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Shinr

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More Weapon Mount Sizes?
« on: June 03, 2022, 04:45:56 AM »

Less of a suggestion and more of a question:

In an unlikely event that Alex decides to revamp the entire weapon mount system or do something different for an equally unlikely sequel, is there is any merit to having more of weapon mount sizes?

For example:

Ultra Light = Current lighter small weapons;
Light = Current heavier small and lighter medium weapons;
Medium = Most of current medium weapons that don't go either way;
Heavy = Current heavier medium and lighter large weapons;
Ultra Heavy = The rest of current large weapons;

On paper, one benefit to this is that it allows Alex and the Mod devs to fine tune the ship/weapon power in more granular way.

Don't know how it would turn out in practice, though.
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Drazan

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Re: More Weapon Mount Sizes?
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2022, 01:30:26 PM »

Well as this is certanly a bit complicated i think a DP only mounttype would be cool.
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Re: More Weapon Mount Sizes?
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2022, 06:34:49 PM »

There are already 3 sizes x 7 types = 21 modular mount options, plus built-ins.
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Re: More Weapon Mount Sizes?
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2022, 04:32:24 AM »

Honestly that just sounds like a pain to manage.
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Re: More Weapon Mount Sizes?
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2022, 09:42:54 AM »

There are already 3 sizes x 7 types = 21 modular mount options, plus built-ins.

on top of this, we've already got balancing levers for all of the suggested intemediate sizes (op cost, flux use, etc), the only new weapon size that I could maybe see being useful would be an "XL" size for truly silly weapons, so you can limit them to only appear on some ships or in specific situations.

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Re: More Weapon Mount Sizes?
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2022, 10:12:57 AM »

I wonder if it's easy for Alex to add those additional mount types at all. He added hybrid and the rest some time ago, but those are just half-way types between basic and universal, not something entirely new.

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Re: More Weapon Mount Sizes?
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2022, 12:55:07 AM »

there is no need for this, it makes the game more complicated, would require rebalancing a lot of things and i don't see any significant advantages it would bring

the only new weapon size that I could maybe see being useful would be an "XL" size for truly silly weapons, so you can limit them to only appear on some ships or in specific situations.
eh. Stuff like this would be basically limited to one XL mount per ship maybe two on some really big cap that specializes in it. And in those situations it's imo better to do built-ins that are tuned for the individual ship.
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