I know the dev's sometimes read this sub so I want to start off by saying thank you for making such an awesome game!
I wanted to lay out my thoughts so far and things that I would love to see added to the game. Let me know what you think.
Claimable Ships
I think the current system of claimable ships works in quite an unusual way. Most of the ships that are claimable have such a bare minimum structure and functionality but say for example a Military Alliance ship that gets killed by boarding pirates in your sector and their ship becomes abandoned, these ships are often in perfect working order with all systems active and it would be nice to perhaps claim these ships with maybe even future options of trading them back to the corresponding faction that lost them for a reward or reputation increase.
Ship Variation
I would like to see some ship traits/bonuses for running certain types of ships. I.E If i wanted to run a small Frigate style ship (1tile) then it should have some perks to it to make it a more viable option. I haven't thought too much about what these traits or perks would be but maybe something along the lines of XX% chance to be missed by incoming weapons for a small ship.
Weapons
I think the game has a fantastic opportunity to add in various ship weapon types for example,
- Laser Cannons (Deals High damage to Shields than Hull)
- Rockets (Deals High damage to Hull than Shields)
- and the current guns in the game could be like the all rounders that do medium damage to each.
This gives us more options to customise our ships and their load-outs. With something like this id like to see a revisit to the current 'System point' system to allow more versatility and options, perhaps a way to increase the scope to have more points and perhaps even some ship bonuses for having fewer points as mentioned earlier with ship perks/traits.
That's all my thoughts for now - this is not a negative post by any means. This game is incredible and through my many hours of play so far i couldn't help but ponder these thoughts of how it could be even more so. Also - Alpha 9 looks awesome so far! Strong Additions.
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