Hello!
I think prisoners are a Nexerelin thing, unless I'm totally outdated?
I think a percentage quality would be too far, but I wouldn't exactly disagree with weapon D-mods or a couple quality levels (ie low-grade and high-grade effecting their stats). However, I'd rather the personality of combat be focused on ships and officers, which I think the next update is going to do far better at. It just seems to me that it would be too specific if each weapon had its own percentage efficiency, when at the end of the day that single weapon's quality will not be making a substantial difference in battle or tipping the favour.
I partially agree with more weapons. It would take a lot of time to test their efficacy because they have so many combinations and can be massed easily, even large mounts. Like above, I'd prefer focus on ships and officers and the like, but if more weapons were added, I have only one request: large missile atropos. Nothing turns me on more than seeing eight of those yellow suckers rain down upon an Onslaught's (now horrifically disfigured) armour.
Absolutely agree with the market. I think it would work better as a structure, because its use is pretty much purely QoL for my colony and not really needed (though I think next update Commerce will also boost income by a chonky percentage, so I'm not worried about Commerce's future).
The 'behind enemy fleet' idea sounds neato, but I don't think it should be based off of positioning on the map, but rather some ability or another used before encountering the enemy fleet. For example, 'Go Dark' and jump on an enemy, you could deploy on the sides (as their fleet spawns from the top so your flank would be squished if it came from that direction). Or (and I got this from another thread I think) an officer skill that allows their piloted ship to be deployed on the sidelines. It would be awesome to have some skirmishing ships harass an enemy's flank, or have an entire line of officer'd (?!) ships slam into their flank like a line of cavalry!
I'm hoping for a more cluttered battlefield. I don't need defensive deployments or anything, but whenever I find myself fighting such a large battle that chunks of dead ships are blocking shots and getting used as cover by the remarkable AI, I can't help but wish that I could see that kind of thing more often, without having to fight three enemy fleets at a time. Even just larger asteroids to head-bonk a frigate would be nice!
Something tells me this was attempted in the past but had a lot of missile usage and pathing difficulties, so understandable if it is outside of scope! (not that I understand anything about scope of the other requests...)
