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Author Topic: automatic DTC to ITU upgrade  (Read 631 times)

pairedeciseaux

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automatic DTC to ITU upgrade
« on: February 10, 2021, 01:42:40 PM »

I don’t know, maybe it is a silly idea. Let us say it is a small QoL idea. Nothing fancy. Mmm, ‘kay?

Across all Starsector campaigns I have played, there was (at least) one common boring-because-uselessly-repetitive player fleet progression step.
  • I have a fleet with various ships, including cruisers and maybe capitals, most of those larger non-pure-carrier ships have DTC (Dedicated Targeting Core hullmod).
  • I eventually obtain ITU (Integrated Targeting Unit hullmod).
  • I manually replace all (non built-in) DTC by ITU in my fleet.

So, what about an automatic DTC to ITU upgrade? (limited to non built-in DTC, of course)

Once player fleet reaches a market? Or immediately once ITU is learned, whether at a market or "outside"?

A silent upgrade? Or small notification?

Only ships in current fleet? Ships in storage too?

To put this into perspective, I should mention that I play rather short campaigns. So I do the manual upgrade much more often than someone who plays long campaigns, play time being otherwise equal.

Also, looking at this, I am assuming DTC and ITU will - in the future - keep their existing respective roles, and their existing relationship to one-another.
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Re: automatic DTC to ITU upgrade
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2021, 02:16:07 PM »

Can't hurt could it? Seems like a reasonable suggestion to me.
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Re: automatic DTC to ITU upgrade
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2021, 02:19:06 PM »

Along similar lines, it'd be nice if DTC stopped showing up in the hullmods list once I can install ITU instead.
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Re: automatic DTC to ITU upgrade
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2021, 04:58:57 PM »

This would be a nice little QOL feature yeah.
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Re: automatic DTC to ITU upgrade
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2021, 06:18:03 PM »

I think it would be better if DTC wasn't ITU, but worse. But if DTC remains as such, this feature would be nice.
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