I am still confused about this Elon Musks neuralink hullmod/skill, especially the "your ship is blown up but you still get to remotely pilot" part, but hey. At least I have chicken 30 OP operations center s-kite. (In the future update. I hope)
you know this made me realize that neurolink is going to be one of those skills/mods that gives in to capital creep bc the ability to neorolink between your favorite frigates is effectively worthless when compared to the ability to neurolink between capitals. like, my meta fleet screams out for something like neurolink; i like to run a lot of torpedo frigates, pilot one like a mad person until I've fired its racks empty then swap to a new one. There is literally not a single thing in the game that could improve that meta for me more than a skill that lets me swap instantly between frigates, if it werent for the fact that it has been made only useful for capital ship metas by being restricted to 1 ship. Maybe this'll be something I have to take up with a modder but if the hullmod scaled by hull size, like only 8 neurolink points allowed (not counting flagship) with hull sizes costing 1/2/4/8 neurolink points each, it would be perfect for me
this would be cool
atm you have to bring in reinforcement frigates as you retreat the depleted ones
theres a mod that makes that process much easier; its the automated commands mod & i make sure all my kite variants have the free "retreat when missiles are empty" hullmod on them & it makes piloting a strike frigate fleet so much nicer
edit: does noerolink mean it would theoretically be possible to have a ship a player can pilot with a special builtin hullmod that precludes it (or the fleet its in) from having neorolink, that splits into two ships that are nerolinked together so the player can control them as simultaneously as is possible, and/or maybe link back together into 1 ship? when are we getting a pair of auroras bolted together to make 1 symmetrical superaurora
edit edit: okay but for serious this time; what if the tempest had its 2 drones with 1 ir & pd laser replaced with 1 drone with 2 ir & 2 pd lasers with double the stats that's very slightly smaller than the smallest vanilla frigate & the tempest got a ship system that allows you (if ur piloting it) to hotswap between the tempest & its drone (& if ur not piloting it, it at least lets an AI officer give both their piloting skills and also their carrier skills to both ships)? What if we turned the tempest into a frigate-carrier that can
benefit itself from its own carrier skills? The ship already feels like being bolted by your brain stem into a machine that outpaces the human capacity to pilot it, why not take that a little further & turn it into literally a pair of ships that literally exceeds the human capacity to pilot both at the same time?
edit edit edit: what if there was a destroyer/cruiser that's as bad at fighting as a gemini, whose Bit is that instead of mounting LRMs & fighters to keep it out of the fight, it slung a drone frigate on a launcher that it can use to deploy that frigate into an enemy's blindspot via a long ranged torpedo that passes over enemies as if they were friends until triggered to release the frigate that the player can then pilot until it dies/they recall themselves back to the deploying ship? And then
that ship's ship system is termination sequence that allows it to, if it survives long enough after deployment, end its deployment by accelerating wildly & slamming into whatever is in front of it doing heavy damage in the process & sending player control back to the deploying ship
edit edit edit edit: what if there was a astral-like carrier designed around strike craft whose ship system deploys a drone that the pilot hotswaps into, & the drone's Bit is that instead of having (useful) guns itself all of the fighters under that carrier's command get locked into flying with the drone & the drone gains control of all of their guns as if they were turrets, with all of each fighter wing's guns being their own firing groups with duplicate wings getting lumped together?. And the drone's ship system is fighter recall which recalls itself back into the carrier along with the strike craft, returning the player to the carrier in the process? And by astral-like I mean what if the astral was that, instead of a slow RTS ship that u never have reason to actually helm, it is now a cool fast strike ship that lets you pilot 30 bombers at once
someone call the fire brigade, my brain is lit up rn
