to visit them and store components to build larger turrets should we run into a sector with one. I would like to see special guns built by these turret factories to have block size such as 2x6x2 destroyer batteries, 4x2x4 torpedo tubes, or 3x8x3 cruiser railguns.
These special turrets should have diminishing returns and exponential increase in cost the bigger they are, which will facilitates players to have a fleet of escort destroyers than all battleships. They can also be heavier, consumes more energy, inversely proportional firepower and hp the bigger they are, which in order to use these guns, players must choose to making a ship with less utility that sacrifice speed, computer cores, hyperspace drives, armors, or shields.
A server can also be made in a way that place an upper limit of special guns like these can be owned by each player. So in times when players stumble in a wrong sector, they won't be suddenly vastly overpowered by 40 special guns when they only have 3 for their fleet.
I think having special guns also gives players more things to work on, and adds more depth and rules to how gun placements should be instead of having them lining up linearly on a single flat gundeck. Imagine a traditional battleship, the ship have to turn and stay sideways to fire a full salvo, which will translate to in-game the player have to fly sideways and hold left ctrl in order to utilize all of the special guns.
What I currently have:
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What do everybody else thinks? You are more than welcomed to leave your thoughts in the comments.
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dwc
Big bad ships need big bad guns
What is a battleship? Well, the first sentence from wikipedia says "A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns." Currently we have a lot of gun choices, but a tech 40 gun is still pretty small looking (and boring) for my battleship(consider my battleship is pretty huge). Visually, under the current conditions, I can build gunboats, frigates, corvettes, bigger gunboats, bigger frigates, bigger corvettes, armed cargo ships, and carriers. I think I am missing out on the whole aspects that defines ship classes of what to be destroyers, cruisers, and battleships.
I want to suggest the ability to build bigger turrets in certain size from turret factories, which adds more reasons for us to visit them and store components to build larger turrets should we run into a sector with one. I would like to see special guns built by these turret factories to have block size such as 2x6x2 destroyer batteries, 4x2x4 torpedo tubes, or 3x8x3 cruiser railguns.
These special turrets should have diminishing returns and exponential increase in cost the bigger they are, which will facilitates players to have a fleet of escort destroyers than all battleships. They can also be heavier, consumes more energy, inversely proportional firepower and hp the bigger they are, which in order to use these guns, players must choose to making a ship with less utility that sacrifice speed, computer cores, hyperspace drives, armors, or shields.
A server can also be made in a way that place an upper limit of special guns like these can be owned by each player. So in times when players stumble in a wrong sector, they won't be suddenly vastly overpowered by 40 special guns when they only have 3 for their fleet.
I think having special guns also gives players more things to work on, and adds more depth and rules to how gun placements should be instead of having them lining up linearly on a single flat gundeck. Imagine a traditional battleship, the ship have to turn and stay sideways to fire a full salvo, which will translate to in-game the player have to fly sideways and hold left ctrl in order to utilize all of the special guns.
What I currently have:
What I like to see happen:
What do everybody else thinks? You are more than welcomed to leave your thoughts in the comments.
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