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Drones will still count as fighters in terms of skills, except you cannot choose what goes into the bays. Might as well use flight decks to let the player choose what he wants in his bays unless the drones are overpowered or otherwise special.That hullmod is for ships with built-in wings only, like Shepard and Sunder.
For some of the current ships, if I want carrier skills, I probably will end up putting that new hullmod that converts bays to storage on those ships where I do not care about their drones (Shepherd) or bays (Colossus 3, maybe double plasma Odyssey).
Oh yes finally I am more excited for this than for christmassThere might be some, Alex tends to update patchnotes once or twice.
Can you drop a hint if there's any substantial changes for colony management in the works? It's probably my fav part of the game
Just wanted to say that I've been thinking about what a midline capital might look like, and nothing too satisfying has come to mind, so: keeping an eye on this thread, with interest!There's another one http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=17221.msg271574#msg271574
He hasn't ruled out making the core elimination harder.Yes please, destroying the core should be far harder.
I hope that whatever capital ship Alex and David make, it won't rely on fighters too much.No, given how it seems to be truly unique, it'll be a phaseship.
That is the problem.Riskier should be more rewarding, no?
Black market is all profit and almost zero risks.
I do not understand your opposition to allowing players making money from legal trade.
Don't forget, there's always room for other factions attacking your companies if they get desperate.About that. An idea would be (1) the ability to host a faction without owning a world and (2) the ability to hire captains to (say) trade between various worlds, with the player receiving a cut or something of that sort. Essentially, we can imitate the Hegemony, but we can't imitate the Tri-Tachyon. This would tie into the game's dynamic economy very well too, and provide a very different experience. You could tie this in with colonies, and have the player negotiate trade deals with contacts and in some situations even receive military contracts, and this could further tie into the proposed starting phases of a colony as a mission or two.
The question is, how is this interesting mechanically, aside from being a nice roleplaying thing? Colonies have the potential to make some trouble for you (i.e. lead into combat); the specifics of this can certainly be refined, but at least the path is there. If you just hire a fleet to trade for you, is it just a "get more money over time" mechanic? The design work here would be trying to make this interesting.
This would mostly just provide more intricacy to colony building, but I could see a company of some sort be interesting. Maybe a combination of warding off pirates (perhaps through mercenaries), having to build trust with contacts, that sort of thing. It wouldn't supplant normal gameplay, just be an option with various difficulties (non-randomised, as discussed before) inherent. Then one can add the black market into the mix too. Now it is rather passive, but a large amount of good could come from a specialised intel tab, allowing the player to view their trade routes, and perhaps even the trade routes of other factions. That brings us to another application for contacts. Spies. I need to go now. Bye!
Can we please get a buff to PD?This is a good, simple alternative to my dodge mechanic proposal.
Like giving PD a modifier that increases damage to fighters and missiles but reduces damage to everything else.
