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Mods / Re: [0.95.1a] Exotica Technologies v1.0.8b
« on: June 13, 2022, 11:47:22 PM »
I had an idea about the Derelict and Remnant upgrades being available for normal ships. The key is to make them feel earned. In ESR you could just dump huge amounts of money (that could be earned in a tedious and uninteresting manner) into a ship and go kill god with it. This did not feel good as you could do it without leaving your starting system at all, which is boring.
Since Starsector is first and foremost about combat, any upgrade to your power that you get through combat feels significantly more validated (basically New Vegas perks that you get for defeating a number of specific enemies).
I propose that these upgrades should become available by cannibalising the original ships. Par example: you want to install Advanced Flux Conduits on an Eagle. You get yourself the perk to be able to recover automated ships and go kill some Remnants, recover some Brilliants and then convert them into an upgrade for your Eagle. The Sector is degrading technologically, thus the cannibalising process is inefficient, you need more than one ship of the same class in order to achieve the same result. The automated ships perk shows that you are proficient enough to even attempt that. Then you can decrease the number of ships you need via engineering skills (the more you have, the less ships you need to succeed).
The derelicts don't have capitals in vanilla though. Maybe in their case a significant number of their cruisers could do the job?
Since Starsector is first and foremost about combat, any upgrade to your power that you get through combat feels significantly more validated (basically New Vegas perks that you get for defeating a number of specific enemies).
I propose that these upgrades should become available by cannibalising the original ships. Par example: you want to install Advanced Flux Conduits on an Eagle. You get yourself the perk to be able to recover automated ships and go kill some Remnants, recover some Brilliants and then convert them into an upgrade for your Eagle. The Sector is degrading technologically, thus the cannibalising process is inefficient, you need more than one ship of the same class in order to achieve the same result. The automated ships perk shows that you are proficient enough to even attempt that. Then you can decrease the number of ships you need via engineering skills (the more you have, the less ships you need to succeed).
The derelicts don't have capitals in vanilla though. Maybe in their case a significant number of their cruisers could do the job?