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Hello every body. I have an idea to make ships more interesting and functional. What if every ship and structure could be upgraded like the star bases. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
No... No offense, but it would ruin the current concept of everything.. The only thing I could imagine this working for would be orbital turrets... If you redid them, you could have those as customizable... Perhaps some be anti-cap and have others as anti-medium... Idk, just an idea...
No offense taken this is what the post is for. and yeah that is kinda what i had in minde.
for Cap ships, it MIGHT work. MIGHT mind you. It would take a bit of fiddling (doesn't it always?), but it could possibly work.
But the problem is, caps already have a system... I like it and don't want it redone...
True, but maybe there could be a new kind of turret that could be upgraded with three different kinds of weapons (anti-SC, anti-Caps, anti-frigates/cruisers) and a shield/HP upgrade. They should also have three upgrade slots (four with research)
if you made a special kind of cap (like a titan), it MIGHT be more useful to have this, because then the purpose of the Titan can be more specialized.
But I agree, REDOING the system is a VERY bad idea. However, with entrenchment you COULD add researchable things that affect the mesh of a ship (make it look like it's got more guns), or add a passive ability.
But I still agree, redoing is a bad idea.
In my mod, I am designing multiple turrets... Everything from anti-SC to anti-cap would be there...
I have to say some of the responses in this thread offend my modding sensibilities.
Mod what ever you want to Mod, that someone else doesn't want the system changed is not a valid reason not to do it. The whole point of Modding is to change things.
mini rant aside
Your main issue whilst attempting something like this is that the modular nature of the starbase is specific to starbases. So it depend on how you want the system to work, if you want ships to have only one upgrade of a possible two or three, then you're essentially screwed, If you simply want to be able to upgrade the ships chunk by chunk as it were (say offense, defense, engines), then a mixture of research and unlocked abilities is your best bet, or alteast most player friendly bet, firstly because it means you can limit the research to a specific type of ship, secondly becasue it means you could upgrade the ship meshes as it happens (which is always cool), and thirdly because upgrading individual ships (even if feasible) would be tedious.
this would be brilliant for cap ships, i.e. can truly make them the way you wanted em
thanks for all the imput. and the titan idea is a good one if you don't minde i'll work on making that.
Well I for one would love to see something like this happen. Maybe a system where cruisers and frigates level up, like Cap ships do now, and based on level their dmg/shields/hull is higher or lower happens automatically, instead of having to upgrade them yourself). Don't know if this is even possible, but it sounds fun. 
-Trip
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