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[Faiter119]

I am no modder myself. But i do have i few ideas i would LOVE to see modded into this awesome game. I will share one of them and maybe someone will find it interesting and will maybe make a mod out of it!

My idea is like this: Change the game from a space game, to a 17th century naval game. Imagine making ships like small 4 gun frigates, all the way up to 100 gun dreadnoughts. How awesome wouldn't that be!

I also imagine it being quite easy, make the campaign background into a sea, and the stations to ports and BAM! You have an awesome 17th century naval game!

Anyone else than me like the sound of this?

[rada660]

the problem is the drafting that space ship can do by holding down Shift and press a or d

[Erick Doe]

Naval ships can still 'draft'... (although big naval ships with a fixed keel wouldn't draft much)  The real issue is that there's no wind (draft with the wind). The ship would be able to go in any direction, really.

So, if not having to deal with wind is no issue, then 'drafting' shouldn't really be an issue either.

Ship with a fixed keel:


Ship with a retractable keel and flat bottom, allowing it do drift sideways:

[PCCL]

apparently age-of-sail style broadsides don't fare well with the AI...

[Upgradecap]

apparently age-of-sail style broadsides don't fare well with the AI...

But would be very satisfying once used properly


I'd like to make Sure that the ships have little or no armour, high hull, but that the cannons do medium to little damage, depending on size

[CrashToDesktop]

I find it funny how I mentioned this idea a few months ago and everyone hated it.

[Upgradecap]

I find it funny how I mentioned this idea a few months ago and everyone hated it.

Because it was mentioned a few months ago?

[Spiketail118]

not only a would a 17th century mod be fun but it would also be fun to add ships all the way up to ower current ships

[CrashToDesktop]

Anyways, I'd still like to see a mod like this.
See some epic Napoleon-style battles!

[TheHappyFace]

well to fix all problems from above you can always make it 17 century THEMED.
like in fantasy style ,since fantasy style can have al kinds of oddities (its fantasy!)
you could still give ships a good amount of draft, a shield, energy weapons etc....
or if you are really lazy. you can always make a faction with 17 century inspired boats.
which is funny since i allready posted that idea just a couple of days ago.

[Aratoop]

The ships should be like the slower fights mod (I beleive vandala has that up in one of his collections) and the weapons like actual cannons (many on one side, large damage but extremely slow fire rate) and it'll be awesome

[Pelly]

Not necessarily "slow reload" in the 17th century they could shoot depending on the calibre and movement around 2-3 shots a minute. So if we find out the time in Starfarer, say a second an hour it would be a minuscule amount of time to reload, so the shooting would be relatively quick, though you would have to decrease the shooting range to compensate and maybe increase ramming damage to represent the brittleness of wood/ boarding action which could also mean more casualties are taken.

Sorry if I have gone on a bit. But I hope this helps.

[Upgradecap]

In the starfarer battles, one minute is not one hour, it is in fact, real-time there.

[KriiEiter]

Why not just make the horizontal acceleration almost nil?  Then you have no problem with drafting.

[MrDavidoff]

Least thing I would wish to do, would be to hurt someones feelings.. but this idea is just... wrong   

You can play a Total War game for that period warfare, naval warfare...

This is Starfarer.. notice the STARss at the beginning.. its just weird, to go for a 17 century era... then again I saw flying tanks in space on these forums.. (and space ponies..and space bones.. )

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Uhm, nevermind, forget I said anything...