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General Discussion / Heavy Missile Mount

« on: April 09, 2015, 06:01:02 PM »

I'd like to see some more options for the heavy missile mount. Right now all there is is Cyclone Reaper and Hurricane LRM. Both of these are good weapons, but them being the only weapons for the mount leaves it kinda underwhelming. I suppose I can stick a medium missile weapon in the mount, but that is kind of a weak option. Small and medium missile mounts give lots of options in terms of weapons and role, but large only has two roles, and they're both HE missiles that are only really useful against capitals.

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Suggestions / Consignment Shipping

« on: October 26, 2014, 03:27:07 PM »

So there's lots of people who don't like the way that the trading system works, because you can't ferry goods between markets for profit. I'm personally okay with this state of affairs, because it feels silly and is very very tedious doing this for money(Hours spent grinding in EV Nova come to mind). So what I thought of as a mechanic is consignment shipping. Basically some party pays you to transport their goods between two locations. Probably in Starsector these would mostly be in-faction routes, with maybe some arranged inter-faction trade as well. It means that you can haul stuff around in most cases, while avoiding the sort of spreadsheet tedium, price analysis and occasional crazy unbalanced routes that you get in open trading.

Basically, if to do a trade run it requires that some party that's exempt from tarrifs to hire you, then it allows for much more control and direction of trade runs. As a small shipper you have to depend on rare opportunity to bring in cash, but as a big, respected shipper it's possible to just haul huge loads for reasonable cash. There's more room for balance fine-tuning in how opportunites are generated, and it can allow for more decision making- you might want an easy big money trade run, but if the hegemony doesn't offer one, you might have to take a risky run or just search elsewhere.